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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Thomas Adams | General Manager of Letchworth (garden City); Scotch journalist |
| Saul Alinsky | Back of Yards movement; advocacy planning; vision of planning centered on community organizing; wrote rules for radicals |
| Sherry Arnstein | wrote Ladder of Participation (1969), which divided public participation and planning into 3 levels: non-participation, tokenism, and citizen power |
| Harland Bartholomew | first full-time municipally employed planner;St. Louis; developed many early comp plans. Owned a consulting firm |
| Edward Bassett | – authored 1916 NYC zoning code |
| Edward Bennett | plan for San Francisco (1904); worked with Burnham on 1909 plan of Chicago. After Burnham died he had to implement it |
| Alfred Bettman | first comprehensive plan Cincinnati; filed an amicus curiae brief in support of Euclid and comprehensive zoning; 1st president of ASPO |
| Daniel Burnham | – city beautiful movement; White City Chicago’s world fair; 1909 plan for Chicago (applied principles of monumental city design and City Beautiful Movement) |
| HWS Cleveland | The city is part of the country and vice versa – environmental planner and landscape architect prior to olmstead |
| Ebanezer Howard | – garden city movement (to overcome social inequalities and economic inefficiencies of urban areas); author of Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898 |
| George Perkins Marsh | – author of Man and Nature (1864), explored destructive impact of human action on environment and encouraged conservation and restoration; book was first American text of environment land use planning and inspired conservation movement. |
| Ian McHarg | conservation design, author of Design with Nature (1969); predecessor of the overlay of layers used in modern GIS; big user of land suitability analysis |
| Frederick Law Olmstead Sr. | – Central Park; believed that the city plan should include all land uses (both public and private) and should be updated often to ensure they remain relevant; designed riverside, IL (natural drainage contour development, extensive use of open space) |
| Frederick Law Olmstead Jr. | – first president of the American City Planning Institute; prepared numerous plans (Detroit, Utica, Boulder, New Haven, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Newport) |
| Gifford Pinchot | America’s 1st professionally trained forester; first director of US Forest Service (1905); leader in conservation movement |
| John Wesley Powell | authored Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States (1878. plan enables settlement of the west while conserving water resources. First to author policy anchored in the capability of the land, opposed to just doling the land out in parcels |
| Calvert Vaux | designed NY’s Central Park, and Riverside IL (natural drainage contour development, extensive use of open space) with Frederick Law Olmstead Sr. in 1851 |
| Lawrence Veiller | first full-time housing reformer in America; founder of the National Housing Association; led effort to improve tenement conditions wrote “the new law” requiring permits for building housing |
| Clarence Stein | Co-architect of Radburn (America’s first garden city) with Henry Wright |
| Pierre L’Enfant | – original plan for Washington DC |
| Le Corbusier | – radiant city (skyscrapers for high density living and working, surrounded by commonly owned park space), superblocks, separated uses |
| Andres Duany | – advocate for new urbanism; designed Seaside FL in 1982 |
| Joel Garreau | wrote Edge City in 1991, edge city is a distinct place that has at least 5 mil sq ft of office, 600,000 sq ft of retail and more jobs than bedrooms; looked nothing like a city 30 years prior; perceived to be one place |
| Robert Lang | authored Edgeless Cities in 2002, dominant urban form having large, isolated, suburban office complexes that are inaccessible by pedestrians and transit |
| James Oglethorpe | – founder of the colony of Georgia; design for Savannah, complex gridiron with a main axis and interlinking gardens and squares |
| Paulo Soleri | advocate for building mega-structures that are partially underground leaving nature relatively undisturbed; “arcology” – architecture coherent with ecology. Arcosanti Arizona is his major development project |
| Louis Wirth | authored Urbanism as a Way of Life (1938); argued for urbanism and claimed density of cities influences behaviors in city including undesirable weakening of family and kinship. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | – early advocator of sprawling, decongested, auto-oriented development; authored Disappearing City (1932), which presented concept of Broadacre City (each home situated on an acre or more, each house has auto) |
| Rexford Tugwell | headed US Resettlement Administration (New Deal)Greenbelt Cities “go just outside the city centers of population, pick up cheap land, build a whole community, and entice people into them. Then go back in to the cities and make parks out of slums. |
| Clarence Perry | neighborhood unit concept, size determined by catchment area of a school; published concept in New York City and its Environs in 1929; “the automobile menace” led to design arterial streets to carry all through traffic and internal streets exlude cars. |
