People in Planning

Question 1

Charles Abrams

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created the New York Housing Authority and wrote “The City is the Frontier”

Question 2

Thomas Adams

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important planner in the Garden City movement and secretary of the Garden City Association. First manager of Letchworth, UK

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Saul Allinsky

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advocated for community organizing for Chicago’s poor, wrote “Reveille for Radicals.” Advocated for poor people to become more involved in American Democracy

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Daniel Burnham

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prominent leader of City Beautiful movement and lead force behind the 1893 Colombian Exposition and 1909 Plan of Chicago

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Robert Moses

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NYC public works director who transformed public works in the city from 1930s-1950s by expanding infrastructure

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John Nolen

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created the first comprehensive plan in FL, contributed to park system in Madison, WI, and designed Venice, FL. First American to identify himself exclusively as a town/city planner

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Frederick Law Olmstead Sr

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considered the father of landscape architecture and created NYC’s Central and Prospect parks. Also designed Riverside, IL.

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Clarence Perry

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developed the neighborhood unit concept which was implemented in Radburn, NJ. Author of “Regional Survey of New York and its Environs”

Question 9

Paolo Soleri

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architect responsible for designing Arcosanti, AZ, which was an experimental utopian city which focused on minimizing the impact of development on the natural environment

Question 10

Clarence Stein

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designed garden suburbs in US including Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, NY and Radburn, NJ. Major proponent of the Garden City and wrote “New Town for America”

Question 11

Rexford Tugwell

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served as the head of the Resettlement Administration during the New Deal, worked closely on greenbelt city programs and sought destruction of new, self-sufficient cities

Question 12

Sir Raymond Unwin

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English town planner and designer of Letchworth, and wrote “Town Planning in Practice”

Question 13

Catherine Bauer Wurster

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founder of American housing policy, worked to reform policy related to housing and city planning. Served as executive secretary for the Regional Planning Association of America and wrote “Modern Housing.” Influential in the passage of the Housing Act of 1937

Question 14

Ernest Burgess

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creator of the Concentric Circle Theory, and sociologist who studied growth in Chicago

Question 15

Homer Hoyt

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real estate developer in Chicago who created the Sector Theory

Question 16

Chauncey Harris

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geographer who created the Multiple Nuclei Theory

Question 17

Edward Ullman

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scholar and urban geographer who created the Multiple Nuclei Theory

Question 18

Walter Christaller

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creator of the Central Place Theory

Question 19

Rachel Carson

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Author of “Silent Spring”

Question 20

Jane Jacobs

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provided a critical look at planners and planning with a focus on the mistakes of urban renewal. Authored “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”

Question 21

Charles Lindblom

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

Question 22

Ebenezer Howard

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initiated the Garden City movement with his book “Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

Question 23

Ian McHarg

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wrote “Design of Nature” and focused on conservation design using an overlay technique which would become basis of GIS

Question 24

Kevin Lynch

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famous for his mental maps and studies on how a city is seen by its residents. Wrote “The Image of the City”

Question 25

Sherry Arnstein

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famous for work on public particiation and wrote “A Ladder of Citizenship Participation”

Question 26

Edward Bassett

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known as the father of zoning. Helped create the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act and wrote NYC’s first comprehensive zoning code

Question 27

Paul Davidoff

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developed the concept of advocacy planning and founded the Suburban Action Institute which challenged exclusionary zoning in courts and won the Mount Laurel case

Question 28

Patrick Geddes

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known as the father of regional planning and wrote “Cities in Evolution”

Question 29

Pierre Charles L’Enfant

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designed the plan for Washington, D.C. and was inspired by classic, monumental, baroque plans superimposed on a grid

Question 30

Frank Lloyd Wright

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American architect who created the broadacre city in his book “Broadacre City- A New Community Plan”

Question 31

Charlotte Rumbled

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early 20th century housing and public recreation activist working in St. Louis, MO

Question 32

Le Corbusier

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modern architect and founding member of CIAM which advocated functional separation of land uses, highways, and high rises set in parks

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Jane Addams

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settlement house activist who co-founded the Hull House in Chicago, awarded a Nobel Peace Prize

Question 34

Benton MacKaye

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planner and conservationist who founded the Appalachian Trail. Member of the RPAA

Question 35

Frederick Law Olmstead Jr

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first president of the American City Planning Institute. Planned Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, NYC

Question 36

Jacob Riis

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documented squalid living conditions in NYC in his book “How the Other Half Lives”

Question 37

Benjamin Marsh

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Organized the first national meeting on planning, the 1909 National Conference on City Planning in Washington, D.C.

Question 38

Haraland Bartholomew

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first full time public sector planner in the US

Question 39

Lewis Mumford

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prolific author on urban planning topics, member of RPAA, and wrote “The City in History”. Garden City advocate

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TJ Kent

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author of “The Urban General Plan” which was considered the key reference for comprehensive planning many decades

Question 41

William Whyte

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promoted the use of environmental psychology and sociology in urban design through his book “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces”

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Norman Krumholz

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adoped equity planning in Cleveland, OH and helped make the needs of low income groups the highest priority