People Flashcards
1
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Charles Abrams
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- housing, anti-discrimination
- Created NY Housing and Development Administration in 1960s
- Served on state and national anti-discrimination committees
- coauthored the New York Municipal Housing Authorities Law in 1933
- Attorney for New York in New York City Housing Authority v. Muller (eminent domain for slum clearance and building public housing) in 1836
- The City is the Frontier - 1965, critical of housing policies, slum clearance, urban renewal
- “Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.”
1901-1970
early to mid 1900s
New York
2
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Thomas Adams
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- secretary of Garden City Association
- 1st manager of Letchworth, UK
- Taught at MIT, Harvard
- Regional Plan of New York and its Environs
UK and US
3
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Saul Alinsky
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- Community organizing advocate
- Reveille for Radicals - encouraging poor to get involved in democracy
- Rules for Radicals - provided 13 rules for community organizing
1930s-40s
Chicago
4
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Sherry Arnstein
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- community engagement/participation
- “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” - in Journal of APA - describes level of involvement of citizens in different forms of participation
1960s
5
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Daniel Burnham
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- City Beautiful
- 1893 Columbian Exposition (Chicago)
- 1909 Plan of Chicago
- “Make no little plans. They have no fire to stir men’s blood.”
- Architect
Late 1800s - early 1900s
Chicago
6
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Rachel Carson
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- Silent Spring
- Enrivonmental planning
7
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Robert Moses
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- New York City Public Works
- Expanded state parks system,
- built parks, playgrounds, highways, bridges, tunnels, public housing
- urban renewal
1930s - 1960s
New York
8
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John Nolen
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- Florida Comprehensive Plan
- designed Mariemont, OH; parks in Madison, WI; Venice, FL
- planner and landscape architect
1869-1937
Florida
9
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Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.
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- father of landscape architecture
- Central Park, Prospect Park in New York City
- Niagra Reservation
- University campus landscapes
- Riverside, IL design team
late 1800s
10
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Clarence Perry
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- neighborhood unit concept
- Radburn, NJ
- 1929 Regional Survey of NY and Its Environs
11
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Paolo Soleri
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- architect
- Arcosanti, an experimental utopian city in Arizona focused on minimizing the impact of development on the natural environment
12
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Clarence Stein
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- Garden Cities
- designed Sunnyside Gardens, Radburn, NJ (with Henry Wright)
- Wrote New Towns for America
13
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Rexford Tugwell
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- head of Resettlement Administration
- Greenbelt Cities program
- Arthurdale, WV
- NYC Planning Comission
- Governor of Puerto Rico
14
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Sir Raymond Unwin
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- English town planner
- designer of Letchworth
- University of Birmingham in England, Columbia University
- author ofTown Planning in Practice
15
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Catherine Bauer Wurster
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- founder of American housing policy
- executive secretary of the Regional Planning Association of America
- wrote Modern Housing
- influential in passing Housing Act of 1937
16
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Norman Krumholz
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- equity planning
- his office wrote 1975 Policy Planning Report that was one of the first comprehensive plans to place social policy front and center
- Planning director of Cleveland
1970s
Cleveland, OH
17
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Walter Moody
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- wrote Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago
18
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Flavel Shurtleff
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- wrote Carrying Out the City Plan
19
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Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr
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- first president of American City Planning Institute (ACPI)
- wildlife conservation
- designed Forest Hill Gardens in Queens, New York, and Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles County, California.
20
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Edward Bassett
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- wrote the first comprehensive zoning code (NYC)
- lawyer
- Involved in Advisory Committee on City Planning and Zoning which wrote the Enabling acts
- “Father of American Zoning”
New York
21
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Harland Bartholomew
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- first full-time employee for a city planning commission in Newark, NJ
- famous planning consultant
22
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Herbert Hoover
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- Standard State Zoning Enabling Act
- Standard City Planning Enabling Act
- Secretary of Department of Commerce
23
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Alfred Bettman
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- Wrote the Cincinnati Comprehensive plan (1st) along with Ladislas Segoe
- Involved in Advisory Committee on City Planning and Zoning which wrote the Enabling acts
- Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Company.