| Jacob Riis | – housing activist in NYC; wrote How the Other Half Lives in 1890 and Children of the Poor (social reform) documented life of poverty stricken. |
| Amitai Etziono | – founder of the communitarian movement (balance between rights and responsibilities and autonomy and order); authored the Spirit of Community |
| Norman Krumnolz | Cleveland’s planning director (1969 – 1979); strong proponent of equity in planning |
| Paul Davidoff | father of advocacy planning; argued planners should not be value-neutral public servant, but should represent special interest groups |
| James Rouse | design for Colombia Maryland; pioneered development of indoor shopping malls; rejuvenated several dying downtowns by introducing festival marketplaces (Fanueil Hall - Boston, Inner Harbor - Baltimore, South Street Seaport – NYC) |
| James Howard Kunstler | wrote the Geography of Nowhere, which provides a history of suburbia and urban development; leading proponent of new urbanism; recently wrote The Long Emergency, dealing with declining oil production and the end of industrialized society |
| Charles Lindblom | wrote the Science of Muddling Through; incremental planning, which acknowledged that changes are made in increments |
| William Whyte | promoted use of environmental psychology and sociology in urban design; wrote Social Life of Small Urban Spaces in 1980; coined the term “greenway” in his book the Last Landscape; pioneer on conservation easements |
| Allan Jacobs | authored Making City Planning Work (1985) what it takes to change American cities;"Great Streets" (1995), qualities and quantities of features that characterize great streets (e.g. height of buildings, interesting facades, windows, street trees, etc.. |
| Ernest Burgess | Concentric ring theory (1925) – urban areas grow in a series of concentric rings outward from CBD |
| Homer Hoyt | Sector theory (1939) – urban areas develop in sectors along communication and transportation routes |
| Harris and Ullman | Multiple Nuclei Theory (1945) – urban areas grow around a number of separate nuclei, which are specialized and differentiated |
| William Alonso | – Land Rent curve, bide rent theory (1960) – cost of land, intensity of development and concentration of population decline as you move away from CBD |
| Alrede Keinus | - historic preservation, wrote With Heritage so Rich in 1966 |
| TJ Kent | – author of the Urban General Plan in 1964, classic textbook on history, purpose, scope, clients and use of comp plans |
| Rachel Carson | – brought attention to the negative effects of pesticides on the environment with her book Silent Spring written in 1962 |
| Jane Jacobs | critically looked at planners and planning, particularly the mistakes of urban renewal in her book Death and Life of Great American Cities written in 1961; advocated for mixed uses, short blocks, pedestrian-scale safety with eyes on the street |
| Kevin Lynch | defined basic concepts within the City (paths, edges, nodes, districts); wrote the Image of the City in 1960 |
| F Stuart Chapin | wrote Urban Land Use Planning in 1957 (common textbook on land use planning) |
| Ladislas Segoe | wrote Local Planning Administration in 1941 (first in the Greenbook series) |
| Nelson Lewis | wrote Planning of the Modern City in 1916 |
| Patrick Geddess | – father of regional planning; wrote Cities in Evolution in 1915 |
| Flavel Shurtleff | – wrote Carrying Out the City Plan in 1914 (1st major planning textbook) |
| Walter Moody | – wrote Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago in 1912 (used as a textbook for 8th graders) |
| George Haussmann | – (baron Haussmann)19th century plan for Paris |
| Jonh Friedman | – transactive theory; promoted a radical planning model based on “decolonization”, “democratization”, “self-empowerment” and “reaching out”. Friedman described this model as an “agropolitan development” paradigm |
| Herbert Simon | concept of Satisficing (decision-making strategy attempting to meet criteria for adequacy, rather than an optimal solution) |
| Edward Kaiser | – co-authored Urban Land Use Planning; land use strategies for hazard mitigation and environmental protection; quality of local land use plans |
| John Muir | – founded Sierra Club in 1892 to promote protection and preservation of environment |
| John Logan and Harvey Molotch – | City as a Growth Machine Theory (1987), urban development is directed by elite members of community who control resources and benefit from development; book “Urban fortunes” |
| Charles Mulford Robinson and George Kessler | – designed Denver’s parks and parkways system in 1906 |
| Robert Moses | – influenced development of state parks and parkways in NY; helped establish the State Council of Parks in 1923. huge urban renewal guy, big proponent of automobile and roads. |
| Judith Innes | – consensus building and collaborative planning; author of JAPA article, Planning Through Consensus Building: A New View of the Comprehensive Planning Ideal (Autumn 1996) |
| Henry Wright | – designed Radburn, NJ ("town in which people could live peacefully with the automobile-or rather in spite of it") |
| Peter Drucker | created management by objectives management technique |
| Lewis Mumford | wrote "the culture of cities" |
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