Notable Figures Flashcards
Charles Abrams
created the New York Housing Authority
Thomas Adams
secretary of the Garden City Association
became the first manager of Letchworth, UK
Saul Alinsky
community organizer
published Rules for Radicals
disruption of normal activities, marches/rent strikes
Sherry Arnstein
Ladder of Participation
Daniel Burnham
City Beautiful movement proponent
“make no little plans. they have no fire to stir men’s blood”
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
Robert Moses
transformed New York City’s public works
John Nolen
first comprehensive plan in Florida
contributed to the park system in Madison, WI
Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.
father of landscape architecture
Central Park, Niagra Reservation
Clarence Perry
Neighborhood unit concept
key contributor of Regional Survey of New York and its Environs
Paolo Soleri
designed Arcosanti, an experimental utopian city in Arizona
Clarence Stein
major proponent of the garden city movement
New Town for American 1951
designed Sunnyside Gardens, Radburn
Rexford Tugwell
head of the Resettlement Administration during the New Deal
worked on Greenbelt cities program
served on the New York City Planning Commission
Sir Raymond Unwin
designer of Letchworth (garden city)
Town Planning in Practice
Catherine Bauer Wurster
founder of American housing policy
Ebenezer Howard
Garden cities
Garden Cities of to-morrow
Charles Lindblom
Incremental planning theory
The Intelligence of Democracy (1965)
Henry Wright
designed Radburn, NJ
John Friedman
transactive planning , radical planning
Norman Kromholz
equity planning
Judith Innes
consensus building
Herbert Simon
satisficing: searching alternatives until an acceptability thresholds met, given constraints
Edward Basset
father of zoning
helped shape Standard City Enabling Act 1928
Paul Davidoff
Advocacy planning
Founded the suburban action institute to fight exclusionary zoning
Patrick Geddes
Father of regional planning
Cities in Evolution (1915)
TJ Kent Jr
Coordinator for housing in SF
The Urban General Plan (1964)
Pierre L’Enfant
Washington DC (axis, grid, circles)
Ian McHarg
Transfer of development rights to preserve natural landscape
Design with Nature (1971)
Lawrence Haworth
“the need is for deliberate, abstract thought”
Kevin Lynch
Importance of nodes and paths in create quality urban experiences
Image of the City
Jacob Riis
How the other half lives (1890)
results in housing reform
Walter Moody
Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago (1912)
Flavel Shurtleff
Carrying out the city plan (1914)
first major textbook on city planning
Nelson Lewis
Planning of the Modern City (1916)
Ladislas Segoe
Local Planning Administration (1941)
F. Stuart Chapin Jr
Urban Land Use Planning (1957)
Alfred Reins
With Heritage So Rich (1966)
Seminal book on historic preservation
William Whyte
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980)
Promotes the use of environmental psychology and sociology in urban design
Frederick Olmsted Jr
Site planner for 1893 Colombian Expo
McMillan Commission
founding member of ASLA
George Pullamn
Company Town Model
Need for industrialist efficiency and worker housing
Peter Calthorpe
Developed design for TODs
Gifford Pinchot
first chief forester of the dept of ag
Ernest Burgess
Concentric circle theory
Homer Hoyt
Sector theory
Harris and Ullman
Multiple Nuclei theory
Central Place Theory
Walter Chistaller
Louis Wirth
Urbanism as a way of life (1938)
discussed desnity and its effects on behavior
James Kunstler
Geography of Nowhere (1993)
Suburban sprawl and its impact on American communities
Logan & Molotch
The City as a Growth Machine (1976)
most important factor shaping a city is real estate interests
Harland Martholomew
first full-time municipally employed city planner in the US
