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Planning Pioneers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sherry Arnstein | became a household name among planners in 1969 when she published her ground-breaking article "A Ladder of Citizen Participation" about the hierarchy of public involvement. |
| Edmund N. Bacon | Philadelphia's planning director from 1949 to 1970, is honored for bringing national attention to the rebuilding of the American city in the post-World War II era. Wrote "Design of Cities" |
| Edward Murray Bassett | He lived from 1863–1948 and chaired the commission that produced New York City's landmark 1916 zoning code plan |
| Catherine (Wurster) Bauer | Her 1934 book, Modern Housing, described the problems in housing and had a strong influence on the housing legislation of the New Deal. In the 1950s she became an equally articulate advocate for long-range planning to guide metropolitan growth |
| Edward H. Bennett | Born in Wiltshire, England, Edward H. Bennett worked with architect Daniel H. Burnham on the 1909 Plan of Chicago. |
| Alfred Bettman | a Cincinnati lawyer who drafted the bill, passed by the Ohio legislature in 1915, that enabled the creation of local planning commissions in the state |
| Daniel H. Burnham | An architect who lived 1846–1912, and is renowned for the influential 1909 Plan for Chicago, the first metropolitan-regional plan in the country |
| Paul Davidoff | Lived from 1930–1984 and founded the Suburban Action Institute in 1969, which repeatedly challenged exclusionary zoning in the courts |
| Pierre Charles L'Enfant | Known for his 1792 plan of Washington, D.C., whose radial streets and grand vistas influenced generations of American planners. Parisian born and was made a major in the Continental Army |
| Kevin Lynch | a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his alma mater. His most famous work, Image of the City was published in 1960 |
| Albert Mayer | made outstanding contributions to new town development in the United States during the 1930s and had exceptional foresight, demonstrated by his prediction in 1938 that uncontrolled suburban growth would strain transportation and erode the countryside. |
| Ian Lennox McHarg | Lived from 1920–2001, a Scottish-born landscape architect, changed the face of the planning profession through his ecological principles and approach to plans and design. In 1954, he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania |
| Robert Moses | Lived from 1888–1981 and left his mark on NYC, Long Island, and Westchester County, NY. Although never elected to public office, he was considered one of the most powerful persons in NY State government from the 1930s to the 1950s |
| Lewis Mumford | Lived from 1895–1990, author and critic, promoted the idea of planning through such books as The Culture of Cities (1938) and The City in History (1961), the latter of which received the National Book Award |
| Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. | Lived from 1822–1903, a landscape architect, designed many well-known urban parks, most notably Central Park in New York City. |
| Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. | Lived from 1870–1957 and was 1st president of the American City Planning Institute. Followed the work of his father in his lifetime commitment to wildlife conservation and national parks, including projects at the Everglades and Yosemite |
| Jacob August Riis | Lived from 1849–1914 & used photography and writing to reveal the terrible conditions of the urban poor in the U.S. Born in Denmark, & came to the US in 1870. Wrote How the Other Half Lives (1890) and The Children of the Poor (1892) |
| Harland Bartholomew | first planner ever to be put on staff by an American city. It was Newark, New Jersey, that hired Bartholomew to work on a comprehensive plan in 1914, a year after he started his planning career. |
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