Key Planning Figures Flashcards
Thomas Adams
He was an important planner during the Garden City movement. He was the secretary of the Garden City Association and became the first manager of Letchworth, U.K. He developed a number of garden suburbs in England and later went on to teach planning at MIT and Harvard.
Sherry Arnstein
Sherry Arnstein became a household name among planners in 1969 when she published her ground-breaking article “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” about the hierarchy of public involvement. The Journal of the American Planning Association article has been reprinted 80 times and translated into Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, French, and German. Arnstein’s work influenced how planners and communities go about engaging the public in the planning and decision-making process, provided the theoretical framework for advocacy planning, and organized planners’ understanding of meaning public participation as a way for citizens to be equal partners in shaping programs and plans.
Frederick J. Adams
Frederick J. Adams (1901–1980) founded the city and regional planning department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1932. Adams insisted that the planning program should be interdisciplinary while also making sure that the field maintained its own identity. His students helped to create university planning programs at the University of California at Berkeley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Ohio State University, and Pennsylvania State University at State College.
Edmund N. Bacon
Edmund N. Bacon, Philadelphia’s planning director from 1949 to 1970, is honored for bringing national attention to the rebuilding of the American city in the post-World War II era. In Design of Cities, Bacon explains his philosophy of design, derived in part from his study of great urban design achievements of the past, and shows how it applies to the revived design of mid-20 century Central City Philadelphia.
Frederick H. Bair, Jr.
Author of The Text of a Model Zoning Ordinance. He also refined the land-use intensity system, which he first adapted to Norfolk, Virginia. Besides writing three editions of Model Zoning, he wrote commentaries for Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, was a founder of the Florida Planning and Zoning Association (1950), and practiced professionally, first with the Florida Development Commission and then as an independent consultant at his own firm, Bair & Abernathy.
Amitai Etzioni
Etzioni proposed ‘mixed scanning’
Mixed Scanning: involves two sets of judgments: the first are broad, fundamental choices about the organization’s basic policy and direction; the second are incremental decisions that prepare the way for new, basic judgments and that implement and particularize them once they have been made.
Mixed scanning is much less detailed and demanding than rationalistic decision making, but still broader and more comprehensive than incrementalism—and less likely to be limited to familiar alternatives.
