Important People in Planning

Question 1

Saul Alinsky

Answer 1

An advocate of community organizing. Alinsky published Reveille for Radicals in 1946, which encouraged those who are poor to become involved in American democracy.

Question 2

Jane Jacobs

Answer 2

Provided a critical look at planners and planning, with a focus on the mistakes of urban renewal. Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Question 3

Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.

Answer 3

Landscape architect who design Riverside, IL and Central Park (with Calvert Vaux).

Question 4

Ian McHarg

Answer 4

Wrote Design with Nature, which focused on conservation design using an overlay technique that was later the basis of GIS.

Question 5

Jane Addams

Answer 5

Settlement house activist, she co-founded Hull House in Chicago. Founder of the social work profession. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.