It seems like anyone and everyone who has written on urban planning has an architecture background. Are there any influential works written by people with just an urban planning background?
I am also curious about urban design.
It seems like anyone and everyone who has written on urban planning has an architecture background. Are there any influential works written by people with just an urban planning background?
I am also curious about urban design.
To name just a few who were not architects:
Jane Jacobs
Lewis Mumford
Eve ne'er Howard
Richard Florida
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Frederick Law Olmsted and Jr.
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William H Whyte
Jacob Riis
Herbert Gans
Roberta Gratz
Ian McHarg
was Bacon an architect?
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Any contemporary ones that graduated in urban planning?
Sorry, I had eye surgery and was typing on autopilot.Originally posted by JNA
Has Jane Jacobs really influenced planning? As I'm reading "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961) I find myself wondering if anything has changed in the 50 years since it was published or if we've been blindly plowing ahead. I wasn't around in 1961 but I have the feeling there's more blight in our cities now than there was then. So, was she actually influential?
Why, me, of course.
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"Urban Planning" is a very new academic discipline, I think only 1 or 2 universities even gave out MS's in Urban Planning in the States until the late 1940's, before then planning (at least the "official kind endorsed by governments) was kinda just the hobby of architects. IMHO we have just begun to see trained "Urban Planners" having a bigger influence on discipline and practice of planning. On that note:
Influential "planners" with urban planning degrees:
Kevin Lynch
Allan B. Jacobs
Donald Appleyard
Paul Davidoff
John Friedmann
Leonie Sandercock (her PhD is technically Urban Research, but her dissertation was on urban planning in Australia)
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Other non-architects who have influenced planning:
Georges-Eugène Haussmann (planner of Paris, controversial but undeniably influential)
Jurgen Habermas - communicative action theory
Henri Lefebvre - theory on the "production of space"
Richard Sennett
Saskia Sassen
Herbert Gans
David Harvey
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Ph.D in Transportation Engineering and Planning (I have heard the traffic in Tehran is terrible).
Most of the people on this thread are either architects, architectural critics, landscape architects, or engineers. Interesting.
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She was legend in Toronto and lead several lesser known battles north of the border, including successfully defeating a highway plan that would have leveled one of Toronto's most cherished neighborhoods.
She had no formal education in planning and is often the subject of controversy when debating the extent of her contribution to the profession. On a personal level, she helped influence my love of planning. Has Jane Jacobs really influenced planning? I guess it depends on who you ask.
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Can't forget Robert Moses. We learned a lot from how he did things.
- Don't give one person so much power
- NEPA
- He wore snazzy suits!
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James Howard Kunstler, if you consider him an urban planner.
Baron Haussmann was hugely influential on Paris, but I don't believe was ever a practicing architect.
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