1 Fundamental: Key Planning Figures Flashcards
Who 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?
Charles Abrams
Who 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
Thomas Adams
Who was an advocate of community organizing. He organized Chicago’s 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
Saul Alinsky
Who wrote “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” for the Journal of the American Planning Association in 1969?
Sherry Arnstein
Who was a Chicago architect and prominent proponent of the City Beautiful movement?
Daniel Burnham 1893
Who wrote Culture of Cities and Cities 1938 in History 1961?
Lewis Mumford
Who wrote Silent Spring, an important book in environmental planning?
Rachel Carson
Who transformed New York City’s public works from the 1930s through the 1950s?
Robert Moses
Who designed Mariemont, Ohio and was a leading planner and landscape architect?
John Nolen
Who is considered the father of landscape architecture?
Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.
Who developed the neighborhood unit concept which was implemented in Radburn?
Clarence Perry
(The perryfect neighborhood)
Who was an architect responsible for designing Arcosanti, an experimental utopian city in Arizona ?
Paolo Soleri
Who designed Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, NY, Radburn, NJ?
Clarence Stein
Who served as the head of the Resettlement Administration during the New Deal? He worked on the greenbelt cities program
Rexford Tugwell
Who was an English town planner and designer of Letchworth?
Sir Raymond Unwin
Who was a founder of American housing policy?
Catherine Bauer Wurster
Who was planning director of Cleveland in the 1970’s and one of the first planning professional working in municipal government to use planning as a tool for equity?
Norman Krumholz
Who was the Father of Modern Housing Code?
Lawrence Veiller
Who was the Father of Zoning?
Edward Basset
Who was the Father of Modern Ecology?
Ian McHarg
Who was the Father of City Planning?
Daniel Burnham
