Books and Plans Flashcards
1
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How the Other Half Lives
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- Jacob Riis
- 1890
- led to NY housing reform
2
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Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform and Garden Cities of Tomorrow
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- Ebenezer Howard
- 1898, reissued 1902 under second name
- initiated Garden City movement
3
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Carrying Out the City Plan
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- first major American textbook on planning
- 1914
- Flavel Shurtleff
4
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Plan for San Francisco
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- Daniel Burnham
- 1906
- first application of City Beautiful principles to a major American City
5
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Plan of Chicago
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- Daniel Burnahm
- 1st metropolitan regional plan in US
- 1909
- Focused on City Beautiful
- Failed to address issues like housing, poverty, and transportation efficiency.
6
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Cities in Evolution
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- Patrick Geddes
- 1915
- foundation for regional planning theory
- “Father of regional planning”
7
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Planning of the Modern City
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- Nelson P. Lewis
- 1916
8
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Cincinnati Comprehensive Plan
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- 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
9
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The Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs
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- Clarence Perry
- 1920s
- focus on suburban development, highway construction, suburban recreational facilities.
10
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Local Planning Administration
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- Ladislas Segoe
- 1941
- 1st in Green Book series
- International City/County Management Association
11
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Urban Land Use Planning
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- F. Stuart Chapin
- 1957
- Land use textbook
12
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Image of the City
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- Kevin Lynch
- 1960
- Defines basic elements of a city’s “imageability”, edges, nodes
13
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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- Jane Jacobs
- 1961
- critical look at planning, focus on urban renewal
14
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Silent Spring
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- Rachel Carson
- 1962
- Negative effects of pesticide on the environment
15
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The Urban General Plan
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- T.J. Kent
- 1964
