What’s the best mid-century neighborhood near you?
I don’t just mean the spot with the best mid-century homes.
What’s the best neighborhood?
Now MCM houses all tend to exist near schools, parks, libraries, churches, office buildings and more from the same era.
But while the mid-century years are my absolute favorite for housing design, they weren’t always the best for urban planning.
For one thing, it kicked off our national car-centric planning era, and we’re still in it. But there are some winners.
Today I want to talk about the history and qualities of one of my favorite parts of my hometown, the University Hill Farms neighborhood. If you’re Madison local, it’s the area around Hilldale mall, and it’s great by several measures. It’s even a historic district inventoried in the National Register of Historic Places.
