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New Deal Utopias: Inside FDR’s Experiments in Planned Communities

"During the height of the Great Depression, the United States government launched an unprecedented social experiment: creating planned, federally funded suburban and rural towns known historically as New Deal utopias. Designed between 1933 and 1937, these public communities aimed to resettle impoverished families, blend agriculture with industry, and pioneer new standards in urban planning and cooperative living. What Were the New Deal Utopias? Context and Ideology The term "New Deal utopias" refers to nearly 100 planned communities built by federal agencies under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration. Facing widespread unemployment..."

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