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AICP Landmark Planners and Authors

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show The "Father of Zoning". Helped shape Standard City Enabling Act 1928.  
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Bettman, Alfred   show
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show Father of city planning in US. Among city planners is renowned for the influential 1909 "Plan for Chicago". Famous for his quote, "Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood".  
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show His "White City" at the Columbian Expo inspired the "City Beautiful Movement", and his Chicago Plan (1909) gave birth to modern city planning.  
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Davidoff, Paul (1930-1984)   show
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Geddes, Patrick (1854-1932)   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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Kent, T.J. Jr. (1917- )   show
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show Plan for Washington DC - made use of grid pattern, axials, and circles.  
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Lynch, Kevin (1918-1984)   show
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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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Mumford, Lewis   show
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Olmsted, Fredrick Law, Sr. (1822-1903)   show
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Olmsted, Fredrick Law, Jr. (1870-1957)   show
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Perry, Clarence Arthur   show
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Pullman, George (1831-1897)   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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Rumbold, Charlotte   show
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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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show Co-designer of Radburn, NJ. Member of Regional Plan Association of America (RPAA).  
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Wurster, Catherine Bauer   show
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Perry, Clarence   show
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show Wrote "Broadacre City - A New Community Plan" (1935)  
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show Wrote "Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform" (1898)  
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show Wrote "Design with Nature" 1971  
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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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Lynch, Kevin   show
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show Wrote "The Culture of Cities" (1938)  
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Geddes, Patrick   show
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show Wrote "Ladder of Citizen Participation"  
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show Developed the design feature "Transit Oriented Developments" (TOD's).  
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Saul Alinksy (1909-1972)   show
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show Organizational methods: empowerment (start where people live); nonideological pragmatism=concrete interests of community; conflict tactics=any means justify the end  
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show Known as "Great Expediter" leading city planner iin 1920's replacing Burnham. "If the ends don't justify the means, than what the hell does." Portland, OR program of public improv. NY region over 400 miles of parkways-Triborough Bridge, Jones Beach.  
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