Posted June 29, 200915 yr One of three federally-constructed greenbelt villages... Community building Those used to be windows Community pool Shopping center Community green Housing... The federal government acquired 5,930 acres for the project: 530 for the village itself, 2,045 for the greenbelt (Winton Woods), and 3,400 for an agriculture belt. Unfortunately, the agricultural property was sold off for Forest Park, one of Cincinnati's most dismal suburbs.
June 29, 200915 yr Thanks! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 29, 200915 yr Great post. There is an older post about Greenhills floating around here that I seem to remember.. It's always great to see it. Most of the buildings in Greenhills are one of a kind (well, there are 3 "greenbelt towns" but, almost one of a kind..). It's a shame some of the houses/apartment blocks are being torn down and replaced with modular homes...
June 29, 200915 yr These "greenbelt" villages aren't so green (all cars, no bikes) and they're ugly. Thanks for taking the effort, though!
June 30, 200915 yr These "greenbelt" villages aren't so green (all cars, no bikes) and they're ugly. Thanks for taking the effort, though! Greenhills accomodates bikes and pedestrians well enough, but its lack of density and mixed uses encourages automobile use. While I would not use the term ugly, I do agree that parts are not all that pretty. Some bits are quite quaint, however; I would take it over modern suburbia anyday.
July 1, 200915 yr I actually like Greenhills. It's surrounded entirely by Winton Woods, and is pretty self contained, which is kind of charming. I also don't think Forest Park is all that bad, and certainly wouldn't call it one of the most dismal.
July 2, 200915 yr was this community started in the 20s/30s? Its just hard to believe that a community out in western Ohio just popped up.
July 2, 200915 yr ^ It was constructed during the Great Depression by the government, with the intention being relocating people from urban slums to rural, small town like communities that were close enough to major cities to take advantage of them. An early example of suburbanization, really. While it isn't very mixed use today, it was designed to be a modernist small town, and be mostly self sufficient. The current tenants in the shopping center aren't varied enough to fill the purpose, though, and close proximity of large scale retail is ther reason for that; when the town was built there weren't any shopping centers around. Greenhills "town center" is also a very early example of a strip mall. The modernist designers of the town thought it would be a nice alternative to the main streets of older rural towns.
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