Important People Flashcards
(20 cards)
Saul Alinsky
Community organizing
Back of the yards neighborhood (1930s)
Rules for Radicals (1971)
Paul Davidoff
Founded the Suburban Action Institute in 1969. Developed concept of Advocacy Planning (1950’s-1980’s).
Sherry Arnstein
A Ladder of Citizen Participation (1969)
Alfred Bettman
Cincinnati lawyer who drafted the bill passed by Ohio in 1915 which enabled the creation of local planning commissions. First president of ASPO founded in 1934.
Played key role in establishing constitutionality of zoning in Euclid v. Ambler (1926).
Daniel Burnham
Father of City Planning in U.S. Well known for 1909 Plan for Chicago which gave birth to modern city planning. Inspired City Beautiful Movement with “White City” Colombian Expo.
“Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
Patrick Geddes
British biologist and sociologist. Author of the Cities in Evolution. Considered the father of regional planning.
Ebenezer Howard
Founded Garden City Movement. Published Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898) starting the Garden City Movement. Reissued as Garden Cities of Tomorrow (1902).
Jane Jacobs
Author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961).
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Designed the plan for Washington D.C. Made us of grid pattern, axials, and circles.
Kevin Lynch
Professor at MIT and author of Image of the City.
“Historically, public opinion has favored development almost irrespective of the cost of the environment. Our laws and institutions…reflect a pre-development bias.”
Ian McHarg
Father of Modern Ecology/Environment Movement. Wrote Design with Nature. Renowned for advocacy of ecological planning and for the layers mapping techniques that created foundation for GIS.
1962 plan for four contiguous Maryland river valleys which proposed first transfer of development rights (TDR).
Robert Moses
Know as Great Expediter. Leading person on city planning in the 1920’s replacing Burnham. Heavily shaped New York region, oversaw construction of more that 400 miles of parkways.
“If the ends don’t justify the means, what the hell does.”
Lewis Mumford
Authored the Culture of Cities (1938) which inspired city and regional planning efforts in America. Outspoken critic of the Regional Plan of NY (1929).
Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.
Co-designer of Central Park, NY and Riverside, IL. Site planner for the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
Planner for both public and private uses. First president of the American City Planning Institute. Designer of Forest Hills Gardens and Palos Verdes Estates. Played an important role in shaping Standard City Enabling Act of 1928.
Clarence Perry
Father of the Neighborhood Unit Concept. Author of Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs (1929).
George Pullman
Railroad tycoon and inventor of Pullman railroad car. Model company town (Pullman, Illinois) tried to combine the industrialist’s need for efficiency with the worker’s need for decent housing. Experiment failed because Pullman tried to regulate the project during the depression of the 1890s.
Jacob Riis
Used photography and writing to reveal the terrible conditions of the urban poor in the US. Author of How the Other Half Live (1890) and Children of the Poor (1892). These books led to first federal investigation of slum conditions and to changes in New York’s housing laws that later became national models.
Leading housing reformer in the history of American City Planning.
Clarence Stein
Co-designer of Radburn, NJ. Member of the Regional Plan Association of American (RPAA). Chaired the New York Commission of Housing.
Catherine Bauer Wurster
Interest in housing and social planning. Authored Modern Housing (1934). Played major role in passage of the Housing Act of 1937.
