Planners

Question 1

Saul Alinsky

Answer 1

Saul Alinsky was an advocate of community organizing. Alinsky organized Chicago’s poor in the late 1930s and 1940s. In 1946 he published Reveille for Radicals, which encouraged those who are poor to become involved in American democracy. Later he published Rules for Radicals, which provided 13 rules for community organizing.

Question 2

Alfred Bettman

Answer 2

Alfred Bettman was the first president of ASPO. Alfred Bettman (1873-1945) was one of the key founders of modern urban planning. Zoning, as we know it today, can be attributed to his successful arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1926 decision in favor of the Village of Euclid, Ohio versus Ambler Realty Company. The concept of the “Comprehensive Plan,” as used in most cities across the U.S., was in no small part due to the work of Bettman and Ladislas Segoe on the “Cincinnati Plan.” Communities of all sizes across the U.S. may also thank Bettman for his part in creating the “Capital Improvements Budget.”

Question 3

Amitai Etzioni

Answer 3

Proposed the Mixed scanning theory