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
