| 1. | Howard, Ebenezer (1850-1928) | | | This is the planning theory based on the work Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Movement. (Books: Tomorrow: A peaceful path to Real Reform)
www.rickmansworthherts.freeserve.co.uk |
| 2. | Peirce, Neal | | | Writes on metropolitan regions and their political and economic dynamics, their emerging national and global roles. (Books: The Book of America: Inside 50 States Today; Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World; Breakthroughs: Recreating The American City). ).
www.citistates.com |
| 3. | Kemmis, Daniel | | | Widely regarded as the Mountain Wests leading contemporary thinker and writer on topics of community, regionalism and human society. (Books: Community and the Politics of Place, The Good City and the Good Life).
www.citistates.com |
| 4. | Kunstler, James Howard | | | Kunstler believes a lot of people share his feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. (Books: The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere).
www.kunstler.com |
| 5. | Downs, Anthony | | | Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He was for 18 years a member and then Chairman of Real Estate Research Corporation, a nationwide consulting firm advising private and public decision-makers on real estate investment, housing policies, and urban affairs.
www.anthonydowns.com |
| 6. | Duany, Andres | | | Company. With the latter firm, he has co-designed the new urbanist towns of Seaside and Kentlands, along with more than 140 other neighborhoods, towns, and cities. (Books: Suburban Nation).
www.cnu.org |
| 8. | Holtz, Jane Kay | | | Architecture and planning critic for The Nation and author. She has written for Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Preservation and Sierra. (Books: Asphalt Nation, Preserving New England and Lost Boston).
www.janeholtzkay.com |
| 9. | Burnham, Daniel (1846-1912) | | | Burnham gained an even greater reputation for his influence as a city planner. He supervised the laying out and construction of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and, in 1909, Burnham and his assistant Edward H. Bennett (Michigan Avenue Bridge) prepared The Plan for Chicago.
www.ci.chi.il.us |
| 10. | Salingaros, Nikos A. | | | in built structures. (Books: Principles of Urban Structure, A Theory of Architecture).
www.math.utsa.edu |
| 11. | Staley, Samuel | | | Director of the Urban Futures Program of the Reason Public Policy Institute. (Books: Smarter Growth: Market-based Land-use Planning for the 21st Century).
www.rppi.org |
| 12. | O'Toole, Randal | | | Economist and director of the Oregon-based Thoreau Institute since 1975. He has also been an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute since 1995. (Books: The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths).
www.urbanfutures.org |
| 13. | Rusk, David | | | Author, consultant, and leading American regionalist who combines scholarship with practical political experience. Former state legislator in New Mexico and mayor of Albuquerque, the nations 36th largest city. (Books: Cities without Suburbs).
www.citistates.com |
| 14. | Altshuler, Alan A. | | | Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Director of A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and the Rappaport Institute. (Books: The City Planning Process; Community Control: Black Demand for Particpation in Large American Cities; Urban Transportation Systems; Future of the Automobile; Regulation for Revenue; Political Economy of Land Use Exactions; Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America).
www.gsd.harvard.edu |
| 16. | Penn, William (1644-1718) | | | Penn's holy experiment and plan was idealistic to the point of utopianism. He wanted to establish a society that was godly, virtuous and exemplary for all of humanity.
xroads.virginia.edu |
| 17. | Calthorpe, Peter | | | A practicing architect and planner and a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, he advocates smart growth in the form of dense, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly communities.(Books: Sustainable Communities; The Next American Metropolis; Ecology, Community, and the American Dream; The Regional City).
www.calthorpe.com |
| 18. | Krier, Leon | | | Krier may be best known to Americans as the architect behind the Prince of Wales's new town of Poundbury in Dorset, England, and as the intellectual godfather of the New Urbanism movement in America. (Books: Architecture: Choice of Fate).
applied.math.utsa.edu |
| 19. | Burchell, Robert | | | Professor at the Center for Urban Policy Research, is the author of 25 books and more than 50 articles, is an expert on fiscal impact analysis, land-use development and regulation, and housing policy. Dr. Burchell co-authored the Development Impact Assessment Handbook for The Urban Land Institute. (Books: The Fiscal Impact Hand-book; The New Practitioner's Guide to Fiscal Impact Analysis; The Adaptive Reuse Handbook; The Environmental Impact Handbook).
policy.rutgers.edu |
| 20. | Harvey, David | | | A geographer concerned with environmental justice and uneven development, Harvey writes devastating descriptions of current urban situations, and offers a new framework for questioning design decisions. (Books: The Urban Experience, Spaces of Hope)
www.jhu.edu |
| 21. | Garreau, Joel | | | Best-selling author and the editor in charge of cultural revolution reporting at The Washington Post. (Books: Edge City, The Nine Nations of North America).
