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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wrote Man and Nature 1864 | George Perkins Marsh |
| Wrote Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States 1878 | John Wesley Powell |
| Founded Sierra Club in 1892 | John Muir |
| Established Inland Waterway Commission in 1907 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 26th President in 1901 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Staunch supporter of the Conservation Movement | Theodore Roosevelt |
| America's first professionally trained forester | Gifford Pinchot |
| Leader of the Conservation Movement | Gifford Pinchot |
| Advocated for the preservation and scientific management of natural resources | Gifford Pinchot |
| First Director of the U.S. Forest Service in 1905 | Gifford Pinchot |
| Wrote The Last Landscape in 1959 | William Whyte |
| Coined the term "greenway" | William Whyte |
| Wrote pioneering study on conservation easements | William Whyte |
| Wrote Silent Spring in 1962 | Rachel Carson |
| Established first National Wildlife Refuge 1903 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Concentric Ring Theory 1925 | Ernest Burgess |
| Sector Theory 1939 | Homer Hoyt |
| Multiple Nuclei Theory 1945 | Chauncey Harris and Edward Ullman |
| Bid Rent Theory 1960 | William Alonso |
| City as Growth Machine Theory 1987 | John Logan and Harvey Molotch |
| Designed Central Park in NYC 1851 | Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. and Calvert Vaux |
| Designed Denver's Parks and Parkways System 1906 | Charles Mulford Robinson and George Kessler |
| Drafted A State Park Plan for New York 1923 | Robert Moses |
| Influential in the establishment of State Council of Parks 1923 | Robert Moses |
| Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) implemented under his administration | Jimmy Carter |
| Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) phased out under his administration | Ronald Reagan |
| Empowerment/Enterprise Zones created under his administration | Bill Clinton |
| Signed legislation creating the National Trust for Historic Preservation | Harry Truman |
| Wrote Chicago Plan 1909 | Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett |
| Coined the term "Radiant City" | Le Corbusier |
| Wrote Disappearing City 1932 | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Coined the term "Broadacre City" | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Prior to WWII low density development he advocated for an auto-oriented sprawl | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Wrote Urbanism as a Way of Life 1938 | Louis Wirth |
| Pioneered the development of indoor shopping malls in the 1950's | James Rouse |
| Used the model of a colonial village to build the planned community of Columbia Maryland in the 1960's | James Rouse |
| Rejuvenated dying downtowns by introducing festival market places | James Rouse |
| Planned/built Fanueil Hall in Boston | James Rouse |
| Planned/built Inner Harbor in Baltimore | James Rouse |
| Planned/built South Street Seaport in NYC | James Rouse |
| Wrote Image of the City | Kevin Lynch |
| Wrote Death and Life of Great American Cities 1961 | Jane Jacobs |
| Advocated for a mix of uses & short blocks & pedestrian-scale development | Jane Jacobs |
| Planned Arcosanti development in Arizona | Paulo Soleri |
| Advocate for underground mega-structures | Paulo Soleri |
| Wrote The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces 1980 | William Whyte |
| Planned Seaside Florida 1982 | Andres Duany |
| Advocate for new urbanism or neotraditional design | Andres Duany |
| Wrote Making City Planning Work 1985 | Allan Jacobs |
| Wrote Great Streets 1995 | Allan Jacobs |
| Wrote Edge Cities 1991 | Joel Garreau |
| Wrote Edgeless Cities 2002 | Robert Lang |
| Planned Philadelphia PN in late 1600's as rectangular grid | William Penn |
| Planned Annapolis MD in 1695 | Francis Nicholson |
| Planned Williamsburg VA | Francis Nicholson |
| Planned Washington DC in 1710 applying principles of monumental design | Pierre L'Enfant |
| Planned Savannah GA featuring a central public square in 1733 | James Oglethorpe |
| Planned Detroit MI in 1807 with plan that was never fully realized utilizing interlocking hexagons | Judge Woodward |
| Cointed the term "Garden City" | Ebenezer Howard |
| Planned Riverside IL in 1868 as a garden suburb | Frederick Law Olmsted Sr and Calvert Vaux |
| Built first safety elevator in 1857 in NYC to make high-rise buildings feasible | Elisha Otis |