24
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Ladislas Segoe
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- Wrote the Cincinnati Comprehense plan (1st) along with Alfred Bettman
- wrote Local Planning Administration the first in Green Book Series
25
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Jacob Riis
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- How the Other Half Lives
- photographer
late 1800s
New York
26
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Ebenezer Howard
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- Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform
- garden cities
- formed Garden City Association in England
late 1800s - early 1900s
England
27
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Patrick Geddes
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- father of regional planning
- Cities in Evolution
- coined the concept of “region” to architectural and planning fields and the term “conurbation”
early 1900s
28
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Nelson Lewis
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- Planning of the Modern City
early 1900s
29
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F. Stuart Chapin
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- wrote Urban Land Use Planning a textbook
30
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Kevin Lynch
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- defines concepts such as edges and nodes in cities
- Image of the City
31
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Jane Jacobs
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- critical look at planning and urban renewal
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
32
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TJ Kent
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- The Urban General Plan
33
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Alfred Reins
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- With Heritage So Rich
- historic preservation
34
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Ian McHarg
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- GIS
- Environmental planning and conservation
- Design with Nature
35
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William Whyte
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- environmental psycology and sociology in urban design
- The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
- “Street Life Project”
- inspired the Project for Public Spaces
36
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Lewis Mumford
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- leader of Regional Planning Association of America along with Benton MacKaye
- garden cities
37
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Benton MacKaye
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- leader of Regional Planning Association of America along with Lewis Mumford
38
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Henry Wright
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- helped design Radburn, NJ along with Clarence Stein
- Garden Cities
39
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Ernest Burgess
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- concentric circle theory
- bid rent curve
- sociologist
- studied growth of Chicago
Chicago
40
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Homer Hoyt
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- sector theory
- real estate business, focused on high-end residential development
- Chicago
41
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Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman
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- multiple nuceli theory
42
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Walter Christaller
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- central place theory
- german geographer
43
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Rittel and Webber
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concept of Wicked Problems
44
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Martin Myerson and Banfield
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- rational planning
- Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest
1950s
45
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Herbert Simon
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- coined the term “satisfice”
- bounded rationality
- argued that the “economic man” should be replaced by the “administrative man” who satisfices
46
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Charles Lindblom
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- incrementalism
- The Science of Muddling Through
mid-1900s
47
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Amitali Etzioni
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- mixed scanning
- Mixed Scanning, a third approach to decision-making
48
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Paul Davidoff
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- advocacy planning
- Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning
49
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Norman Krumholz
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- equity planning
Cleveland
50
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John Friedman
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- transactive planning
- Retracking America: A Theory of Transactive Planning
- Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action
51
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Robert Weaver
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first secretary of HUD
52
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Peter Calthorpe
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- urban planner, designer, and architect
- developed concept of Transit Oriented Development
- sustainability
- The Next American Metropolis
- (co)founded and president of the Congress for New Urbanism
53
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Andres Duany
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- architect and planner
- sustainable urban development and new urbanism
- designer for Seaside, FL and the traditional neighborhood development zoning ordinance
- (co)founded Congress for New Urbanism
54
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Joel Garreau
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- Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
- made the term “Edge City” popular
- journalist and author
55
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Jean Gottman
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- Megalopolis
- described northeastern US, from Boston to D.C. as one metropolitan area
- french geographer
56
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Le Corbusier
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- Radiant City - super blocks delineated between different uses such as housing, factories, and businesses
- architect
57
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George Pullman
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- designed and manufactured the Pullman railroad car
- created a compnay town - town of Pullman, IL
58
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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- Broadacre City - low density cities away from urban areas
- architect
