Prominent Planners
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| Hippodamus | 5 B.C | Introduced order and regularity into the planning of cities, which were intricate and confusing. His schemes consisted of series of broad, straight streets, intersecting one another at right angles.
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| Benjamin Banneker | 1731-1806 | Kown for his scientific skills, spirit of pioneering and contribution to the establishment of the nation's capitol. In 1791, he was asked by Major George Ellicott to help survey the "Federal Territory," now Washington, D.C.
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| Pierre L'Enfant | 1754-1852 | Responsible for the design of Washington, D.C. Through the use of long avenues joined at key points marked by important buildings or monuments, the U.S. capital city is a symbolic representation of power radiating from a central source.
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| Baron Haussmann | 1809-1891 | French civic planner associated with the rebuilding of Paris.
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| Frederick Law Olmsted | 1822-1903 | Founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker. Designed Central Park in New York City (1858-1876) and started the City Beautiful Movement in US.
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| Camillo Sitte | 1843-1903 | Best known for his book "City Planning According to Its Artistic Principles" from 1889. He advocated curving or irregular street alignments to provide ever-changing vistas. He pointed out the advantages of what came to be know as "turbine squares"
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| Daniel Burnham | 1846-1912 | Prepared The Plan for Chicago, which is considered the nation's first example of a comprehensive planning document. Also famous for his quote: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood"
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| Jacob August Riis | 1849-1914 | Authored two books that looked at life in the slums of New York: How the Other Half Lives (1890) and Children of the Poor (1892). This led to federal investigation of slum conditions & to changes in New York's housing laws that became national laws.
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| Patrick Geddes | 1854-1932 | Founders of modern town and regional planning
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| Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. | 1870-1957 | First President of American City Planning Institute in 1917. He was one of the moving figures in establishing the National Planning Conference and was its president from 1910 to 1919.
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| Clarence Arthur Perry | 1872-1944 | Father of the "Neighborhood Unit Concept," - self-contained residential area bounded by major streets, with shops at the intersections and a school in the middle. Published - Housing for the Mechanic Age (1939) and "Regional Survey of New York and its Env
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| Alfred Bettman | 1873-1945 | Instruemental in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty. Served on the Committee to draft the Standard City Planning and Zoning Enabling Acts in 1924 and 1928. He also drafted the Tennessee Zoning & Planning Enabling Statutes (1935).
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| Clarence Stein | 1882-1975 | Collaborated with Wright on the design of Radburn, New Jersey (1928-32), a garden suburb noted for its superblock layout. Stein wrote Toward New Towns for America (1951).
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| Catherine Bauer | 1905-1964 | Commited to improving housing for low-income families. Her book "Modern Housing", published in 1934, is regarded as a classic.
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| Ian McHarg | 1920-2001 | True pioneers of the environmental movement. He published his landmark book, Design With Nature, in 1969. he is arguably the most important landscape architect since Frederick Law Olmsted.
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| Paul Davidoff | 1930-1984 | Founded the Suburban Action Institute in 1969 that challenged exclusionary zoning in the courts, winning a notable success in the Mt. Laurel case. Developed the concept of "advocacy planner."
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