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Railroad suburbs
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The Olmstead plan for Riverside. There is a proposed modern update of the plan.
At its best, the suburb is an attainable, inhabitable Arcadia in the form of a village, only a short ride from the city, where the American family can dwell in its individual house-temple. . .
E. E. Childs [the sponsor of Riverside, outside Chicago, in the 1870s] and his designers were convinced that an ideal suburb offered not only the pleasures of rural retreat but also the convenience of all the latest advances in public utilities and transportation and the conviviality of a community to which city dwellers had become accustomed. Stern 1986, 125, 134