Key Planning Figures

Question 2

Charles Abrams

Answer 2

NY Housing Authority. The City is the Frontier (1965) - critical of slum clearance, urban renewal, public housing.

Question 3

Thomas Adams

Answer 3

Garden City movement. Manager of Letchworth, U.K.

Question 4

Saul Alinsky

Answer 4

1930s-40s. Community organizing. Chicago. Reveille for Radicals (1946).

Question 5

Sherry Arnstein

Answer 5

1969 - Ladder of Citizen Participation

Question 6

Daniel Burnham

Answer 6

1909 Plan of Chicago. City Beautiful. 1893 Columbian Exposition. “Make no little plans.”

Question 7

Rachel Carson

Answer 7

Silent Spring (1962)

Question 8

Robert Moses

Answer 8

1930s-50s. New York. Large-scale public works.

Question 9

John Nolen

Answer 9

Planner and landscape architect. Mariemont, OH. First comprehensive plan in Florida.

Question 10

Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr.

Answer 10

Father of landscape architecture. Central Park, Riverside, IL (1868).

Question 11

Clarence Perry

Answer 11

Neighborhood Unit. Radburn, NJ. Regional Survey of New York and its Environs (1929)

Question 12

Paolo Soleri

Answer 12

Architect. Arcosanti (1970s experimental utopian city in AZ). Low impact development.

Question 13

Clarence Stein

Answer 13

Garden City Movement. Sunnyside Gardens (Queens, NY), Radburn NJ. New Town for America (1951).

Question 14

Rexford Tugwell

Answer 14

Greenbelt Cities program. Head of Resettlement Admin during New Deal.

Question 15

Sir Raymond Unwin

Answer 15

English. Letchworth. Town Planning in Practice (1909).

Question 16

Catherine Bauer Wurster

Answer 16

Modern Housing (1934). Housing reform. Housing Act of 1937.