Books and Plans Flashcards
How the Other Half Lives
- Jacob Riis
- 1890
- led to NY housing reform
Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform and Garden Cities of Tomorrow
- Ebenezer Howard
- 1898, reissued 1902 under second name
- initiated Garden City movement
Carrying Out the City Plan
- first major American textbook on planning
- 1914
- Flavel Shurtleff
Plan for San Francisco
- Daniel Burnham
- 1906
- first application of City Beautiful principles to a major American City
Plan of Chicago
- Daniel Burnahm
- 1st metropolitan regional plan in US
- 1909
- Focused on City Beautiful
- Failed to address issues like housing, poverty, and transportation efficiency.
Cities in Evolution
- Patrick Geddes
- 1915
- foundation for regional planning theory
- “Father of regional planning”
Planning of the Modern City
- Nelson P. Lewis
- 1916
Cincinnati Comprehensive Plan
- Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe
- endorsed in 1925, adopted in 1948
- First comprehensive plan endorsed/adopted by a major american city
- Focused on infrastructure projects
- Called for planning to be controlled by citizen city planning commission
The Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs
- Clarence Perry
- 1920s
- focus on suburban development, highway construction, suburban recreational facilities.
Local Planning Administration
- Ladislas Segoe
- 1941
- 1st in Green Book series
- International City/County Management Association
Urban Land Use Planning
- F. Stuart Chapin
- 1957
- Land use textbook
Image of the City
- Kevin Lynch
- 1960
- Defines basic elements of a city’s “imageability”, edges, nodes
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Jane Jacobs
- 1961
- critical look at planning, focus on urban renewal
Silent Spring
- Rachel Carson
- 1962
- Negative effects of pesticide on the environment
The Urban General Plan
- T.J. Kent
- 1964
Design with Nature
- Ian McHarg
- 1969
- linking planning to the natural environment
- conservative design using overlay technique - became the basis for GIS
With Heritage So Rich
- Alfred Reins
- 1966
- historic preservation
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
- William Whyte
- 1980
- environmental psychology and sociology in urban design
The McMillan Plan of 1901
- Washington D.C.
- sought to resurrect L’Enfant’s 1791 plan for Washington
- return the city to civic greatness
- City Beautiful
Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning
- Paul Davidoff
- 1965
- Journal of the American Institute of Planners
- advocacy planning
- Planners are not value-neutral
Modern Housing
- Catherine Bauer Wurster
Town Planning in Practice
- Sir Raymond Unwin
- 1909
Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago
- Walter Moody
- 8th grade textbook in Chicago
- first known formal instruction in city planning below college level
- 1912
Second Regional Plan of New York and Environs
- 1970
- addressed transit and commercial rehabilitation
Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest
- Myerson and Banfield
- rational planning
- 1955
The Science of Muddling Through
- incrementalism
- Charles Lindblom
- 1959
Mixed Scanning, a third approach to decision-making
- Amitali Etzioni
- mixed scanning theory
- 1967
Cleveland Policy Planning Report
- one of the first comprehensive planning documents that advocated for social equity as a basis for planning
- equity planning
- Krumholtz
1975
Retracking America: A Theory of Transactive Planning
- John Friedman
- 1973
- transactive planning
Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action
- radical planning
- John Friendman
- 1987
