Clarence S. Stein (1882–1975) was once an architect, housing visionary, regionalist, policymaker, and colleague of a few of the main influential public figures of the early to mid-twentieth century, together with Lewis Mumford and Benton MacKaye. Kristin E. Larsen's biography of Stein comprehensively examines his equipped and unbuilt tasks and his highbrow legacy as a proponent of the "garden urban" for a latest age. This exam of Stein’s existence and legacy makes a speciality of 4 serious subject matters: his collaborative ethic in envisioning coverage, layout, and improvement options; advertising and implementation of “investment housing;” his progressive method of group layout, as epitomized within the Radburn notion; and his advocacy of communitarian regionalism. His state of the art tasks similar to Sunnyside Gardens in big apple urban; Baldwin Hills Village in l. a.; and Radburn, New Jersey, his “town for the motor age,” proceed to encourage neighborhood designers and planners within the usa and round the world.

Stein was once one of the first architects to combine new layout suggestions and aid amenities into large-scale tasks meant essentially to accommodate working-class humans, and he used to be a cofounder of the nearby making plans organization of the US. As a planner, dressmaker, and, now and then, financier of recent housing advancements, Stein wrestled with the demanding situations of constructing what at the present time we might time period “livable,” “walkable,” and “green” groups throughout the ascendency of the auto. He controlled those demanding situations by means of partnering deepest capital with govt investment, in addition to by way of participating with colleagues in making plans, structure, genuine property, and politics.