Important People Flashcards
Lawrence Veiller
Father of Modern Housing Code.
Recognized as the leading American proponent of housing standards, codes and enforcement during early 20th century. He campaigned successfully for the “new” tenement law of 1901.
Lincoln Steffens
Investigated corruption in city government at the turn of the century. Authored The Shame of the Cities (1904). Lived in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Robert Moses
One of most powerful people in NY state government from 1930-1950s. He was chief in design and construction of more than 400 miles of parkways, the Triborough Bridge and Jones Beach.
Lewis Mumford
Promoted idea that planning should accentuate a natural relationship between people and their living spaces. Co-founder of Regional Planning Association of America with Clarence Stein. Author of The City in History (1961) and The Culture of Cities (1938).
Clarence Perry
Originated “neighborhood unit” concept in the 1920s. Author of Neighborhood Unit: A Scheme of Arrangement for the Family-Life Community, 1929.
Kevin Lynch
Author of Image of the City (1060) about how people perceive and organize spatial info as they navigate cities - involved paths, edges, nodes and landmarks. Professor at MIT.
Paul Davidoff
Father of Advocacy Planning.
Notable for winning Mt. Laurel cases challenging exclusionary zoning.
Founder of the Suburban Action Institute in 1969.
Edward Bassett
Father of Zoning. Chaired commission that produced NYC 1916 zoning code plan.
Jane Jacobs
The Life and Death of Great American Cities
George Kessler
Designed parks and parkways around turn of century. Designed Denver’s parks system in 1907.
T.J. Kent, Jr.
Author of The Urban General Plan (1964). First chairman of UC Berkeley’s graduate planning program - first on the west coast.
Sherry Arnstein
“Ladder of Citizen Participation” about hierarchy of public involvement.
Harland Bartholomew
First planner as city staff in St. Louis. Contributed to comprehensive planning
Catherine (Wurster) Bauer
Public housing. Author of Modern Housing, which influenced housing legislation f the New Deal. Laid foundations for Social Planning. She co-authored the 1937 Housing Act.
Edward Bennett
Co-authored 1909 Plan of Chicago with Daniel Burnham.
Elizabeth Herlihy
First woman member of the American City Planning Institute. Worked in Boston.
Theodora Hubbard
Author of first comprehensive bibliography on planning. Partner of Henry Hubbard, first chairman of Harvard’s planning program.
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Parisian designer who did the 1792 Plan of Washington DC - radial streets, grand vistas.
Mary Simkhovitch
organized one of the nation’s first settlement houses, Greenwich House in NY. Was also involved in first national conference on City Planning in 1909.
Donald Shoup
Author of The High Cost of Free Parking, which studies parking as key link between transportation and land use.
Rexford Tugwell
Devised Greenbelt Towns plan to resettle Depression-era poor in suburban new towns (Maryland, Ohio, Wisconsin). He founded planning program at University of Chicago in 1946.
Lillian Wald
Advocate planner who sought legislative and design solutions for child welfare, transportation, housing, playground and open space. She helped organize the first national conference on city planning in 1909.
Saul Alinsky
Modern community organizing
Joel Garreau
Author of Edge City. These cities are built at the “automobile scale” rather than the human scale and usually have at least 5 million square feet of leasable office space and 600,000 square feet of retail space, and have more jobs than bedrooms.
Homer Hoyt
An economist with FHA in the 1930s. Author of Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities in 1939, advocating Sector Theory (which was disagreed with Burgess’ Concentric Circle Theory)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Braod Acre City concept - divorced city and suburb, and was architecturally focused. Author of The Disappearing City, 1932.
Patrick Geddes
Father of Regional Planning.
Author of Cities in Evolution, 1915, which was a comprehensive look at cities and linked social reform and urban environment.