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'New Deal Utopias' rediscovers Roosevelt's forgotten Greenbelt Towns

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Executed over the course of five years, Jason Reblando's documentary photo project "New Deal Utopias" focuses on three towns built in the 1930s as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. The "Greenbelt Towns" (Greenbelt, Maryland; Greenhills, Ohio; and Greendale, Wisconsin) were manufactured communities meant to provide efficient working environments for those hit hard by the Great Depression.…

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