Urban Planners

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Daniel Burnham (1846-1912)

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-Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
- master plans for the development of Chicago and downtown Washington, D.C.
-designed Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D.C.

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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903)

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- American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.
-the father of American landscape architecture
-Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City with Calvin Vaux
-Belle Isle Originally until $ interests took over
- World's Colombian Exposition
- Riverside Community
- considered planning's main goal to reduce disease.
- determined sunlight, ventilation, open space, and vegetation to be crucial to this goal

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James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785)

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- Ogletghorpe Plan for cities
- Designed Savannah Georgia

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William Penn (1644-1718)

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- founded and planned Philadelphia

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Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928)

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-Wrote Garden Cities of To-morrow
-planned/built Letchworth Garden City, near London
- Welwyn Garden City
- influenced the "New Towns" movement
- Founded the International Federation for Housing and Planning

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Edward Bassett (1863-1948)

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- wrote the first comprehensive zoning ordinance in the United States
- credited with developing the "freeway" and "parkway" concepts
- was appointed by Hoover as president of the National Conference on City Planning and his model was adopted by many states.

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Adna Weber

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- wrote The Growth of Cities in 19th Century America in 1899

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Sam Bass Warner (1889–1979)

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- Urban Historian
- Wrote Streetcar Suburbs
- Worked at Copyright Administration

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Robert Lang and Jennifer Lefurgy (contemporary)

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- popularized term boomburg

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Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754-1825)

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-French-born American architect and civil engineer
-designed the layout of the streets of Washington, D.C., the L'Enfant Plan as commissioned by George Washington

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Lawrence Veiller

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- Tenement House Exhibition of 1900
- moving force behind the 1901 Tenement House Act

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Clarence Stein and Henry Wright, landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley

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Planned Radburn, NJ

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Patrick Geddes (1854-1932)

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- advocated the civic survey as indispensable to urban planning
- introduced the concept of "region" to architecture and planning and
- coined the term "conurbation"

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Clarence Perry (1872-1944)

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- strong advocate of the Neighborhood unit.
- He was an early promoter of neighborhood community and recreation centers.

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John Nolen (1869-1937)

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- planned Mariemont, Ohio
- contracted with St. Petersburg to design Florida’s first comprehensive plan
- developed plans for the University of Wisconsin, the city of Madison, and the state park system
- noted about 15 regional plans in 1929

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Harold L Ickes (1874-1952)

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- secretary of interior under Roosevelt
- Kings Canyon National Park
- commissioning Ansel Adams as a 'photographic muralist' to show off beauty of Washington DC parks

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Rexford Tugwell (1891-1979)

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- agricultural economists under Roosevelt's "Brain Trust"
- co-created National Resources Planning Board
-co-created Resettlement Administration which sought to create healthy communities for the rural unemployed with access to urban opportunities resulting in the green belt suburbs

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Henry Wallace (1888-1965)

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- secretary of Agriculture under Roosevelt
- he provided food stamps and school lunches.
- instituted programs for land-use planning, soil conservation, and erosion control.
-promoted research to combat plant and animal diseases, to locate drought-resistant crops and to develop hybrid seeds in order to increase productivity

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Robert Verchick (? contemporary)

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- stated 3 basic rules for planning for natural disasters:
Go green, Be fair, Be safe

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Marc Reisner (1948-2000)

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- writer best known for his book Cadillac Desert, a history of water management in the American West
-published a discussion paper for the American Farmland Trust on water policy and farmland protection

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Joel Garreau (1948-present)

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coined the term "edge city" made possible by beltway highway design

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Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)

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- known for organizing grassroots efforts to protect existing neighborhoods from "slum clearance" particularly Greenwich Village
- instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through Washington Square Park