| Planned Forest Hill Gardens in Long Island NY in 1911 | Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. |
| Mariemont Ohio's founder and benefactor | Mary Emery |
| Planned Mariemont OH | John Nolen |
| Planned Sunnyside Gardens in Queens NY 1924-1928 | Clarence Stein and Henry Wright |
| Planned Radburn New Jersey inspired by Ebenezer Howard's Garden CIty in 1928 | Clarence Stein and Henry Wright |
| Developed the model that changed house building using production building or assembly line style of house building | Alfred and William Levitt |
| Designed World's Columbian Exposition fairgrounds using principles of the City Beautiful movement | Daniel Burnham |
| Two proponents of monumental design | Pierre L'Enfant and Daniel Burnham |
| Founded Hull House in Chicago 1889 | Jane Addams |
| Wrote How the Other Half Lives 1890 | Jacob Riis |
| Wrote Children of the Poor 1892 | Jacob Riis |
| Photojournalist who provided a stimulus to housing reform with the publication of two books | Jacob Riis |
| Helped draft the 1901 Tenement House Law | Lawrence Veiller |
| Housing reformer in NYC who wrote Housing Reform in 1910 | Lawrence Veiller |
| Social worker and housing reformer who was active in the settlement movement in NYC | Mary Simkhovitch |
| Founded Greenwich House in Greenwich Village NYC 1902 | Mary Simkhovitch |
| Wrote Modern Housing 1934 | Catherine Bauer Wurster |
| Section 8 housing established during his administration | Richard Nixon |
| Manufactured Housing Improvement Act enacted during his administration | Bill Clinton |
| Planned/built Pullman Illinois 1880-1884 | George Pullman |
| U.S. Resettlement Administration director | Rexford Tugwell |
| Promoted his concept in part to overcome the social inequalities and economic inefficiencies of urban areas | Ebenezer Howard |
| Wrote Garden Cities of Tomorrow 1898 | Ebenezer Howard |
| Wrote about neighborhood unit in Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs 1929 | Clarence Perry |
| Cleveland's Planning Director 1969-1979 | Norman Krumholz |
| Proponent of equity planning | Norman Krumholz |
| Father of regional planning | Patrick Geddes |
| Wrote Cities in Evolution 1915 | Patrick Geddes |
| Wrote New York City Zoning Code 1916 | Edward Bassett |
| Used a cumulative approach to zoning | Edward Bassett |
| First full-time planner employed by an American city 1916 | Harold Bartholomew |
| First planner of City of St. Louis | Harold Bartholomew |
| Developed early comprehensive plans that later developed into conventional prescriptions for comprehensive planning by local governments | Harold Bartholomew |
| First President of the American City Planning Institute 1917 | Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. |
| Prepared plans for Detroit & Utica & Boulder & New Haven & Pittsburgh & Rochester & and Newport | Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. |
| President's administration that created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) 1933 | Franklin Roosevelt |
| Instrumental in the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | Senator George Norris of Nebraska |
| First long-term director of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | David Lilienthal |
| Wrote Urban Land Use Planning 1957 | F. Stuart Chapin |
| Wrote The Urban General Plan 1964 | T.J. Kent |
| Wrote Design with Nature 1969 | Ian McHarg |
| Linked to overlay of layers used today with GIS | Ian McHarg |
| First espoused incremental planning | Charles Lindblom |
| Three leading theorists of advocacy planning | Saul Alinsky & Sherry Arnstein & Paul Davidoff |
| Developed a vision of planning centered around community organizing | Saul Alinsky |
| Wrote Ladder of Participation 1969 | Sherry Arnstein |
| Father of advocacy planning | Paul Davidoff |
| Argued that planners should not be value-neutral public servants but should represent special needs and interest groups | Paul Davidoff |
| Developed Planning Programming Budgetary System (PPBS) at U.S. Department of Defense | Robert McNamara |
| Encouraged environmentally conscious approach to land use | Ian McHarg |
| Published several books between 1945 and 1972 | Saul Alinsky |
| Published several papers especially during the 1960's re advocacy planning | Paul Davidoff |
| Designed first limited access highway 1926 | Robert Moses |
| Successfully lobbied the state government to establish the State Council of Parks in 1923 | Robert Moses |
| New Deal Program implemented under his administration | Franklin Roosevelt |