Key Planning Figures Flashcards

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Garden City movement planner and secretary of Garden City Association.

First manager of Letchworth, U.K.

Developer of several U.K. garden cities.

Taught at MIT and Harvard

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Thomas Adams

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Created the NYC Housuing Authority.

Published “The City is the Frontier” in 1965.

Critical of U.S. federal policies surrounidng slum clearance, urban renewal, and public housing.

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Charles Abrams

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Major communit orgnanzing planning advocate in Chicago (1930s-1940s).

“Reville for Radicals” book encouraged poor to get involved democratically.

“Rules for Radicals” book provides 13 rules for community organizing.

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Saul Alinsky

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Wrote “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” for JAPA (1969).

Described the levels of invovlement by citizens depending on the form of participation.

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Sherry Arnstein

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Chicago architect of City Beautiful Movement.

1893 Columbian Exposition (1/2 population saw). White City.

1909 Plan of Chicago.

“Make no small plans. They have no fire to stir men’s blood”.

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Daniel Burnham

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“Silent Spring” author

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Rachel Carson

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Commisioner of NYC Parks and Recreation

Manhattan highways and NYC parkways proponent.

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Robert Moses

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Designed Mariemont, Ohio

Madison, WI park system. “X” Drive near Monona Terrace.

Landscape architect and planner.

First comprehensive plan in Florida (designed Venice, FL).

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John Nolen

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“Father of Landscape Architecture”

Central/Prospect Parks (NYC) designer.

Riverside, IL designer (1868).

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Frederick Law Omstead, Sr.

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Who developed the neighborhood unit concept which was implemented in Radburn, NJ?

Key contributior to the 1929 “Regional Survey of New York and its Environs”

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Clarence Perry

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Architect that designed Arcsanti (experimental utopian city in Arizona focused on minimizing impact of development on the natural environment).

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Paolo Soleri

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Designer of Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, NYC; Radburn, NJ; and other garden suburbs.

Promoted garden cities.

Wrote “New Town for America” (1951).

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Clarence Stein

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Head of New Deal era Resettlement Admin.

Greenbelt Cities program.

Arthurdale, WV; NYC Planning Commission; and PR Governor.

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Rexford Tugwell

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English town planner/designer of Letchworth

“Town Planning in Practice” (1909)

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Sir Raymond Unwin

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Executive Secretary of Regional Planning Association of America.

Wrote “Modern Housing”

Influential in passing Housing Act of 1937

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Catherine Bauer Wurster

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