People Flashcards
Charles Abrams
New York Housing Authority.
In 1965 The City is the Frontier, a book that was highly critical of U.S. federal policies surrounding slum clearance, urban renewal, and public housing.
Thomas Adams
Garden City movement.
He was the secretary of the Garden City Association and became the first manager of Letchworth, U.K. He developed a number of garden suburbs in England and later went on to teach planning at MIT and Harvard.
Saul Alinksy
Community Organizing.
1946 Reveille for Radicals.
Rules for Radicals - 13 rules for community organizing
Sherry Arnstein
A Ladder of Citizen Participation
Daniel Burnham
City Beautiful.
1909 Plan of Chicago- make no little plans
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring, environmental planning
Robert Moses
New York 1930-50s.
Expanded state public works
John Nolen
landscape architect/planner
first comp plan in Florida
Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr.
father of landscape arch. - Central/Prospect parks in NYC
1868 Riverside, IL
Clarence Perry
Neighborhood Unit Concept- Radburn, NJ
Paolo Soleri
Arcosanti-utopian city in Arizona, minimizing development impact on nature
Clarence Stein
Garden City Movement
1951 New Town for America
Rexford Tugwell
Resettlement Administration New Deal.
Greenbelt cities program.
NYC planning commission
Sir Raymond Unwin
English town planner, Letchworth.
1909 Town Planning in Practice
Catherine Bauer Wurster
American housing policy.
Wrote Modern Housing.
Influential in the 1937 Housing Act
