Planned Community Archives collection 1960-2009

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Planned Community Archives collection 1960-2009

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The collection consists of a variety of materials relating to planned communities across the United States with a particular emphasis on the planned community of Reston, Virginia, and international communities as well. The collection includes, correspondence, reports, promotional material, community brochures, newspapers, videotapes, slides, photographs and architectural drawings and blueprints. The collection is divided into 11 series in 351 boxes and 3 mapcases and is dated from 1960 to 2009.

175.5 linear feet; 351 boxes)

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George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6333207

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Pennino, Martha, 1918-2004

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Born in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1918, Martha Pennino was called the Mother of Fairfax for her long service to the county. She was one of the longest-serving members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, spending 24 years on the board. She was first elected in November 1967, representing what was then the Centreville District. She served as vice chairman for a total of 17 years. In 1985, Pennino won the Tom Bradley Regional Leadership Award. In giving her this honor, the National Association ...

Simon, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1914-

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Robert E. Simon, Jr., was born in New York City in 1914. After graduating from Harvard, Simon took over the family real estate management and development business. In 1961, with the proceeds from the sale of a family property, Carnegie Hall, Simon purchased 6,750 acres of land in Fairfax County, Virginia, which would become Reston, Virginia. Reston is now recognized as the foremost Planned Community in the United States. Simon's Planned Community, or new town, emphasized the quality of life for ...

Planned Community Archives, Inc.

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The era of new town development in the United States, which is of special interest to Planned Community Archives (PCA), begins with the Greenbelt towns developed by the federally sponsored Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The next major new town development was Reston, Virginia, in 1962. Since that time, at least thirty-eight planned communities have been developed throughout the United States. Thirteen of these communities were sponsored by th...

Nicoson, William.

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