Greenbelt Town

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Greenbelt Town is a planned community in Greenbelt, Maryland, originally developed as a New Deal-era federal housing project.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Greenbelt New Town 1
Greenbelt Town canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf New Deal town
federal housing project
planned community
architecturalStyle Garden city movement
Modernist architecture
country United States of America
developer Resettlement Administration
United States government
surface form: United States federal government
hasCharacteristic cooperative services tradition
curvilinear street layout
extensive communal open space
separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic
hasPart central shopping center
community center
green belt of surrounding parkland
pedestrian underpasses
superblock residential neighborhoods
heritageDesignation U.S. National Historic Landmark District
surface form: National Historic Landmark District

National Register of Historic Places
surface form: National Register of Historic Places listing
inception 1937
locatedIn Greenbelt, Maryland
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Maryland
Prince George’s County, Maryland
surface form: Prince George's County, Maryland
locatedInTimePeriod New Deal era
namedAfter green belt of surrounding parkland
partOf Greenbelt Historic District
purpose demonstration of planned community design
low-cost housing for working families
relief of Great Depression unemployment
significantEvent construction as a New Deal greenbelt town

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Greenbelt Historic District partOf Greenbelt Town
this entity surface form: Greenbelt New Town