Greenbelt, Maryland Historic District - View this location on map The 1935-46 development of Greenbelt, Maryland represents the first government sponsored, planned community in the United States built on 'garden city' principles and embodies the regional planning principles and architectural ideals of the mid-1930s. Three 'greenbelt towns' were built by Roosevelt's New Deal government along garden city lines to respond to the Depression and a housing crisis in American cities. Greenbelt, Maryland, the first and largest of the three towns, was an attempt to build a large-scale, scientifically planned suburban community that would decentralize the population of Washington, D.C. Roughly bounded by Edmonston Rd, Beltsville Agricultural Research Ctr, Baltimore-Washington Pkwy, and Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, Maryland Historical

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