Wildwood Park (also spelled Wildewood) is a suburban,

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that has a central green space and no front roads (only back alleys), with communal walkways, playgrounds, and parks. Nearly all of the original houses are based on five variations of three basic designs,

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in one section of the site. The site plan concept is based on the Radburn community design of architects Henry Wright and

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who advocated the idea of designing neighbourhoods for the "motor age". It varies from the original in the introduction of crescents (or loops) as the local access roads. It was developed in 1946–47 by Hubert Bird and designed by Green, Blankstein, Russell (GBR). It is well known as an early example of the Radburn pattern, which has found extensive application in the second half of the 20th century. It presages the emergence of the fused grid that uses the same principle of filtered permeability.

Governance

Wildwood Park is in the Fort Rouge–East Fort Garry city ward and the

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of Winnipeg. It corresponds to

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's census dissemination area 110466, in census tract 0503.00, within the Winnipeg census division, part of the Winnipeg

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. It comprises much of the Wildwood neighbourhood of Winnipeg, within the Fort Garry North neighbourhood cluster (according to how census data is reported for the city of Winnipeg). It is in the

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provincial electoral division (

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from 2011 to 2019) and the

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federal electoral division (

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prior to 2004). Before the unicity amalgamation in 1972, this was part of the

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References

'' 125(4). p 54. * Martin, Michael David. 2001.
Returning to Radburn
" ''Landscape Journal'' 20(2):156–75. * —— 2001. "The Landscapes of Winnipeg's Wildwood Park," ''Urban History Review'' 30(1):22–39. * —— 2002. " The Case for Residential Back-Alleys: A North American Perspective," in ''Journal of Housing and the Built Environment'' 17(2):145–71. * —— 2004.
Designing the Next Radburn: A Green-hearted American Neighbourhood for the 21st Century
, proceedings of ''Open Space/People Space: An International Conference on Inclusive Environments'', Edinburgh: Research Centre for Inclusive Access to Outdoor Environments. . * Nelson, Carl. 1985. ''Wildwood Park Study'', Ottawa:

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. * Reimer, Mavis. 1989. ''Wildwood Park Through the Years'', Winnipeg: Wildwood History Book Committee. . * Toews, Sigfried. 1973. ''A Tribute to Wildwood Park: a housing report for J. Lehrman'', Winnipeg:

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. * "Operation Integrated: Two New House Designs, Site Selection, Wildwood Park, Fort Garry" in ''Builders' Bulletin'' 10. Ottawa:

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(1948 March 6).

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The Landscapes of Winnipeg's Wildwood Park
{{WinnipegNeighbourhoods Neighbourhoods in Winnipeg Planned communities in Canada Fort Garry, Winnipeg Fort Rouge, Winnipeg

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