People Flashcards
(58 cards)
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Charles Abrams
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- housing, anti-discrimination
- Created NY Housing and Development Administration in 1960s
- Served on state and national anti-discrimination committees
- coauthored the New York Municipal Housing Authorities Law in 1933
- Attorney for New York in New York City Housing Authority v. Muller (eminent domain for slum clearance and building public housing) in 1836
- The City is the Frontier - 1965, critical of housing policies, slum clearance, urban renewal
- “Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.”
1901-1970
early to mid 1900s
New York
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Thomas Adams
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- secretary of Garden City Association
- 1st manager of Letchworth, UK
- Taught at MIT, Harvard
- Regional Plan of New York and its Environs
UK and US
3
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Saul Alinsky
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- Community organizing advocate
- Reveille for Radicals - encouraging poor to get involved in democracy
- Rules for Radicals - provided 13 rules for community organizing
1930s-40s
Chicago
4
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Sherry Arnstein
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- community engagement/participation
- “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” - in Journal of APA - describes level of involvement of citizens in different forms of participation
1960s
5
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Daniel Burnham
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- City Beautiful
- 1893 Columbian Exposition (Chicago)
- 1909 Plan of Chicago
- “Make no little plans. They have no fire to stir men’s blood.”
- Architect
Late 1800s - early 1900s
Chicago
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Rachel Carson
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- Silent Spring
- Enrivonmental planning
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Robert Moses
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- New York City Public Works
- Expanded state parks system,
- built parks, playgrounds, highways, bridges, tunnels, public housing
- urban renewal
1930s - 1960s
New York
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John Nolen
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- Florida Comprehensive Plan
- designed Mariemont, OH; parks in Madison, WI; Venice, FL
- planner and landscape architect
1869-1937
Florida
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Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.
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- father of landscape architecture
- Central Park, Prospect Park in New York City
- Niagra Reservation
- University campus landscapes
- Riverside, IL design team
late 1800s
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Clarence Perry
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- neighborhood unit concept
- Radburn, NJ
- 1929 Regional Survey of NY and Its Environs
11
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Paolo Soleri
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- architect
- Arcosanti, an experimental utopian city in Arizona focused on minimizing the impact of development on the natural environment
12
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Clarence Stein
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- Garden Cities
- designed Sunnyside Gardens, Radburn, NJ (with Henry Wright)
- Wrote New Towns for America
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Rexford Tugwell
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- head of Resettlement Administration
- Greenbelt Cities program
- Arthurdale, WV
- NYC Planning Comission
- Governor of Puerto Rico
14
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Sir Raymond Unwin
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- English town planner
- designer of Letchworth
- University of Birmingham in England, Columbia University
- author ofTown Planning in Practice
15
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Catherine Bauer Wurster
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- founder of American housing policy
- executive secretary of the Regional Planning Association of America
- wrote Modern Housing
- influential in passing Housing Act of 1937
16
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Norman Krumholz
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- equity planning
- his office wrote 1975 Policy Planning Report that was one of the first comprehensive plans to place social policy front and center
- Planning director of Cleveland
1970s
Cleveland, OH
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Walter Moody
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- wrote Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago
18
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Flavel Shurtleff
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- wrote Carrying Out the City Plan
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Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr
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- first president of American City Planning Institute (ACPI)
- wildlife conservation
- designed Forest Hill Gardens in Queens, New York, and Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles County, California.
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Edward Bassett
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- wrote the first comprehensive zoning code (NYC)
- lawyer
- Involved in Advisory Committee on City Planning and Zoning which wrote the Enabling acts
- “Father of American Zoning”
New York
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Harland Bartholomew
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- first full-time employee for a city planning commission in Newark, NJ
- famous planning consultant
22
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Herbert Hoover
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- Standard State Zoning Enabling Act
- Standard City Planning Enabling Act
- Secretary of Department of Commerce
23
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Alfred Bettman
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- Wrote the Cincinnati Comprehensive plan (1st) along with Ladislas Segoe
- Involved in Advisory Committee on City Planning and Zoning which wrote the Enabling acts
- Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Company.
