Influential Figures Flashcards
Clarence Perry
The sociologist that created the “Neighborhood Unit” concept for the Regional Plan for NY and Its Environs 1929.
Daniel Burnham
Frederick Law Olmstead
Jane Jacobs
Edward Basset
Clarence Stein
Pierre L’Enfant
Ebenezer Howard
Benjamin Marsh
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.
Herbert Hoover
Lewis Mumford
Paul Davidoff
Saul Alinsky
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.
Sherry Arnstein
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
Charles Lindblom
Incrementalism
Wrote the “The Science of Muddling”
WHat was Norman Krumholz known for?
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.
Kevin Lynch
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.
Lawrence Haworth
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.
This author argued “the need is for deliberate, abstract thought” devoted to what we mean by a good city.
Lawrence Haworth wrote the book, The Good City, which argued for a thoughtful approach to what actually makes a city good.
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.
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.
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
Norman Krumholz
What was Judith Innes know for?
Innes is associated with consensus building.