Key Planning Books and Figures Flashcards
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis (1890) Resulted in housing reform in NYC.
Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform
Ebenezer Howard (1898) Led to Garden City Movement
Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago
Walter Moody (1912) Adopted as text book for 8th graders. First sub-college level text book
Carrying Out the Plan
Flavel Shurtleff (1914) First major planning textbook
Cities in Evolution
Patrick Geddes (1915) Regional Planning book
Planning of the Modern City
Nelson Lewis (1916)
Local Planning Administration
Ladislas Segoe (1941) First book in the Green Book Series published by International City/County Association
Urban Land Use Planning
F. Stuart Chapin (1957) common textbook on land use planning
Image of the City
Kevin Lynch (1960) defines basic concepts like nodes and edges
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs (1961) critical take on urban planning and urban renewal
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson (1962) negative effects of pesticides on the environment
The Urban General Plan
TJ Kent (1964)
With Heritage So Rich
Alfred Reins (1966) historic preservation
Design With Nature
Ian McHarg (1969) conservation design using an overlay design that became the basis for GIS
The Social Life of Small Spaces
William Whyte (1980) promotes the use of environmental psychology and sociology in urban design
