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Notable Figures Flashcards

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Charles Abrams

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created the New York Housing Authority

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Thomas Adams

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secretary of the Garden City Association

became the first manager of Letchworth, UK

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Saul Alinsky

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community organizer
published Rules for Radicals
disruption of normal activities, marches/rent strikes

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Sherry Arnstein

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Ladder of Participation

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Daniel Burnham

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City Beautiful movement proponent

“make no little plans. they have no fire to stir men’s blood”

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Rachel Carson

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Silent Spring

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Robert Moses

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transformed New York City’s public works

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John Nolen

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first comprehensive plan in Florida

contributed to the park system in Madison, WI

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Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.

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father of landscape architecture

Central Park, Niagra Reservation

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Clarence Perry

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Neighborhood unit concept

key contributor of Regional Survey of New York and its Environs

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Paolo Soleri

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designed Arcosanti, an experimental utopian city in Arizona

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Clarence Stein

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major proponent of the garden city movement
New Town for American 1951
designed Sunnyside Gardens, Radburn

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Rexford Tugwell

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head of the Resettlement Administration during the New Deal
worked on Greenbelt cities program
served on the New York City Planning Commission

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Sir Raymond Unwin

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designer of Letchworth (garden city)

Town Planning in Practice

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Catherine Bauer Wurster

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founder of American housing policy

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Ebenezer Howard

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Garden cities

Garden Cities of to-morrow

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Charles Lindblom

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Incremental planning theory

The Intelligence of Democracy (1965)

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Henry Wright

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designed Radburn, NJ

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John Friedman

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transactive planning , radical planning

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Norman Kromholz

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equity planning

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Judith Innes

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consensus building

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Herbert Simon

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satisficing: searching alternatives until an acceptability thresholds met, given constraints

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Edward Basset

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father of zoning

helped shape Standard City Enabling Act 1928

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Paul Davidoff

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Advocacy planning

Founded the suburban action institute to fight exclusionary zoning

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Patrick Geddes

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Father of regional planning

Cities in Evolution (1915)

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TJ Kent Jr

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Coordinator for housing in SF

The Urban General Plan (1964)

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Pierre L’Enfant

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Washington DC (axis, grid, circles)

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Ian McHarg

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Transfer of development rights to preserve natural landscape
Design with Nature (1971)

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Lawrence Haworth

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“the need is for deliberate, abstract thought”

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Kevin Lynch

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Importance of nodes and paths in create quality urban experiences
Image of the City

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Jacob Riis

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How the other half lives (1890)

results in housing reform

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Walter Moody

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Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago (1912)

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Flavel Shurtleff

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Carrying out the city plan (1914)

first major textbook on city planning

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Nelson Lewis

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Planning of the Modern City (1916)

35
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Ladislas Segoe

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Local Planning Administration (1941)

36
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F. Stuart Chapin Jr

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Urban Land Use Planning (1957)

37
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Alfred Reins

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With Heritage So Rich (1966)

Seminal book on historic preservation

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William Whyte

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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980)

Promotes the use of environmental psychology and sociology in urban design

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Frederick Olmsted Jr

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Site planner for 1893 Colombian Expo
McMillan Commission
founding member of ASLA

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George Pullamn

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Company Town Model

Need for industrialist efficiency and worker housing

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Peter Calthorpe

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Developed design for TODs

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Gifford Pinchot

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first chief forester of the dept of ag

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Ernest Burgess

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Concentric circle theory

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Homer Hoyt

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Sector theory

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Harris and Ullman

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Multiple Nuclei theory

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Central Place Theory

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Walter Chistaller

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Louis Wirth

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Urbanism as a way of life (1938)

discussed desnity and its effects on behavior

48
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James Kunstler

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Geography of Nowhere (1993)

Suburban sprawl and its impact on American communities

49
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Logan & Molotch

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The City as a Growth Machine (1976)

most important factor shaping a city is real estate interests

50
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Harland Martholomew

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first full-time municipally employed city planner in the US

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