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Planning People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rexford Tugwell | Resettlement Administration head.worked on greenbelt cities program,construction of new self-sufficient cities.closely involved in the development of Arthurdale,WV Resettlement Administration community.NY City Planning Commissioner governor of Puerto Rico |
| Sir Raymond Unwin | was an English town planner and designer of Letchworth. He later lectured at the University of Birmingham in England and Columbia University. |
| Catherine Bauer Wurster | founder of American housing policy. worked to reform policy related to housing and city planning.served as executive secretary of the Regional Planning Association of America.wrote Modern Housing. Influential in the passage of the Housing Act of 1937. |
| John Norquist | Author, mayor, and head of the Congress for New Urbanism |
| Confluence Greenway Partnership | A group working to reconnect St Louis to the river, including nonprofit agencies, who won the current topic award from APA in 2002 |
| Aaron Wildavsky | They said: ʺa budget...may be characterized as a series of goals with price tags attachedʺ |
| John Norquist | wrote ʺThe Wealth of Citiesʺ |
| James Rouse | designed Colombia, MD |
| Jacob Riis | wrote ʺHow the Other Half Livesʺ |
| Patrick Geddes | Who was the pioneer of the live/work/play concept? |
| Sherry Arnstein | wrote the ʺLadder of Citizen Participationʺ |
| Frederick Olmsted, Jr. | designed Forest Hills Gardens & was the 1st president of American City Planning Institute |
| Herbert Hoover | involved in creating the Zoning Enabling Act |
| Robert Weaver | HUD's first secretary |
| Charles Lindblom | wrote ʺThe Intelligence of Demoracyʺ |
| Olmsted & Vaux | designed Riverside, IL |
| Stein & Wright | planned Radburn, NJ & Sunnyside Gardens |
| Harland Bartholomew | the first full-time planner hired by a city |
| Catherine Bauer Wurster | wrote 1934's ʺModern Housingʺ |
| Saul Alinsky | involved with an organizational approach that has invitations sent out by the neighborhood and a paid organizer is then sent to the neighborhood |
| Robert Moses | the leading person on city planning in the 1920s and the ʺgreat expediterʺ |
| George Pullman | created a model town for his company and employees near Chicago |
| Sir Ebenezer Howard | wrote ʺTomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Reformʺ |
| Daniel Burnham | said, ʺMake no little plans...ʺ |
| Thomas Adams | prepared ʺThe Regional Survey of New Yorkʺ |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | wrote: Broadmore City - A New Community Plan in 1935 |
| Edward Bassett | considered the ʺfather of zoningʺ |
| Harland Bartholomew | created Comp Plan for St Louis, was the first full-time planner hired by a city, and was the chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission |
| Charles Lindblom | wrote the ʺIntelligence of Democracyʺ |
| Patrick Geddes | the father of regional planning |
| James Rouse | pioneered indoor shopping malls |
| Walter Christaller | Central Place Theory is attributed to: |
| Olmsted & Vaux | Designed Central Park |
| James Oglethorpe | the founding father of Savannah, GA |
| John Logan & Harvey Molotch | "Growth Machine" authors |
| Harland Bartholomew | He was the country's first full-time planning consultant. |
| Alfred White | Completed "home buildings" for poor immigrants & inaugurates - a model tenement movement. |
| Olmsted & Vaux | planned Riverside, IL, a rural suburban development |
| Henry Clay | "American System" to allocate federal funds to combine tariffs with infrastructure improvements |
| Paul Davidoff | developed the concept of ʺadvocacy planningʺ and founded the Suburban Action Institute |
| Kevin Lynch | wrote ʺImage of the Cityʺ |
| William Whyte | involved in the Street Life Project and assisted in drafting the 1969 NYC Comp Plan |
| William Levitt | changed the face of suburbs in America by producing 2 bedroom houses quickly & cheaply |
| Catherine Bauer | was a public housing activist, involved with Lewis Mumford, & co-authored Housing Act |
| Lewis Mumford | was instrumental in forming the Regional Planning Association of America and wrote many books on the history of cities |
| Robert Moses | was the master builder of 20th Century NYC, the most powerful in local government from the '30s to '50s, and ʺruinedʺ the South Bronx |
| Le Corbusier | was responsible for the Modernist movement, and furthered significant plans for post-war development |
| Clarence Stein | helped plan San Diego's World Fair and collaborated with Wright on Radburn, NJ |
| Alfred Bettman | saved zoning in Euclid v. Ambler and spearheaded the first legislation to establish citizen planning commissions |
| Frederick Olmsted, Jr. | was the first president of the American City Planning Institute and was the president of the national Planning Conference |
| Ebenezer Howard | called for creation of Garden Cities |
| Camillo Sitte | advocated curved & irregular streets, turbine squares, and was widely taught through Europe |
| Frederick Olmsted | was the nation's foremost parkmaker, designed Central Park, and was the founder of American landscape architecture |
| Baron Haussmann | was a French civic planner who achieved new streets, water supply, boulevards, bridges, etc |
| Pierre L'Enfant | The French architect & engineer who designed Washington DC |
| Benjamin Bannecker | was a surveyor who was appointed by George Washington and located the boundary stones of the Federal District |
| Hippodamus | was the Greek architect who introduced order into the planning of cities |
| George Perkins Marsh | inspired the conservationist movement & wrote ʺMan & Natureʺ |
| John Wesley Powell | wrote the ʺReport on the Lands of the Arid Region of the USʺ |
| John Muir | founded the Sierra Club |
| Theodore Roosevelt | established the Inland Waterway Commission in 1907 |
| Gifford Pinchot | was the first professionally trained forester and the first director of the newly formed US Forest Service |
| William Alonso | Cost of land, intensity of development of the land, the concentration of the population and the number of places of employment all decline as distance from the CBD increases. |
| Logan & Molotch | They proposed that elite members of the community who control resources and have interests control urban development. |
| Edward Bassett | ʺfather of zoningʺ |
| Daniel Burnham | ʺfather of city planningʺ |
| Ian McHarg | ʺfather of modern ecologyʺ |
| Lawrence Veiller | ʺfather of the modern housing codeʺ |
| Paul Davidoff | ʺfather of advocacy planningʺ |
| Thomas Jefferson & John Hector St. John | responsible for the ʺagrarian philosophyʺ |
| Adam Smith | responsble for the ʺlaissez faireʺ philosophyʺ |
| Peter Calthorpe | founded the Congress for New Urbanism |
| Simon | concept was ʺsatisficingʺ |
| Burgess | associated with Concentric Ring theory |
| Sir Raymond Unwin | designed Letchworth |
| deSoissons | designed Welwyn |
| Robert Moses | replaced Daniel Burnham as the expert in city planning |
| Olmsted | designed Riverside, IL |
| Robert Moses | designed the Bronx River Parkway |
| Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe | Developed the Cincinnati Plan 1925 |
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