Key Planning Figures

Question 1

Garden City movement planner and secretary of Garden City Association.

First manager of Letchworth, U.K.

Developer of several U.K. garden cities.

Taught at MIT and Harvard

Answer 1

Thomas Adams

Question 1

Created the NYC Housuing Authority.

Published “The City is the Frontier” in 1965.

Critical of U.S. federal policies surrounidng slum clearance, urban renewal, and public housing.

Answer 1

Charles Abrams

Question 2

Major communit orgnanzing planning advocate in Chicago (1930s-1940s).

“Reville for Radicals” book encouraged poor to get involved democratically.

“Rules for Radicals” book provides 13 rules for community organizing.

Answer 2

Saul Alinsky

Question 3

Wrote “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” for JAPA (1969).

Described the levels of invovlement by citizens depending on the form of participation.

Answer 3

Sherry Arnstein

Question 4

Chicago architect of City Beautiful Movement.

1893 Columbian Exposition (1/2 population saw). White City.

1909 Plan of Chicago.

“Make no small plans. They have no fire to stir men’s blood”.

Answer 4

Daniel Burnham

Question 5

“Silent Spring” author

Answer 5

Rachel Carson

Question 6

Commisioner of NYC Parks and Recreation

Manhattan highways and NYC parkways proponent.

Answer 6

Robert Moses

Question 7

Designed Mariemont, Ohio

Madison, WI park system. “X” Drive near Monona Terrace.

Landscape architect and planner.

First comprehensive plan in Florida (designed Venice, FL).

Answer 7

John Nolen

Question 8

“Father of Landscape Architecture”

Central/Prospect Parks (NYC) designer.

Riverside, IL designer (1868).

Answer 8

Frederick Law Omstead, Sr.

Question 9

Who developed the neighborhood unit concept which was implemented in Radburn, NJ?

Key contributior to the 1929 “Regional Survey of New York and its Environs”

Answer 9

Clarence Perry

Question 10

Architect that designed Arcsanti (experimental utopian city in Arizona focused on minimizing impact of development on the natural environment).

Answer 10

Paolo Soleri

Question 11

Designer of Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, NYC; Radburn, NJ; and other garden suburbs.

Promoted garden cities.

Wrote “New Town for America” (1951).

Answer 11

Clarence Stein

Question 12

Head of New Deal era Resettlement Admin.

Greenbelt Cities program.

Arthurdale, WV; NYC Planning Commission; and PR Governor.

Answer 12

Rexford Tugwell

Question 13

English town planner/designer of Letchworth

“Town Planning in Practice” (1909)

Answer 13

Sir Raymond Unwin

Question 14

Executive Secretary of Regional Planning Association of America.

Wrote “Modern Housing”

Influential in passing Housing Act of 1937

Answer 14

Catherine Bauer Wurster