Key Planning Books

Question 1

How the Other Half Lives

Answer 1

1890, Jacob Riis, NY housing reform

Question 2

Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

Answer 2

1898, Ebenezer Howard, Garden City

Question 3

Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago

Answer 3

1912, Walter Moody, 8th grade textbook

Question 4

Carrying out the City Plan

Answer 4

1914, Flavel Shurtleff, city planning textbook

Question 5

Cities in Evolution

Answer 5

1915, Patrick Geddes, “father of regional planning”

Question 6

Planning of the Modern City

Answer 6

1916, Nelson Lewis

Question 7

Local Planning Administration

Answer 7

1941, Ladislas Segoe, first in the “Green Book” series

Question 8

Urban Land Use Planning

Answer 8

1957, F. Stuart Chapin, textbook

Question 9

Image of the City

Answer 9

1960, Kevin Lynch, edges and nodes

Question 10

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Answer 10

1961, Jane Jacobs, critique of urban renewal

Question 11

Silent Spring

Answer 11

1962, Rachel Carson, pesticides

Question 12

The Urban General Plan

Answer 12

1964, TJ Kent

Question 13

With Heritage So Rich

Answer 13

1966, ed. Alfred Reins, historic preservation

Question 14

Design With Nature

Answer 14

1969, Ian McHarg, conservation design

Question 15

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Answer 15

1980, William Whyte, environmental psychology and sociology in urban design