People in Planning Flashcards
Charles Abrams
Created NY Housing Authority “The city is the Frontier”
Catherine Bauer Wurster
A founder of American policy and worked to reform policy related to housing and city planning.
Rachel Carson
Author of Silent Spring, a book documenting the effects of environmental pesticides.
Robert Moses
Transformed NYC’s public works 30’s-50’s which included highways, parks, and public housing. Clashed with Jane Jacobs to build a highway through Greenich Village
Jane Jacobs
Provided a critical look at planners and planning. Mistakes of urban renewal. “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”
Charles Lindblom
American political scientist who focused on incrementalism as a decision-making model. “The Science of Muddling Through” (1959)
Ebenezer Howard
“Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform” (1898) Initiated Garden City movement
Frederick Law Olmstead Sr.
Landscape architect who designed Riverside IL and Central Park (with Calvert Vaux)
Clarence Perry
Developed neighborhood unit concept implemented in Radburn NJ and key contributor to 1929 Regional Survey of NY and its Environs
Paolo Soleri
Architect designed Arcosanti experimental utopian city in AZ focused on minimizing impact of development on natural environment.
Ian McHarg
“Design with Nature” focused on conservation design using overlay technique that was later the basis for GIS
Kevin Lynch
“The Image of the City” (1960) Groundbreaking look at how city is viewed by its residents. Farmers also for mental mapping studies
Charlotte Rumbold
Early 20th century housing and public rec activist working in St. Louis.
Le Corbusier
Modern architect and founding member of Congress International Architecture Moderne (CIAM) which advocated for separation of land uses, highways and high rise set in parks.
Jane Addams
Settlement house activist. Co-founded Hull House in Chicago. Founder of social work profession. Awarded nobel peace prize in 1931. 1899 Hull House - low-income family housing
Benton Mackaye
Planner and conservationist who founded Appalachian Trail. Member of RPAA
Frederick Law Olmstead Jr.
Influential Planner and designer. Planned Forest Hills Gardens in Queens. 1st president of American City Planning Institute.
Benjamin Marsh
Organized 1st national meeting on planning 1909 national conference on city planning in Washington DC
Jacob Riis
Wrote “How the Other Half Lives” (1890) documented squalid living conditions in NYC
Florence Kelly and Mary Simkhovitch
Veterans of NY’s settlement house movement. Founded Committee of Population in NY to look at solutions for overcrowding.
John Nolen
(1869-1937) First American to identify himself exclusively as town and city planner. Designed many towns modeled after garden cities.
Saul Alinsky
An advocate of community organizing. Published “Reville for Radicals” (1946) encouraged poor to become involved in democracy
Lewis Mumford
(1895-1990) Prolific writer on urban planning topics. “The City in History” (1961) Garden city advocate and member of RPAA
William Whyte
“The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” (1980) Promotes the use of environmental psychology, sociology in urban design
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect that advocated for low-density development “Broadacre City - A New Community Plan”
Rexford Tugwell
Served as head of Resettlement Administration during New Deal. Worked on greenbelt cities program sought construction of new, self0sufficient cities
Martin Meyerson and Edward Banfield
“Politics, Planning and the Public Interest: The Case for Public Housing in Chicago” (1955) case study on race and public housing
Harland Bartholomew
1st full-time public sector planner in the US
F Stuart Chapin
“Urban Land Use Planning” (1957) Common textbook for planning (land use)
Sherry Arnstein
“A ladder of Citizen Participation” Journal of APA. Describes levels of individuals by citizens depending upon form of participation utilized.
Norman Krumholz
Equity planning in Cleveland during 70’s and helped make needs of low-income groups the highest priority
TJ Kent
“Urban General Plan” (1964) Considered key reference for comp planning for many decades
Paul Davidoff
“Advocacy Planner” founded suburban action institute. Members challenged exclusionary zoning in courts.. Won Mt. Laurel case
Edward Bassett
“Father of Zoning” Helped shape standard zoning enabling act (1928) wrote 1st comprehensive for for NYC in 1916.
Patrick Geddes
Father of Regional Planning. “Cities in Evolution” (1915)
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Designed plan for DC 1791. Influenced by Garden of Versailles. Classic mixing baroque plan superimposed on a grid.
Clarence Stein
Designer of Sunnyside homes, Queens, Redburn NJ, strong proponent of Garden Cities. “Toward New Towns for America (1959) Formed RPAA
Walter Christaller
German geographer developed central place theory in 1930’s
Sir Raymond Unwin
English town planner and designer of lynchworth which was the first garden city “Town Planning in Practice” (1909)
Daniel Burnham
Chicago architect renowned for influential 1909 plan for Chicago. “Make no little plans. They have no fire to stir men’s blood”
