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Review of Famous Planners for AICP Exam

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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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Daniel Hudson Burnham   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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Patrick Geddes   show
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show Published "Tomorrow, A Peaceful Path to Real Reform" in 1898, starting the Garden City Movement. The book was reissued in 1902 as "Garden Cities of Tomorrow"  
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Jane Jacobs   show
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T.J. Kent Jr.   show
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show Plan for Washington DC - made use of grid pattern, axials, and circles.  
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Kevin Lynch   show
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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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Lewis Mumford   show
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show Co-designer of Forest Hills and Riverside, IL. Site planner for the 1893 Columbian Exposition  
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Fredrick Law Olmsted, Jr.   show
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Clarence Arthur Perry   show
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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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Charlotte Rumbold   show
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show Organized one of the nation's first settlement houses, Greenwich House in New York. Described in her autobiography, "Neighborhood: My Story of Greenwich House  
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Clarence S. Stein   show
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Catherine Bauer   show
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Clarence Perry   show
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Frank Lloyd Wright   show
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Ebenezer Howard   show
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Ian McHarg    show
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show Wrote "How the Other Half Lives" (1890) and "Children of the Poor" (1892)  
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Jacobs, Jane   show
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show Image of the City (1960), summarizes a 5-year study on how people perceive their cities; What Time is This Place (1972), examining how time may be passed in cities and urban conservation; and Up in Cities (1977), explores how environments affect children  
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show Wrote "The Culture of Cities" (1938), The Condition of Man (1944), and The Conduct of Life (1951)  
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show Wrote "Cities in Evolution" (1915) Focus on place - Work - Folk  
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show Wrote "Ladder of Citizen Participation"  
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Peter Calthorpe   show
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Saul Alinksy   show
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show The organization uses boycotts to initiate change, a paid organizer is used to organize people and an invitation is given to members of a community to participate in the organization.  
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Robert Moses   show
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show Secretary of the Garden City Association and the 1st manager of Letchworth, England  
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show Wrote Silent Spring, focused on the negative effects of pesticides on the environment  
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show Head of the Resettlement Administration under FDR - began work on the greenbelt communities  
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show Wrote Edge City - Life on the New Frontier, 1991, about the end of central city growth, population and economic activity shifting to suburbs, and the urban secession and other autonomy struggles that arise  
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Catherine Bauer   show
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John Muir   show
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Richard Babcock   show
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William Whyte   show
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show Was associated with advocacy planning.  
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Harland Bartholomew   show
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show First president of the American Society of Planning Officals  
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show Known for theory of incrementalism in policy and decsion making as described in his work the "The Science of Muddling Through" - 1959  
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show Associated with the development of equity planning theory. Was head of Cleveland’s city planning from 1969 -1979.  
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show Introduced the concept of Satisficing  
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show Research focus is on processes of urbanization, knonw for many publications including "Planning in the public domain : from knowledge to action" (1987)  
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show Modern planning theorist - famous for work on socioeconomics and communitarianism believes individual rights and aspirations should be protected but that they should be inserted into a sense of the community  
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show Responsible for the 19th century Plan of Paris  
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Christopher Stone   show
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show Associated with Management by Objectives (MBO) - a process of agreeing upon objectives within an organization so that management and employees buy in to the objectives and understand what they are.  
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John Logan & Harvey Molotch   show
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Ernest Burgess   show
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Homer Hoyt   show
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show Major contribution to social theory of urban space was a classic essay "Urbanism as a Way of Life" interests included city life, minority group behaviour and mass media and he is recognised as one of the leading urban sociologists.  
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show A French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris, commissioned by Napoléon,spanning from 1852 to 1870. The project encompassed all aspects of urban planning  
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show Known for the "Sector Model" aka Theory of Axial Development (1939)  
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show Proposed Multi-Nuclei Model in 1945 - progressive integration of a number of separate nuclei. Nodes become specialized by attributes: accessibility, compatibility, incompatibility and sustainability.  
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show Concentric zone model with CBD in center and residential in outer zones. Pattern of “Invasion and Succession” would change pattern with inner zones pushing outer zones further out (1920s).  
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Edward J. Kaiser   show
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Randall Arendt   show
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show New Urbanist "The Geography of Nowhere" " The City in Mind" Anti Modernism, Strip Malls, & Sprawl  
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