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Edward Bennett

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1904 plan for San Francisco and colleague of Daniel Burnham

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Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr.

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Planned Central Park, major land use pioneer

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Edward Bassett

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Wrote the 1916 NYC Zoning Code

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Calvert Vaux

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Worked with Olmstead Sr. on Central Park

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Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr.

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First ACPI President, prepared numerous City Plans across the East Coast + Boulder, CO

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Harland Bartholomew

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First Full-Time City Planner employed by municipality, started in Newark and moved on to St. Louis, major advocate of racial segregation

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Lawrence Veiller

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First Full-Time American Housing reformer, his work led to the NYC Tenement Laws

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Louis Wirth

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Wrote “Urbanism as a Way of Life” in 1938, density advocate

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Paulo Soleri

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Advocated mega structures with nature, Arcosanti is his signature development

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Robert Lang

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Wrote “Edgeless Cities” in 2002, argued that suburban office spaces and office parks were bad for pedestrians.

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Alfred Bettman

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Wrote First Comprehensive Plan in Cincinnati, was a lawyer for Euclid v. Ambler, 1st ASPO President

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Wrote “Disappearing City” in 1932, advocate for sprawl.

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Rexford Tugwell

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Headed Resettlement Administration, had awesome name

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Amitai Etziono

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Wrote “The Spirit of Community,” founded communitarianism

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James Rouse

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Designed Columbia, MD and pioneered outdoor shopping malls which he called “Festival Marketplaces”

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James Howard Kunstler

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Wrote “The Geography of Nowhere,” which was a history of suburbia. Leading New Urbanist, also wrote “The Long Emergency” about Peak Oil

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Sherry Arnstein

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Wrote “The Ladder of Citizen Participation” in 1969

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William Whyte

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Wrote “Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” in 1980. Environmental psychology in urban design, coined the term “Greenway” in the book “The Last Landscape”

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Allan Jacobs

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Wrote “Making City Planning Work” in 1985 and “Great Streets” in 1995, describing the qualities of great streets.

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Ernest Burgess

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Developed Concentric Ring Theory in 1925 – urban areas grow in a series of concentric rings outward from CBD

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Homer Hoyt

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Developed Sector Theory in 1939 urban areas develop in sectors along communication and transportation routes

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Harris & Ullman

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Developed Multiple Nuclei Theory in 1945 - urban areas grow around a number of separate nuclei, which are specialized and differentiated

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William Alonso

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Land Rent curve, bide rent theory (1960) – cost of land, intensity of development and concentration of population decline as you move away from CBD

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Alreide Keinus

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historic preservation, wrote With Heritage so Rich in 1966

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TJ Kent

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author of the Urban General Plan in 1964, classic textbook on history, purpose, scope, clients and use of comp plans

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Rachel Carson

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brought attention to the negative effects of pesticides on the environment with her book Silent Spring written in 1962

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Jane Jacobs

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critically looked at planners and planning, particularly the mistakes of urban renewal in her book Death and Life of Great American Cities written in 1961; advocated for mixed uses, short blocks, pedestrian-scale safety with eyes on the street

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Kevin Lynch

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defined basic concepts within the City (paths, edges, nodes, districts); wrote the Image of the City in 1960

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F Stuart Chapin

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wrote Urban Land Use Planning in 1957 (common textbook on land use planning)

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Ladislas Segoe

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wrote Local Planning Administration in 1941 (first in the Greenbook series)

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Nelson Lewis

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wrote Planning of the Modern City in 1916

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Aaron Wildavsky

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Political scientist who focused on budgets and risk management

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Flavel Shurtleff

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wrote Carrying Out the City Plan in 1914 (1st major planning textbook)

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Walter Moody

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wrote Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago in 1912 (used as a textbook for 8th graders)

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George Haussman

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19th Century Plan of Paris

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John Friedman

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Transactive Theory - Decentralizing and decolonializing planning

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Herbert Simon

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Coined term “Satisficing”

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Edward Kaiser

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co-authored Urban Land Use Planning; land use strategies for hazard mitigation and environmental protection; quality of local land use plans

