People Flashcards

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Ernest Burgess

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Concentric zone model (with Robert Park). 1925 book “The City”

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Peter calthorpe

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Developed the concept of transit oriented development in “The next American metropolis”

Founder and first president of the Congress for new urbanism.

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Andres Duany

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Designer of Seaside FL and the traditional neighborhood zoning ordinance.

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Joel Garreau

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Wrote “Edge City: Life on the new frontier” popularizing the term Edge City

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Jean Gottmann

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French geographer who wrote Megalopolis describing Boston to DC as one metropolitan area.

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Le Corbusier

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The Radiant City

Super blocks and delineating uses

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George Pullman

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Designer of the Pullman railroad car. Created the town of Pullman south of Chicago. The town was built for factory workers and included many aspects of a real city. Didn’t work in long run due to town trying to make profit like a business.

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Edward Ullman

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American Geographer

Created the Multiple Nuclei Model where there are small nodes or economic activity outside the central business district.

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William Whyte

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Street life project- studying behavior of people in urban spaces.

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Hippodamus

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Ancient Greek urban planner

Known as the father of urban planning

Grid plan

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