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Key Planning Books
Functional Plan Knowledge: Key Planning Books, AICP Nov 2022 Test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| "How the Other Half Lives," 1890 | Jacob Riis. Book resulted in housing and neighborhood reform in New York City. In 1880s upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Photojournalism exposed living conditions in the slums. |
| "To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform," 1898 Reprinted as "Garden Cities of To-morrow," 1902 | Ebenezer Howard. Book initiated Garden City Movement. Is a description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature. |
| "Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago," 1912 | Walter Moody. Adopted as a textbook for 8th graders. Manual taught children about Daniel Burnham's "The Plan of Chicago," 1909, 1st city plan. |
| "Carrying out the City Plan," 1914 | Flavel Shurtleff. 1st major textbook in city planning , 1st study of state planning law. Work became an indispensable tool for planners, planning commissioners, and attorneys as they developed the legal foundations and the practice of planning |
| "Cities in Evolution," 1915 | Patrick Geddess, "Father of Regional Planning." Links social reform and the urban environment. All planning should preserve the unique historic character and involve citizens in the planning of its development. These themes reemerged in 1950s and 1960s |
| "The Planning of the Modern City," 1916 | Nelson P Lewis. Focused on the physical city. Viewed the problems of city planning as engineering problems and discussed the need for a systems approach for transportation, parks and recreation, etc. to address them. |
| "Neighborhood Unit," 1929 | Clarence Perry. Developed the concept of the neighborhood unit and believed cities should be aggregates of smaller units that serve as a focus of community. He promoted public neighborhood space and pedestrian scale. |
| "Modern Housing," 1934 | Catherine Bauer Wurster. Book led to National Housing Act of 1934. Both an assessment and a political demand for a housing movement to support low rent housing and advocated for government to assure housing for all. |
| "Planning Function of Urban Government," 1941 | Robert Walker. A controversial but influential book that argued for fully integrated planning agencies within local government, and the need to move away from association with independent commissions. |
| "Local Planning Administration," 1941 | Ladislas Segoe. 1st book of the green book series produced by International City/ County Mgmt Association. Advocated for planning integration into administrative and legislative circles. Came out within months of Robert Walker's 1941 book. |
| "Urban Land Use Planning", 1957 | F. Stuart Chapin. Book become common textbook in planning. Describes the tradition of looking at planning within a political and local governmental context, but also as a competition among interests |
| "Image of the City," 1960 | Kevin Lynch. Says people create mental maps of their surroundings with five key features: paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. He also introduced wayfinding and imageability influencing the way people talk about urban space. |
| "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," 1961 | Jane Jacobs. Not a trained planner. Took critical look at planners and planning with a focus of urban renewal. Provided observations for street safety, what constituted a neighborhood, and the function it, why some remained impoverished |
| "Silent Spring," 1962 | Rachel Carlson. Book focused on the negative effects of pesticides on mosquitoes and birds. Widely credited for spurring the environmental movement. Inspired planners to consider environmental protection in daily lives and in urban development projects |
| "The Federal Bulldozer," 1964 | Martin Anderson. This book encouraging moving away from "tear down and build new and better" approach to addressing low and moderate income housing supply. Anderson became a domestic policy adviser to President Nixon and Reagan. |
| "The Urban General Plan," 1964 | TJ Kent. Planning has evolved to a "multi-layered matrix" and is no longer an ideal state. Now has problem and goal definition, program design and evaluation. Discussed purpose of the urban comprehensive plan and how it's applied. |
| "With Heritage So Rich," 1966 | Alfred Reins. Book on historical preservation. |
| "Design with Nature," 1969 | Ian McHarg. Book focused on converting design using an overlay technique that was later the basis of GIS. |
| "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, " 1980 | William Whyte. Promotes the use of environmental psychology and sociology in urban design thru examination of small spaces and how people behave in them. Aims to create healthy public spaces. |
| "The Good City," 1990 | Lawrence Haworth. Book focused on connecting a city at one end with ethical principles and the other with practical discipline of city planning. |
| "Progress and Poverty," 1879 | Henry George. Book on providing diminishing extremes of national wealth and poverty by a means of single land tax to capture the "unearned increment" of national development for public uses. |
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