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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Rachel Carson

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  • Silent Spring
  • Enrivonmental planning
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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

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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

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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

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Clarence Perry

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  • neighborhood unit concept
  • Radburn, NJ
  • 1929 Regional Survey of NY and Its Environs
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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Walter Moody

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  • wrote Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago
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Flavel Shurtleff

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  • wrote Carrying Out the City Plan
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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.
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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

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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Jacob Riis

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  • How the Other Half Lives
  • photographer

late 1800s
New York

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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

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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

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Nelson Lewis

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  • Planning of the Modern City

early 1900s

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F. Stuart Chapin

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  • wrote Urban Land Use Planning a textbook
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Kevin Lynch

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  • defines concepts such as edges and nodes in cities
  • Image of the City
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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
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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
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Ian McHarg

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  • GIS
  • Environmental planning and conservation
  • Design with Nature
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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
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Lewis Mumford

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  • leader of Regional Planning Association of America along with Benton MacKaye
  • garden cities
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Benton MacKaye

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  • leader of Regional Planning Association of America along with Lewis Mumford
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Henry Wright

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  • helped design Radburn, NJ along with Clarence Stein
  • Garden Cities
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Ernest Burgess

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  • concentric circle theory
  • bid rent curve
  • sociologist
  • studied growth of Chicago

Chicago

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Homer Hoyt

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  • sector theory
  • real estate business, focused on high-end residential development
  • Chicago
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Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman

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  • multiple nuceli theory
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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

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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

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Amitali Etzioni

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  • mixed scanning
  • Mixed Scanning, a third approach to decision-making
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Paul Davidoff

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  • advocacy planning
  • Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning
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Norman Krumholz

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  • equity planning

Cleveland

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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
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Robert Weaver

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first secretary of HUD

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Frank Lloyd Wright

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  • Broadacre City - low density cities away from urban areas
  • architect

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