History - People

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Charles Abrams

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Created NY Housing Authority

Published The City is the Frontier, which was critical of slum clearance policies

Question 2

Thomas Adams

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Planner during “Garden City” movement and later planning instructor at MIT and Harvard

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Saul Alinsky

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Advocate of community organizing

Author of “Reveille for Radicals” and “Rules for Radicals”

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Sherry Arnstein

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Created “Ladder of Citizen Participation” published in JAPA in 1969

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Daniel Burnham

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Proponent of City Beautiful movement

Lead developer of 1893 Columbia’s Exposition and 1909 Plan of Chicago

“Make no little plans. They have no fire to stir men’s blood”

Question 6

Daniel Burnham
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Proponent of City Beautiful movement

Lead developer of 1893 Columbia’s Exposition and 1909 Plan of Chicago

“Make no little plans. They have no fire to stir men’s blood”
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Rachel Carson

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Author of “Silent Spring.”

United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964)
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John Nolen

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Designer of Mariemont, Ohio

Created first comprehensive plan in Florida

Contributed to park system in Madison, WI

Designed Venice, FL
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Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr.

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“Father” of landscape architecture.

Developed Central Park and Prospect Park, Niagra Reservation, and university campus landscapes.

Part of design team for Riverside, IL

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Clarence Perry

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Developed “neighborhood unit” concept implemented in Radburn, NJ

Contrbuted to 1929 “Regional Survey of New York and its Environs”
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Question 10

Pablo Soleri

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Architect who designed Arcosanti, experimental utopian city in Arizona

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Clarence Stein

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Major proponent of the Garden City Movement in the USA

Collaborated with Henry Wright to design Rayburn, New Jersey a garden suburb noted for its superblock layout. There was total separation between the automobile and the pedestrian.

Wrote “New Town for America” (1951)

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Rexford Tugwell

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Head of the Resettlement Administration during New Deal

Worked on the greenbelt cities program, which sought construction of new, self-sufficient cities

Involved in the development of Arthurdale, West Virginia, a Resettlement Administration community.

Served on the New York City Planning Commission and as governor of Puerto Rico.

Question 13

Sir Raymond Unwin

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English Town Planner; author of “Town Planning in Practice” (1909)

Designer of Letchworth

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Catherine Bauer Wurster

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Founder of American housing policy and reformer

Executive secretary of Regional Planning Ass’n of America

Wrote “Modern Housing”

Influential in passage of Housing Act of 1937

Question 15

Ebenezer Howard

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Developer of “Garden Cities”

Author of “Garden Cities of To-morrow” (1902)

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Marie Emery

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Founded Mariemont, which was source of new urbanism concepts

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Paul Davidoff

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Early champion of advocacy planning. Argued that there is no one public interest for planners to serve, and thus, that planners have no choice but to become non-objective advocates for specific interests and groups.

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Peter Calthrope

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Architect; developed concept of Transit Oriented Development

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John Friedmann

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Developed “transactive planning” concept – makes public participation the central goal of planning. Also contributed to “radical planning” which has as tenets decolonization, decentralization, and self-empowerment

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Charles Lindbolm

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Creator of “incrementalism” planning, a step-by-step incremental approach to achieving larger plans

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Patrick Geddes

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Developed regional planning

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Ian McHarg

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Landscape architect; author of “Design with Nature” which pioneered ecological planning in the design of cities

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Edward Bassett

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“Father of zoning;” drafted New York City’s first zoning code (1916)

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Lawrence Veiller

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Developed the modern housing code

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Jean Gottmann

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Defined the term “Megalopolis” to mean a clustered network of cities with a population of 25 million

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Kevin Lynch

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Author of “Image of the City,” describes key elements of imageability - paths, edges, nodes, districts, landmarks