Key Planning Figures Flashcards
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
Thomas Adams
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.
Charles Abrams
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.
Saul Alinsky
Wrote “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” for JAPA (1969).
Described the levels of invovlement by citizens depending on the form of participation.
Sherry Arnstein
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”.
Daniel Burnham
“Silent Spring” author
Rachel Carson
Commisioner of NYC Parks and Recreation
Manhattan highways and NYC parkways proponent.
Robert Moses
Designed Mariemont, Ohio
Madison, WI park system. “X” Drive near Monona Terrace.
Landscape architect and planner.
First comprehensive plan in Florida (designed Venice, FL).
John Nolen
“Father of Landscape Architecture”
Central/Prospect Parks (NYC) designer.
Riverside, IL designer (1868).
Frederick Law Omstead, Sr.
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”
Clarence Perry
Architect that designed Arcsanti (experimental utopian city in Arizona focused on minimizing impact of development on the natural environment).
Paolo Soleri
Designer of Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, NYC; Radburn, NJ; and other garden suburbs.
Promoted garden cities.
Wrote “New Town for America” (1951).
Clarence Stein
Head of New Deal era Resettlement Admin.
Greenbelt Cities program.
Arthurdale, WV; NYC Planning Commission; and PR Governor.
Rexford Tugwell
English town planner/designer of Letchworth
“Town Planning in Practice” (1909)
Sir Raymond Unwin
Executive Secretary of Regional Planning Association of America.
Wrote “Modern Housing”
Influential in passing Housing Act of 1937
Catherine Bauer Wurster