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Review of Famous Planners for AICP Exam

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Edward Bassett   show
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Alfred Bettman   show
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Daniel Hudson Burnham   show
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Daniel Hudson Burnham   show
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show Founded the Suburban Action Institute in 1969, whose members challenged exclusionary zoning in the courts, winning in the Mt. Laurel case. Developed the concept of the "advocacy planner".  
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Patrick Geddes   show
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show Published "Tomorrow, A Peaceful Path to Real Reform" in 1898, starting the Garden City Movement. The book was reissued in 1902 as "Garden Cities of Tomorrow"  
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show Author of 1961 book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities", forced its readers to rethink urban renewal and other contemporary tools of city building.  
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T.J. Kent Jr.   show
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show Plan for Washington DC - made use of grid pattern, axials, and circles.  
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show Author of "Image of the City". Focused on how users perceive and organize spatial information as they navigate through cities. Coined the words "imageability" and "wayfinding".  
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show Wrote "Design with Nature". Father of Modern Ecology/Environmental Movement. Proposed the use of transfer of development rights (TDR) to preserve landscape. Renowned for his advocacy of ecological planning and for the layered mapping techniques.  
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show Outspoken critic of the Regional Plan of NY 1929. Prolific author - "The Culture of Cities" (1938)- inspired city and regional planning efforts.  
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show Co-designer of Forest Hills and Riverside, IL. Site planner for the 1893 Columbian Exposition  
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Fredrick Law Olmsted, Jr.   show
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Clarence Arthur Perry   show
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Pullman, George   show
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show Used photography and writing to reveal the terrible conditions of the urban poor in "How The Other Half Lives" (1890) and "Children of the Poor" (1892). Led to the first federal investigation of slums and to changes in NYC's housing laws  
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show Influential in citizen planning. Helped found the Ohio Planning Conference, the 1st statewide citizen based group (1919). Won legislative support for planning enabling laws, zoning and subdivision regs, and public housing (1920-30's)  
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show Organized one of the nation's first settlement houses, Greenwich House in New York. Described in her autobiography, "Neighborhood: My Story of Greenwich House  
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Clarence S. Stein   show
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show Wrote "Modern Housing". She attributed the lack of low cost housing to the liberal intellectuals, trade unions, and planners. Considered a key housing reformer of the 20th Century  
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show Father of the Neighborhood Unit Concept, wrote "Housing for the Mechanic Age" (1939) and "Regional Survey of New York and its Environs" (1929).  
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Frank Lloyd Wright   show
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Ebenezer Howard   show
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Ian McHarg    show
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show Wrote "How the Other Half Lives" (1890) and "Children of the Poor" (1892)  
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show Wrote "The Death and Life of a Great American City" (1961)  
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show Image of the City (1960), summarizes a 5-year study on how people perceive their cities; What Time is This Place (1972), examining how time may be passed in cities and urban conservation; and Up in Cities (1977), explores how environments affect children  
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show Wrote "The Culture of Cities" (1938), The Condition of Man (1944), and The Conduct of Life (1951)  
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show Wrote "Cities in Evolution" (1915) Focus on place - Work - Folk  
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Sherry Arnstein   show
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Peter Calthorpe   show
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show Father of Neighborhood Organizing Movement, 1940's Back of the Yards (Chicago) from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Rules for Radicals 1971. Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)1940  
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Saul Alinksy     show
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Robert Moses   show
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show Secretary of the Garden City Association and the 1st manager of Letchworth, England  
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show Wrote Silent Spring, focused on the negative effects of pesticides on the environment  
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Rexford Tugwell   show
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show Wrote Edge City - Life on the New Frontier, 1991, about the end of central city growth, population and economic activity shifting to suburbs, and the urban secession and other autonomy struggles that arise  
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Catherine Bauer   show
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John Muir   show
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show Author of "The Zoning Game" (1966) observations on American zoning practice.  
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William Whyte   show
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Saul Alinsky   show
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show 1916 - First full time city planner in the US, wrote the comprehensive plan for St. Louis, & owned a private consulting firm.  
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show First president of the American Society of Planning Officals  
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Charles Lindbolm   show
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Norman Krumholz   show
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show Introduced the concept of Satisficing  
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show Research focus is on processes of urbanization, knonw for many publications including "Planning in the public domain : from knowledge to action" (1987)  
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Amitai Etzioni   show
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show Responsible for the 19th century Plan of Paris  
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show Known for 1972 book "Should Trees Have Standing?" discussed the authority to file suit in the Sierra Club v. Morton, Secretary of the Interior case where the Sierra Club attempted to block the development of a ski resort in the Sequoia National Forest.  
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Peter Drucker   show
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John Logan & Harvey Molotch   show
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show Urban sociologist - research, provided the foundation for The Chicago School. In "The City" described the city into the concentric zones (Concentric ring model), central business district, transitional, working class, residential, and commuter/suburban  
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show Known for the "Sector Model", that modified the concentric zone model of city development. Suggested that various groups expand outward from the city center along railroads, highways, and other transportation arteries.  
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show Major contribution to social theory of urban space was a classic essay "Urbanism as a Way of Life" interests included city life, minority group behaviour and mass media and he is recognised as one of the leading urban sociologists.  
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show A French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris, commissioned by Napoléon,spanning from 1852 to 1870. The project encompassed all aspects of urban planning  
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Homer Hoyt   show
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show Proposed Multi-Nuclei Model in 1945 - progressive integration of a number of separate nuclei. Nodes become specialized by attributes: accessibility, compatibility, incompatibility and sustainability.  
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Earnest Burgess   show
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show Focus on improving the quality of local land use plans and and developing land use planning strategies for hazard mitigation and environmental protection. Famous book "Urban Land Use Planning" 5th ed.  
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Randall Arendt   show
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show New Urbanist "The Geography of Nowhere" " The City in Mind" Anti Modernism, Strip Malls, & Sprawl  
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