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Henry Wright

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designed Radburn, NJ (“town in which people could live peacefully with the automobile-or rather in spite of it”)

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George Perkins Marsh

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author of Man and Nature (1864), explored destructive impact of human action on environment and inspired conservation movement

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John Wesley Powell

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authored Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States (1878), plan that would enable settlement for the west while conserving water resources

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John Muir

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founded Sierra Club in 1892 to promote protection and preservation of environment

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Gifford Pinchot

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America’s 1st professionally trained forester; first director of US Forest Service (1905); leader in conservation movement

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John Logan and Harvey Molotch

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City as a Growth Machine Theory (1987), urban development is directed by elite members of community who control resources and benefit from development

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Charles Louis Mulford and George Kessler

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designed Denver’s parks and parkways system in 1906

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Robert Moses

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influenced development of state parks and parkways in NY; helped establish the State Council of Parks in 1923

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Judith Innes

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consensus building and collaborative planning; author of JAPA article, Planning Through Consensus Building: A New View of the Comprehensive Planning Ideal (Autumn 1996)

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Peter Drucker

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Created Management by Objective

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Louis Mumford

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Wrote “The City in History” in 1961

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Raymond Unwin

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Wrote “The Art of Buiding a Home” in 1901, influenced Arts & Crafts movement

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John Nolen

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Designed Mariemont, OH. Parks and landscape architect, designed Florida Comprehensive Plan

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Clarence Stein

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Designed Sunnyside Gardens, wrote New Town for America (1951)

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Daniel Burnham

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city beautiful movement; White City Chicago’s world fair; 1909 plan for Chicago (applied principles of monumental city design and City Beautiful Movement)

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Ebenezer Howard

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garden city movement (to overcome social inequalities and economic inefficiencies of urban areas); author of Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898

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Pierre L’Enfant

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original plan for Washington DC

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Andres Duany

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advocate for new urbanism; designed Seaside FL in 1982

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Joel Garreau

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wrote Edge City in 1991, edge city is a distinct place that has at least 5 mil sq ft of office, 600,000 sq ft of retail and more jobs than bedrooms

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le Corbusier

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radiant city (skyscrapers for high density living and working, surrounded by commonly owned park space), superblocks, separated uses

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James Oglethorpe

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founder of the colony of Georgia; design for Savannah, complex gridiron with a main axis and interlinking gardens and squares

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Jacob Riis

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housing activist in NYC; wrote How the Other Half Lives in 1890 and Children of the Poor (social reform)

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Clarence Perry

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neighborhood unit concept, published concept in New York City and its Environs in 1929

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Norman Krumholz

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Cleveland’s planning director (1969 – 1979); strong proponent of equity in planning

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Paul Davidoff

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father of advocacy planning; argued planners should not be value-neutral public servant, but should represent special interest groups

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Saul Alinsky

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Back of Yards movement; advocacy planning; vision of planning centered on community organizing

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Charles Lindblom

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wrote the Science of Muddling Through; incremental planning, which acknowledged that changes are made in increments

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Victor Gruen

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Early anti-sprawl and pedestrian mall advocate. Distinguished unifunctional vs multifunctional centers (mixture of land uses and types)

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Paul Lawrence

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Sociologist who studied organizational change. Wrote “Driven” as unified theory of human behavior

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Lincoln Steffens

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Wrote “The Shame of Cities” along with Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker. The first muckraker

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Robert Hunter

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Settlement House movement advocate (incl. Hull House)

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Joseph Hodnut

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Wrote “Architecture and the Spirit of Man.” Bauhaus advocate and big deal academic

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Lawrence Haworth

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Wrote “The Good City” and argued philosophy was important in City design

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TJ Kent

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Wrote “The Urban General Plan”, a seminal planning textbook. Member of Telesis and SF Planning Director

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Alan Altshuler

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Big critic of Comprehensive Planning in “The Goals of Comprehensive Planning”

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Camillo Sittee

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Wrote “City Planning According to Artistic Principles”

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