Influential Figures

Question 1

Clarence Perry

Answer 1

The sociologist that created the “Neighborhood Unit” concept for the Regional Plan for NY and Its Environs 1929.

Question 2

Daniel Burnham

Question 3

Frederick Law Olmstead

Question 4

Jane Jacobs

Question 5

Edward Basset

Question 6

Clarence Stein

Question 7

Pierre L’Enfant

Question 8

Ebenezer Howard

Question 9

Benjamin Marsh

Answer 9

Social worker, journalist, and Georgist activist who helped pioneer the city planning movement in the United States.
He wrote the “Introduction to City Planning” in 1909.

Question 10

Herbert Hoover

Question 11

Lewis Mumford

Question 12

Paul Davidoff

Question 13

Saul Alinsky

Answer 13

Saul Alinsky was an advocate of community organizing. Alinsky organized Chicagos poor in the late 1930s and 1940s. In 1946 he published Reveille for Radicals, which encouraged those who are poor to become involved in American democracy. Later he published Rules for Radicals, which provided 13 rules for community organizing. His goal for Rules for Radicals was to create a guide for future community organizers to use in uniting low-income communities.

Question 14

Sherry Arnstein

Answer 14

Sherry Arnstein , in 1969, wrote A Ladder of Citizen Participation for the Journal of the American Planning Association. This article describes the levels of involvement by citizens depending on the form of participation utilized.

Created the outreach ladder:

1) non participation
2) tokenism
3) citizen power

Question 15

Charles Lindblom

Answer 15

Incrementalism

Wrote the “The Science of Muddling”

Question 16

WHat was Norman Krumholz known for?

Answer 16

He was an advocate for equity planning, which holds that planners should work to improve life for the city’s poorest residents rather than serve powerful interests in big development projects.

Question 17

Kevin Lynch

Answer 17

Imageability. Lynch argues that for any given city, a corresponding set of mental images exist in the minds of the people who experience that city. Contributing to those images are five qualities which Lynch identifies as Paths, Edges, Districts, Nodes, and Landmarks.

Question 18

Lawrence Haworth

Answer 18

This author argued “the need is for deliberate, abstract thought” devoted to what we mean by a good city. Prompted planners to think critically about what supports high quality of life.

Question 19

This author argued “the need is for deliberate, abstract thought” devoted to what we mean by a good city.

Answer 19

Lawrence Haworth wrote the book, The Good City, which argued for a thoughtful approach to what actually makes a city good.

Question 20

You are in a rapidly growing city and you are preparing the city’s comprehensive plan. As part of the plan you are preparing a section about carrying capacity, illustrating future growth. You are using which of the following author’s work to support this chapter.

Answer 20

Ian McHarg wrote extensively about the design of cities with the intension of examining issues such as the carrying capacity of parks to support a community.

Question 21

Which of the following people is associated with the development of equity planning theory?

Select one:

a. Amitai Etzioni
b. Judith Innes
c. Paul Davidoff
d. Norman Krumholz

Answer 21

Norman Krumholz

Question 22

What was Judith Innes know for?

Answer 22

Innes is associated with consensus building.