People Flashcards
Key Planning Figures (38 cards)
Created the New York Housing Authority.
Published the City is Frontier, criticizing US federal policies on slum clearance and urban renewal.
Charles Abrams
Planner in Garden City movement.
Secretary of the Garden City Association.
First manager of Letchworth, UK.
Thomas Adams
Advocate of community organizing.
Wrote Reveille for Radicals, encouraging the poor to be involved in democracy.
Wrote Rules for Radicals, providing 13 rules for organizing.
Saul Alinksy
Wrote A Ladder of Citizen Participation for JAPA, describing the levels of involvement by citizens depending on the form of participation utilized.
Sherry Arnstein
Architect in City Beautiful movement.
Led the 1893 Columbian Exposition and later the 1909 Plan for Chicago.
“Make no little plans, they have no fire to stir men’s blood”.
Daniel Burnham
Wrote Silent Spring, discussing pesticides used in the environment.
Rachel Carson
Transformed New York’s public works from 1930s to 1950s.
Expanded the state’s park system and built numerous parkways.
Robert Moses
Self-proclaimed first planner.
Designed Mariemont, Ohio
John Nolen
Landscape Architect of the Central Park movement.
Helped in designing Riverside, IL.
Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr.
Developed the Neighborhood Unit Concept.
Worked on Radburn, NJ.
Key contributor to the 1929 Regional Survey of New York and its Environs.
Clarence Perry
Architect of Arcosanti, an experimental utopian city in AZ.
Paolo Soleri
Contributor of Garden City movement.
Designed Sunnyside Gardens (Queens, NY), Radburn, NJ.
Wrote New Town for America.
Clarence Stein
Head of Resettlement Administration during the New Deal.
Worked on greenbelt cities program that sought construction of self-sufficient cities.
Rexford Tugwell
British planner of Letchworth (Garden City movement).
Wrote Town Planning in Practice.
Sir Raymond Unwin
Founder of American housing policy.
Executive Secretary of Regional Planning Association of America.
Wrote Modern Housing.
Influential in passing the Housing Act of 1937.
Catherine Bauer Wurster
Wrote Image of the City
Kevin Lynch
Wrote the Urban General Plan, used as a key reference for comprehensive plans
TJ Kent
Wrote How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
Led the Garden City movement.
Wrote Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform
Ebenezer Howard
Father of Regional Planning.
Wrote Cities in Evolution
Patrick Geddes
Father of Zoning.
Shaped New York’s first zoning code and Standard State Zoning Enabling Act
Edward Bassett
First full-time public sector city planner in the US
Harland Bartholomew
Designed baroque-style plan for Washington DC
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Housing and public recreation activist in St. Louis
Charotte Rumbold
