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Each of these GREENBELT TOWNS now nearing completion is a de-
monstration of a new technique for planning a complete community of
homes . schools , stores , utilities , roads , areas for future expansion,
recreation and for farms and agricultural enterprises.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/16me “GREENBELT " is derived from a protective
belt of farmland and mods surrounding .
the town and acting as a permanent
guard against encroachment .
7mm These towns are tax paying self-support-
ing' , single ownership communities in harmo-
ny with existing local requirements and
demands of regional planning.
Pub/[c These towns have stimulated better town' plannin ' by in-
flue/mt teresting’ the general public in good housing ,wise pinning,
and desirable living conditions .

THE GREENBELT

President Roosevelt and more than one million people-state and
city officials, planning boards,architects, builders and contractors,
study groups from architectural and engineering schools,
realtors and sub-dividers prospective home owners and
renters- have visited the GREENBELT TOWNS in the past eight months.

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 6 0% of those in building trades were
UNEMPLOYED in 1934 .

, Volume 111 $
All sources
1929- 01 Billion t
1935 - "
Lossorss " $ or---- 402
ngGEONSIRUGIM '
w an 3» Private Construction
1929 "' OBillion $
n 1955 ~ 1% .. #5
LO$5J691| " $ or—--- 842.

Employment
All Classes

(Excluding Management and Agriculture)
1111955 with36 million persons
employahle, 26 ntiflion hadwork

unemployed ------- 28%

Private Construction

where in 1929 private construc.
tion had employed 2,200,000
persons, in 1935 only400,000
were employed .

Unemployed ----- 60%

RC Alltrades 20%
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Chart showing labor employed directly and through materials punrhaset.

Altcthe end of lzmontlls 8374 me]; m lg;
t weekly payroll a roximate 2
been given employing; and $13 {180,009

had been expended for materials and wages

mun“ _
my;

“:“he projects have provided 3% million
full days work by direct labor and through
purchase of materials .

 

 6 0% of those 111 building trades we: e
UNEMPLOYED m 1934-

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1929 " 55mion $
i ‘ 1935~1vq .. (a
Loss 46%. v 1» or . -- - 847.

 

 

 

 

 

All Classes

(Wag Mon-out and Agriculture)
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unemployed ------- 2.37.

W"— -4}? *7 ~~ Private Construction

0 whm in 1929 private consttuc-
h_flfi_¢ffiijgw W tion Ind employed 2,200,000
;: 1%» B'LUON '3 persons, in 1955 0101400000
were employed .

unemployed ————— 60%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘93; Alltrades 20%

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