www.edge.org |
| 22. | Soleri, Paolo | | | Author, visionary, architect, and pioneer of new human spaces. (Books: Arcosanti - An Urban Laboratory; Technology and Cosmogenesis; The Omega Seed; The Bridge Between Matter and Spirit is Matter Becoming Spirit; The City in the Image of Man).
www.arcosanti.org |
| 23. | Fulton, William | | | Journalist, urban planner, researcher, pundit, and best-selling author. Regarded as one of the nation's leading commentators on urban planning, metropolitan growth, and economic development.(Books: Guide to California Planning, California Land and Legacy).
www.citistates.com |
| 24. | McHarg, Ian (1920-2001) | | | McHarg's career has influenced several generations of architects, planners, and landscape architects. He was an environmentalist before it was fashionable. (Books: Design with Nature).
www.csiss.org |
| 25. | Newman, Oscar | | | Influential author proposes using the physical restructuring of housing projects and residential communities to reduce crime and improve stability. (Books: Defensible Space)
www.defensiblespace.com |
| 26. | Zukin, Sharon | | | Sociologist explores the inter-relations of economic, social, and political power that shape urban form. (Books: Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disneyworld, The Cultures of Cities)
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu |
| 27. | Chapin, Jr., F. Stuart | | | Pioneer in the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina. Spent nearly four decades establishing and improving the department's urban studies curriculum. Distinguished Service Award from the American Institute of Planners, as well as the Historic Planning Pioneer Award. (Books: Urban Land Use Planning).
carolinafirst.unc.edu |
| 28. | Moses, Robert (1888-1981) | | | New York state and municipal official whose ambitious public works projects of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s transformed the urban landscape of New York City.
www.noguchi.org |
| 29. | Davis, Mike | | | and the extinction of public spaces have influenced many theorists and designers working to create a more livable city. (Books: City of Quartz; Ecology of Fear)
www.laweekly.com |
| 30. | Huxtable, Ada Louise | | | Architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal, she advocates for preservation and cities as places of contrast. (Book: The Unreal America)
www.pbs.org |
| 31. | Katz, Peter | | | Author and real estate marketing consultant, he argues that New Urbanism integrates modern life into pedestrian-friendly communities with effective links to their larger regions. (Books: The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community)
www.annonline.com |
| 32. | Rybczynski, Witold | | | Urbanist and critic advocates the advantages of smaller homes as land becomes more expensive.
www.theatlantic.com |
| 33. | Berman, Marshall | | | and proposes that the urban realities of the marketplace are neither fixed nor immutable. (Book: All That is Solid Melts into Air)
eserver.org |
| 34. | Massey, Doreen | | | Geographer critiques globalization and regional uneven development and proposes a need to understand the new urban context of disorder and diversity. (Books: Cities for the Many Not the Few, Space, Place, and Gender)
www.civiccentre.org |
| 35. | Gehl, Jahn | | | (Book: Life Between Buildings)
www.rudi.net |
| 36. | Jacobs, Allan | | | Urban Designer and Professor, Jacobs has observed street users and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. Books: Making City Planning Work, Great Streets, Boulevard Book.
www.acsp.org |
| 37. | Castells, Manuel | | | Leading urban theorist since the 1960's. His work has moved from early Marxist analyses of the city, to an analysis of grass roots urban movements in the city, to a later interest in the impact of information technology on urban development. Books: The City and the Grassroots; City, Class, and Power)
sociology.berkeley.edu |
| 38. | Geddes, Patrick (1854-1932) | | | he developed the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, advanced ideas for the renovation of old housing and the planning and building of new homes, and advocated using the Camera Obscura as a teaching medium. (Book: Cities in evolution: An introduction to the Town Planning movement and the Studies of Civics.)
www.ballaterscotland.com |
| 39. | Smithson, Peter and Allison | | | Although they are also both practicing architects, the Smithsons gained most of their recognition through their involvement with Team 10 and its overthrow of old CIAM philosophies.
www.greatbuildings.com |
| 40. | DeGrove, John | | | Teaches growth management (smart growth) with a special focus on initiatives to contain sprawl and ensure sustainable urban and natural systems. Florida Atlantic University Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems Director from 1972 until February 1999. (Books: Land, Growth and Politics; Balanced Growth: A Planning Guide for Local Government).
www.jc.fau.edu |
| 41. | Kotkin, Joel | | | offers commentary, articles, consulting, his schedule, and a biography.
www.joelkotkin.com |
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