Talk:Greendale, Wisconsin

I have never before heard that Greendale was a cooperative. It was designed, built and owned (until about 1953) by the federal government. Residents rented their homes until the Village's homes were privatized, (one of the linked websites says in 1949-1952). An agency called the Milwaukee Community Development Corporation (MCDC) managed the transition. As I understand it, residents had the first opportunity to purchase the homes they were renting; they could also buy other homes if those tenants chose not to purchase. Alternatively, they could buy lots in newly platted extensions of the village. (Source--my parents, who were in the second category.)

While Rexford Tugwell was indeed the head of the Resettlement Administration, which designed and built the three greenbelt towns, Elbert Peets was the head (or at least a key member) of the design team for Greendale. (Elbert Peets had co-designed, with Werner Hegemann, the Washington Highlands in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and co-authored with Hegemann Civic Art, or, The American Vitruvius.) A collection of his essays, edited by Paul Spreiregen and published around 1968 by the MIT Press, includes a number essays on the design and building of Greendale.

Eleanor Roosevelt visited the Village around the time it was completed. I am not aware that she had a hand in the design--is there a source for this? Greendaler (talk) 20:09, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

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Emphasis on Segregation
Does the first paragraph need emphasize so starkly the fact that federally constructed Greenbelt Cities were segregated while other Wikipedia subjects about American cities and cultural landmarks do no such thing? Why not include in the first paragraph how the cities provided much need housing for poor Americans during the Great Depression? Segregation was the law of the land until 1948 in the military and 1964 nationally. It seems that the paragraph as it reads is intended to make the concept of federally designed and built cities for the poor as negative as possible. This reads like a biased article, downplaying the social good these developments accomplished while emphasizing the negative. There was at least one federal resettlement that was all-black. 2600:8801:BE28:A800:14E7:16BF:589D:503A (talk) 16:27, 1 December 2022 (UTC)