People

Question 1

Clarence Perry

Answer 1

Developed the neighborhood unit concept implemented in Radburn, New Jersey and a key contributor to the 1929 Regional Survey of New York and its Environs.

Question 2

Paul Davidoff

Answer 2

Developed the concept of the “advocacy planner” and founded the Suburban Action Institute in 1969, in which members challenged exclusionary zoning in courts, winning in Mt. Laurel case.

Question 3

Charles Lindbloom

Answer 3

American political scientist who focused on incrementalism as a decision-making model. Published “The Science of Muddling Through” in 1959

Question 4

Daniel Burnham

Answer 4

Chicago architect renowned for the influential 1909 Plan for Chicago and famous for the quote “Make no little plans. They have no fire to stir men’s blood.” His work was part of the birth of the City Beautiful movement.

Question 5

Clarence Stein

Answer 5

Designer of Sunnyside Homes, Queens, NY and Radburn, NJ in the 1920’s. Co-founded the Regional Plan Association of America (1923.) Wrote New Towns for America. Proponent of the Garden Cities movement.

Question 6

Saul Alinsky

Answer 6

An advocate of community organizing. This activist published Reveille for Radicals in 1946, which encouraged those who are poor to become involved in American democracy.

Question 7

Edward Bassett

Answer 7

Known as the “Father of Zoning”. Helped shape the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act (issued 1922, printed 1924) and wrote the first comprehensive zoning code for New York City in 1916.

Question 8

Ian McHarg

Answer 8

Wrote Design with Nature, which focused on conservation design using an overlay technique that was later the basis of GIS.

Question 9

Peter Calthorpe

Answer 9

New Urbanism