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
Correct spelling is Ebenezer
Frederick Law Olmsted and Jr.
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
William H Whyte
Jacob Riis
Herbert Gans
Roberta Gratz
Ian McHarg
was Bacon an architect?
We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes - Fr Gabriel Richard 1805
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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