Folks

Question 1

Peter Calthorpe

Answer 1

Founding member of the Congress for New Urbanism, a Chicago-based advocacy group formed in 1992 that promotes sustainable building practices

Question 2

Saul Alinsky

Answer 2

An advocate of community organizing; organized Chicagos poor in the late 1930s and 1940s; 1946 he published Reveille for Radicals; The use of boycotts and marches is associated with Alinsky’s organizations

Question 3

Le Corbusier

Answer 3

Modern architect and founding member of the Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM), which advocated functional separation of land uses, highways, and high rises set in parks; the Radiant City

Question 4

Robert Weaver

Answer 4

First African-American to serve in the US Cabinet, as the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.