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AICP Landmark Planners and Authors

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show The "Father of Zoning". Helped shape Standard City Enabling Act 1928.  
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show Cincinnati Lawyer. Played a key role in Cincinnati Plan (1925), Euclid v. Amber (1926).  
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Burnham, Daniel Hudson (1846-1912)   show
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show His "White City" at the Columbian Expo inspired the "City Beautiful Movement", and his Chicago Plan (1909) gave birth to modern city planning.  
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show Founded the Suburban Action Institute in 1969, whose members challenged exclusionary zoning in the courts, winning in the Mt. Laurel case. Developed the concept of the "advocacy planner".  
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Geddes, Patrick (1854-1932)   show
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Howard, Ebenezer (1850-1928)   show
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Jacobs, Jane   show
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show San Francisco - served as the coordinator for housing, planning, and development. Wrote "The Urban General Plan".  
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show Plan for Washington DC - made use of grid pattern, axials, and circles.  
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show Author of "Image of the City". "Historically, public opinion has favored development almost irrespective of the cost of the environment".  
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show Wrote "Design with Nature". Father of Modern Ecology/Environmental Movement. Proposed the use of transfer of development rights (TDR) to preserve landscape. Renowned for his advocacy of ecological planning and for the layered mapping techniques.  
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Mumford, Lewis   show
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Olmsted, Fredrick Law, Sr. (1822-1903)   show
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show Designer of Forest Hills Gardens and Palos Verdes Estates. Played important role in shaping Standard City Enabling Act 1928  
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show Promoter of the neigborhood unit concept. Author of "Housing for a Mechanic Age, Regional Survey of New York and Environs" (1929).  
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show His model company town, he tried to combine the industrialist's need for efficiency with the worker's need for decent housing.  
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show Used photography and writing to reveal the terrible conditions of the urban poor in "How The Other Half Lives" (1890) and "Children of the Poor" (1892). Led to the first federal investigation of slums and to changes in NYC's housing laws.  
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show Influential in citizen planning. Helped found the Ohio Planning Conference, the 1st statewide citizen based group (1919). Won legislative support for planning enabling laws, zoning and subdivision regs, and public housing (1920-30's).  
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Simkhovitch, Mary K. (1867-1950)   show
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show Co-designer of Radburn, NJ. Member of Regional Plan Association of America (RPAA).  
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show Wrote "Modern Housing". She attributed the lack of low cost housing to the liberal intellectuals, trade unions, and planners. Considered a key housing reformer of the 20th Century.  
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show Wrote "Regional Surby of New York and Environs" (1929)  
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Wright, Frank Lloyd   show
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Howard, Ebenezer   show
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McHarg, Ian   show
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Riis, Jacob   show
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Jacob, Jane   show
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Lynch, Kevin   show
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show Wrote "The Culture of Cities" (1938)  
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show Wrote "Cities in Evolution" (1915)  
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show Wrote "Ladder of Citizen Participation"  
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show Developed the design feature "Transit Oriented Developments" (TOD's).  
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Saul Alinksy (1909-1972)   show
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show Organizational methods: empowerment (start where people live); nonideological pragmatism=concrete interests of community; conflict tactics=any means justify the end  
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Robert Moses (1888-1981)   show
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