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Review of Famous Planners for AICP Exam

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Edward Bassett   show
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Alfred Bettman   show
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Daniel Hudson Burnham   show
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Daniel Hudson Burnham   show
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Paul Davidoff   show
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Patrick Geddes   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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Jane Jacobs   show
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show San Francisco - served as the coordinator for housing, planning, and development. Wrote "The Urban General Plan".  
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Pierre Charles L'Enfant   show
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Kevin Lynch   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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show Outspoken critic of the Regional Plan of NY 1929. Prolific author - "The Culture of Cities" (1938)- inspired city and regional planning efforts.  
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show Co-designer of Forest Hills and Riverside, IL. Site planner for the 1893 Columbian Exposition  
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Fredrick Law Olmsted, Jr.   show
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Clarence Arthur Perry   show
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show His model company town, he tried to combine the industrialist's need for efficiency with the worker's need for decent housing  
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Jacob Riis   show
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Charlotte Rumbold   show
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Mary K. Simkhovitch   show
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Clarence S. Stein   show
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Catherine Bauer   show
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show Father of the Neighborhood Unit Concept, wrote "Housing for the Mechanic Age" (1939) and "Regional Survey of New York and its Environs" (1929).  
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show Wrote "Broadacre City - A New Community Plan" (1935)  
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Ebenezer Howard   show
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show Wrote "Design with Nature" 1971    
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Jacob Riis   show
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Jacobs, Jane   show
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Kevin Lynch   show
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Lewis Mumford   show
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Patrick Geddes   show
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show Wrote "Ladder of Citizen Participation"  
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Peter Calthorpe   show
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show Father of Neighborhood Organizing Movement, 1940's Back of the Yards (Chicago) from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Rules for Radicals 1971. Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)1940  
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show The organization uses boycotts to initiate change, a paid organizer is used to organize people and an invitation is given to members of a community to participate in the organization.  
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show Known as "Great Expediter" leading city planner in 1920's replacing Burnham. "If the ends don't justify the means, than what the hell does." Portland, OR program of public improve. NY region over 400 miles of parkways-Triborough Bridge, Jones Beach  
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Thomas Adams   show
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Rachel Carson   show
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show Head of the Resettlement Administration under FDR - began work on the greenbelt communities  
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show Wrote Edge City - Life on the New Frontier, 1991, about the end of central city growth, population and economic activity shifting to suburbs, and the urban secession and other autonomy struggles that arise  
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Catherine Bauer   show
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John Muir   show
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Richard Babcock   show
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show Knonw for "Street Life Project" (1969) - Authored several texts about urban planning and design and human behavior in various urban spaces.  
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Saul Alinsky   show
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show 1916 - First full time city planner in the US, wrote the comprehensive plan for St. Louis, & owned a private consulting firm.  
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Alfred Bateman   show
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show Known for theory of incrementalism in policy and decsion making as described in his work the "The Science of Muddling Through" - 1959  
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show Associated with the development of equity planning theory. Was head of Cleveland’s city planning from 1969 -1979.  
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show Introduced the concept of Satisficing  
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show Research focus is on processes of urbanization, knonw for many publications including "Planning in the public domain : from knowledge to action" (1987)  
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show Modern planning theorist - famous for work on socioeconomics and communitarianism believes individual rights and aspirations should be protected but that they should be inserted into a sense of the community  
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show Responsible for the 19th century Plan of Paris  
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show Known for 1972 book "Should Trees Have Standing?" discussed the authority to file suit in the Sierra Club v. Morton, Secretary of the Interior case where the Sierra Club attempted to block the development of a ski resort in the Sequoia National Forest.  
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Peter Drucker   show
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show Commonly associated with the term "Growth Machine"  
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show Urban sociologist - research, provided the foundation for The Chicago School. In "The City" described the city into the concentric zones (Concentric ring model), central business district, transitional, working class, residential, and commuter/suburban  
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Homer Hoyt   show
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show Major contribution to social theory of urban space was a classic essay "Urbanism as a Way of Life" interests included city life, minority group behaviour and mass media and he is recognised as one of the leading urban sociologists.  
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Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann   show
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show Known for the "Sector Model" aka Theory of Axial Development (1939)  
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show Proposed Multi-Nuclei Model in 1945 - progressive integration of a number of separate nuclei. Nodes become specialized by attributes: accessibility, compatibility, incompatibility and sustainability.  
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show Concentric zone model with CBD in center and residential in outer zones. Pattern of “Invasion and Succession” would change pattern with inner zones pushing outer zones further out (1920s).  
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show Focus on improving the quality of local land use plans and and developing land use planning strategies for hazard mitigation and environmental protection. Famous book "Urban Land Use Planning" 5th ed.  
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Randall Arendt   show
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show New Urbanist "The Geography of Nowhere" " The City in Mind" Anti Modernism, Strip Malls, & Sprawl  
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