People in Planning

Question 1

Charles Abrams

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Created NY Housing Authority “The city is the Frontier”

Question 2

Catherine Bauer Wurster

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A founder of American policy and worked to reform policy related to housing and city planning.

Question 3

Rachel Carson

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Author of Silent Spring, a book documenting the effects of environmental pesticides.

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Robert Moses

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Transformed NYC’s public works 30’s-50’s which included highways, parks, and public housing. Clashed with Jane Jacobs to build a highway through Greenich Village

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Jane Jacobs

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Provided a critical look at planners and planning. Mistakes of urban renewal. “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”

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Charles Lindblom

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American political scientist who focused on incrementalism as a decision-making model. “The Science of Muddling Through” (1959)

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Ebenezer Howard

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“Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform” (1898) Initiated Garden City movement

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Frederick Law Olmstead Sr.

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Landscape architect who designed Riverside IL and Central Park (with Calvert Vaux)

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Clarence Perry

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Developed neighborhood unit concept implemented in Radburn NJ and key contributor to 1929 Regional Survey of NY and its Environs

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Paolo Soleri

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Architect designed Arcosanti experimental utopian city in AZ focused on minimizing impact of development on natural environment.

Question 11

Ian McHarg

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“Design with Nature” focused on conservation design using overlay technique that was later the basis for GIS

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Kevin Lynch

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“The Image of the City” (1960) Groundbreaking look at how city is viewed by its residents. Farmers also for mental mapping studies

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Charlotte Rumbold

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Early 20th century housing and public rec activist working in St. Louis.

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Le Corbusier

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Modern architect and founding member of Congress International Architecture Moderne (CIAM) which advocated for separation of land uses, highways and high rise set in parks.

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Jane Addams

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Settlement house activist. Co-founded Hull House in Chicago. Founder of social work profession. Awarded nobel peace prize in 1931. 1899 Hull House - low-income family housing

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Benton Mackaye

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Planner and conservationist who founded Appalachian Trail. Member of RPAA

Question 17

Frederick Law Olmstead Jr.

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Influential Planner and designer. Planned Forest Hills Gardens in Queens. 1st president of American City Planning Institute.

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Benjamin Marsh

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Organized 1st national meeting on planning 1909 national conference on city planning in Washington DC

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Jacob Riis

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Wrote “How the Other Half Lives” (1890) documented squalid living conditions in NYC

Question 20

Florence Kelly and Mary Simkhovitch

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Veterans of NY’s settlement house movement. Founded Committee of Population in NY to look at solutions for overcrowding.

Question 21

John Nolen

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(1869-1937) First American to identify himself exclusively as town and city planner. Designed many towns modeled after garden cities.

Question 22

Saul Alinsky

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An advocate of community organizing. Published “Reville for Radicals” (1946) encouraged poor to become involved in democracy

Question 23

Lewis Mumford

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(1895-1990) Prolific writer on urban planning topics. “The City in History” (1961) Garden city advocate and member of RPAA

Question 24

William Whyte

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“The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” (1980) Promotes the use of environmental psychology, sociology in urban design

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Architect that advocated for low-density development "Broadacre City - A New Community Plan"

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Rexford Tugwell

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Served as head of Resettlement Administration during New Deal. Worked on greenbelt cities program sought construction of new, self0sufficient cities

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Martin Meyerson and Edward Banfield

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"Politics, Planning and the Public Interest: The Case for Public Housing in Chicago" (1955) case study on race and public housing

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Harland Bartholomew

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1st full-time public sector planner in the US

Question 29

F Stuart Chapin

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"Urban Land Use Planning" (1957) Common textbook for planning (land use)

Question 30

Sherry Arnstein

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"A ladder of Citizen Participation" Journal of APA. Describes levels of individuals by citizens depending upon form of participation utilized.

Question 31

Norman Krumholz

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Equity planning in Cleveland during 70's and helped make needs of low-income groups the highest priority

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TJ Kent

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"Urban General Plan" (1964) Considered key reference for comp planning for many decades

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Paul Davidoff

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"Advocacy Planner" founded suburban action institute. Members challenged exclusionary zoning in courts.. Won Mt. Laurel case

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Edward Bassett

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"Father of Zoning" Helped shape standard zoning enabling act (1928) wrote 1st comprehensive for for NYC in 1916.

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Patrick Geddes

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Father of Regional Planning. "Cities in Evolution" (1915)

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Pierre Charles L'Enfant

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Designed plan for DC 1791. Influenced by Garden of Versailles. Classic mixing baroque plan superimposed on a grid.

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Clarence Stein

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Designer of Sunnyside homes, Queens, Redburn NJ, strong proponent of Garden Cities. "Toward New Towns for America (1959) Formed RPAA

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Walter Christaller

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German geographer developed central place theory in 1930's

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Sir Raymond Unwin

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English town planner and designer of lynchworth which was the first garden city "Town Planning in Practice" (1909)

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Daniel Burnham

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Chicago architect renowned for influential 1909 plan for Chicago. "Make no little plans. They have no fire to stir men's blood"