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Ladislas Segoe
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- Wrote the Cincinnati Comprehense plan (1st) along with Alfred Bettman
- wrote Local Planning Administration the first in Green Book Series
25
Jacob Riis
* *How the Other Half Lives*
* photographer
## Footnote
late 1800s
New York
26
Ebenezer Howard
* *Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform*
* garden cities
* formed Garden City Association in England
## Footnote
late 1800s - early 1900s
England
27
Patrick Geddes
* father of regional planning
* *Cities in Evolution*
* coined the concept of "region" to architectural and planning fields and the term "conurbation"
## Footnote
early 1900s
28
Nelson Lewis
* *Planning of the Modern City*
## Footnote
early 1900s
29
F. Stuart Chapin
* wrote *Urban Land Use Planning* a textbook
30
Kevin Lynch
* defines concepts such as edges and nodes in cities
* *Image of the City*
31
Jane Jacobs
* critical look at planning and urban renewal
* *The Death and Life of Great American Cities*
32
TJ Kent
* *The Urban General Plan*
33
Alfred Reins
* *With Heritage So Rich*
* historic preservation
34
Ian McHarg
* GIS
* Environmental planning and conservation
* *Design with Nature*
35
William Whyte
* environmental psycology and sociology in urban design
* *The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces*
* "Street Life Project"
* inspired the Project for Public Spaces
36
Lewis Mumford
* leader of Regional Planning Association of America along with Benton MacKaye
* garden cities
37
Benton MacKaye
* leader of Regional Planning Association of America along with Lewis Mumford
38
Henry Wright
* helped design Radburn, NJ along with Clarence Stein
* Garden Cities
39
Ernest Burgess
* concentric circle theory
* bid rent curve
* sociologist
* studied growth of Chicago
| Chicago
40
Homer Hoyt
* sector theory
* real estate business, focused on high-end residential development
* Chicago
41
Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman
* multiple nuceli theory
42
Walter Christaller
* central place theory
* german geographer
43
Rittel and Webber
concept of Wicked Problems
44
Martin Myerson and Banfield
* rational planning
* *Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest*
| 1950s
45
Herbert Simon
* coined the term "satisfice"
* bounded rationality
* argued that the "economic man" should be replaced by the "administrative man" who satisfices
46
Charles Lindblom
* incrementalism
* *The Science of Muddling Through*
| mid-1900s
47
Amitali Etzioni
* mixed scanning
* *Mixed Scanning, a third approach to decision-making*
48
Paul Davidoff
* advocacy planning
* *Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning*
49
Norman Krumholz
* equity planning
| Cleveland
50
John Friedman
* transactive planning
* *Retracking America: A Theory of Transactive Planning*
* *Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action*
51
Robert Weaver
first secretary of HUD
52
Peter Calthorpe
* urban planner, designer, and architect
* developed concept of Transit Oriented Development
* sustainability
* *The Next American Metropolis*
* (co)founded and president of the Congress for New Urbanism
53
Andres Duany
* architect and planner
* sustainable urban development and new urbanism
* designer for Seaside, FL and the traditional neighborhood development zoning ordinance
* (co)founded Congress for New Urbanism
54
Joel Garreau
* *Edge City: Life on the New Frontier*
* made the term "Edge City" popular
* journalist and author
55
Jean Gottman
* *Megalopolis*
* described northeastern US, from Boston to D.C. as one metropolitan area
* french geographer
56
Le Corbusier
* Radiant City - super blocks delineated between different uses such as housing, factories, and businesses
* architect
57
George Pullman
* designed and manufactured the Pullman railroad car
* created a compnay town - town of Pullman, IL
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Frank Lloyd Wright
* Broadacre City - low density cities away from urban areas
* architect
