Key Planning Figures Flashcards
(15 cards)
Charles Abrams
He created the New York Housing Authority. In 1965, he published The City is the Frontier, a book that was highly critical of U.S. federal policies surrounding slum clearance, urban renewal and public housing.
Thomas Adams
He was an important planner during the Garden City Movement. He was the secretary of the Garden City Association and became the first manager of Letchworth, UK. He developed a number of garden suburbs in England.
Saul Alinsky
He was an advocate of community organizing. Alinsky organized Chicago’r poor in the late 1930s and 1940s. In 1946, he published Reveille for Radicals, which encouraged those who were poor to become involved in American democracy. Later, he published Rules for Radicals, which provided 13 rules for community organizing.
Sherry Arnstein
Sherry wrote “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” for the Journal of the American Planning Association in 1969. This article describes the levels of involvement by citizens depending on the form of participation utilized.
Daniel Burnham
Daniel was a Chicago architect and prominent proponent of the City Beautiful Movement. He was the lead force behind the 1893 Columbian Exposition and later the 1909 Plan of Chicago.
Rachel Carson
She wrote Silent Spring. It is an important book in environmental planning.
Robert Moses
He transformed New York City’s public works from the 1930s through the 1950s. He expanded the state’s park system and built numerous parkways.
John Nolen
He designed Mariemont, Ohio and was a leading planner and landscape architect. He made substantial contributions including creating the first comprehensive plan in Florida, contributing to the park system in Madison, Wisconsin, and designing Venice, Florida.
Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr
He is considered the father of landscape architecture. He is responsible for many of the nation’s most important parks including Central and Prospect Parks in New York City, Niagra Reservation, and university campus landscape. He was part of the design team for Riverside, IL laid out in 1868.
Clarence Perry
He developed the neighborhood unit concept which was implemented in Radburn, New Jersey. He was a key contributor to the 1929 Regional Survey of New York and its Environs.
Paolo Soleri
Paolo was an architect responsible for designing Arcosanti, an experimental utopian city in Arizona focused on minimizing the impact of development on the natural environment.
Clarence Stein
He designed Sunnnyside Gardens in Queens, NY, Radburn, NJ, and many other garden suburbs in the U.S. He was a major proponent of the Garden City Movement. He wrote New Town for America in 1951.
Rexford Tugwell
He served as he head of the Resettlement Administration during the New Deal. He worked on the greenbelt cities program, which sought construction of new, self-sufficient cities. Tugwell was closely involved in the development of Arthurdale, West Virginia, a Resettlement Administration community. He later served on the New York City Planning Commission and served as governor of Puerto Rico.
Sir Raymond Unwin
He was an English town planner and designer of Letchworth. He wrote Town Planning in Practice, published in 1909.
Catherine Bauer Wurster
She was a founder of American housing policy. She worked to reform policy that was related to housing and city planning. She served as executive secretary of the Regional PLanning Association of America. She wrote Modrn HOusing and was influential in the passage of the Housing Act of 1937.
