People Flashcards
Who wrote “Carrying Out the City Plan”? It was the first major textbook on city planning in 1914.
Flavel Shurtleff
Who designed “Sunnyside Gardens” in Queens, NY & Radburn, NJ? He was a major proponent of the Garden City Movement.
Clarence Stein, with help from Henry Wright
Who wrote the book “A Choice of Theory”? He was a founding member of the advocacy planning organization “Planners for Equal Opportunity”.
Paul Davidoff
Who wrote “Urban Land Use planning”? Also knows as the Green Bible.
F. Stuart Chapin
Who endorsed the implementation of “Model Tenements” in NY with the help of Lawrence Veiller. Wrote the book “How the Other Half Lives”. He promoted housing reform.
Jacob Riis
Who created the “Chicago Plan of 1909”? Also wrote the book “ Make no small Plans”
Daniel Burnham
Who wrote the book “ Image of the City”? This book defined the perceptual form of the urban environment. Defined the basic elements of a city’s imageability “ Paths, edges, nodes)
Kevin Lynch
Who wrote the book “ The intelligence of Democracy”? It promoted a free democracy and no central authority.
Charles E. Lindblom
Who coined the term “Megalopolis”? Also known as a supercity, it is a a group of metropolitan areas which are perceived as a continuous urban area through common systems of transportation, economy, resources, ecology, and so on.
Jean Gottmann
Who wrote the book “ The Urban General Plan”? the book criticized standard city enabling acts as “piecemeal” and unable to achieve comprehensiveness. He promoted integrating elements. Also developed San Francisco’s 1st complete master plan and the 2nd zoning ordinance.
TJ Kent
Father of American Environmentalism. Wrote the book “Man and Nature”. recognized the irreversible impact of man’s actions on the earth, a precursor to the sustainability concept.
George Perkins Marsh
Who wrote “The Good City”? the book discussed 4 basic components of urban life: Power, freedom, opportunity, and community.
Lawrence Haworth
Who wrote the book “ Education for Planning”? It was the basis for planning education
Harvey Perloff
Who wrote “ Planning of the Modern City”?
Nelson Lewis
Who wrote the book “ A Multiple Land Use Classification System”? it classified land use multidimensionally
Albert Guttenberg
Helped to influence the “City Beautiful Movement” with the concepts written in is book . Wrote the book “ Looking Backward”, which was a science fiction about private property being abolished in favor of state ownership of capital and the elimination of social classes.
Edward Bellamy
Encouraged Streets and plazas to foster civic pride. wrote the book “Art of Building Cities”
Camillo Sittee
Who wrote the “Principles of City Land Values”? The highest and best use
Richard M Hurd
Who created Hull House and Settlement House, and Housing for Immigrants in Chicago
Jane Addams
Who created the first plan for Washington DC
Pierre L’enfant
The multiple nuclei model is a theory of urban development that suggests that cities grow and develop around multiple centers, or “nuclei.”
C.D. Harris (1914 – 2003) and E.L. Ullman (1912 – 1976)
Who wrote the book “Exclusionary Zoning”? Discussing Minority and economic issues
Mary E Brooks
Who wrote the book “Urban Planning Society Policy”? “Good City”? “Highest Social Payoff”? Promoted pluralistic framework for Planning
Frieden and Morris
1968
Who wrote the book “City Planning Process: A Political Analysis”? Planners must operate within the Political framework
Alan Altshuler
Leading City Planner in the 1920s. Wrote the book “ The Great Expediter”
Robert Moses
Deemed the father of modern housing codes. Worked in NYC
Lawrence Veiller
Who wrote the book “American City Planning Since 1890”
Mel Scott
Who wrote the book “Design with Nature”? Which tied planning to the natural environment.
Ian McHarg
Who wrote “The Making of Urban America”? Which was the history of urban planning from colonial times. They also wrote “ Cities of the American West”.
John Reps
“Model for Metropolis” Early urban development model.
Ira Lowry
“The Federal Bulldozer” Indictment of Urban renewal as counterproductive
Martin Anderson
Father of Zoning and 1st Comprehensive zoning ordinance NYC
George McAneny & Edward Bassett.
Father of Regional Planning. “Cities in Evolution”
Patrick Geddes
“American Skyline”
Development of suburb at the cost of abandonment of the city, the center of our civilization.
Christopher Tunnard &
Henry Hope Reed
1953
“Poverty”
13% of all Americans were so poor that they did not have basic necessities
Robert Hunter
1904
“Architecture and the Spirit of Man” 1949 Human happiness must be ultimate goal in city planning
Joseph Hudnut
1886-1968
“Theory of Productive Expenditures”
Proponent of public expenditures to promote urban growth
Georges Eugene Haussmen
(Paris)
1809-1891
“Progress and Poverty”
Proposes property taxes as a way to fund development for public uses.
Henry George
1879
“Major Economic Factors in Metropolitan Growth and Arrangement”
Land use as a function of accessibility
Robert M. Haig
1928
“Regional Plan” - 1925
“The City in History” - 1962
Influential essays on regional planning
Lewis Mumford
1925, 1962
“Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities”
Sector theory of growth
Homer Hoyt
1939
“Concentric Zone”
Theory of urban growth
Sequence of “invasion successions”
Ernest Burgess
1925
“Land Use in Central Boston”
Challenged the
“highest and best use” doctrine
Walter Firey
1947
“Planning Function in Urban Government”
Advocated planning staff
Robert Walker
1941
“Urban Traffic:
A Function of Land Use”
Robert B. Mitchell &
Chester Rapkin
1954
“Communitas”
Community paradigms
Paul & Percival Goodman
1947
“The Shame of the Cities”
Coined the term “muckrakers”
Condemned corrupt government
Lincoln Steffens
1904
“Tomorrow:A Peaceful Path
to Real Reform”
and
“Garden Cities of Tomorrow”
Built Letchworth in England
Ebenezer Howard
1898
“Death and Life of
Great American Cities”
Critique of planning and planners
Jane Jacobs
1961
“Silent Spring”
Negative effects of pesiticides
Rachel Carson
1962
Construction begins on
Seaside, Florida,
one of the earliest examples of “new urbanism”
Andres Duany
1984
Advocated professional planning
Saul Alinsky
Co-designer of NY’s
Central Park
Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr.
“Ladder of Citizen Participation”
Advocated active involvement of citizens in planning process
Sherry R. Arnstein
Developed
Broadacre City
Frank Lloyd Wright
First president of
American Institute of Planners
Designed Forest Hills Gardens & Palos Verdes Estates
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
1917
