FAMOUS PLANNERS

FAMOUS PLANNERS

Abercrombie, Sir Leslie Patrick (1874- 1957)

- In 1913 he won a competition for the re-planning
of Dublin
- In 1944 he published his Greater London Plan and
founder of the Town Planning Review
Bacon, Edmund Norwood (1910-)
- Bacon’s Design of Cities (1967)
- Architect designer in Shanghai

Garnier, Tony (1869-1948)

- Cité Industrielle, designed between 1898 and 1904
- Distinct functional zoning throughout
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Geddes, Sir Patrick (1854-1932)
- in planning circles, his indelible mark is made by
his extensive contribution to fresh thought on
the shape and location of contemporary human
communities
- the author of Cities in Evolution (1915)
Gropius, Walter (1883-1969)
- Gropius owes his place in any account of the
history of planning to his invention of the
residential layout in which slab blocks of flats
are placed laterally or obliquely to a street rather
than parallel with it
Gruen, Victor (1903-)
- planner and author who has pioneered the
development in America of both regional and
city centre pedestrian shopping areas
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Jacobs, Jane (1916-)
- American author and former associate editor of
Architectural Forum whose book the Death and
Life of Great American Cities was published in 1962.

Kahn, Louis (1901)

- American architect noted for his imaginative
sequence of plans for the redevelopment of
Philadelphia, designed intermittently between
1952 and 1961.
Mayer, Albert
- Believed that housing developments should blend
in with the neighboring city to produce a change
of character, but not a shock
- Thus proposed the planning concept of
“differentiation without division”
- Conceptualized the original plan for Chandigarh
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Mumford, Lewis (1895-)
- An influential American writer on planning and
sociology.
- His first book on planning, The Story of Utopias,
was published in 1922.
Nash, John
- Believed in curving forms, rather than formal
grid patterns
- Designer of London’s Park Crescent and Regent’s Park

Osborn, Sir Frederic James (1885-)

- Author, planner and propagandist, Sir Frederic
Osborn has acquired an international reputation
for his sustained and tireless espousal of the
principles behind Howard’s Garden Cities
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Silkin. Lewis
- Earned his place in the history of planning by the
legislation which he introduced into Parliament
while minister of Town and Country Planning
from 1945 to 1950
- New Towns Act of 1946 and the Town and Country
Planning Act of 1947

Sitte, Camillo (1843-1903)

-Austrian art historian and writer of the book Der
Städtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen
(City Planning According to Artistic Principles)

Tange, Kenzo
- Architect and planner who analyzed major cities
of the world’s industrialized countries, finding
that characteristically they comprise only about
15% of a country’s population
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Vitruvius (1st Century B.C.)
- the 4th to 7th chapters of his first book are
concerned generally with town planning and
embody fundamental principles for the layout
and form of whole towns
Wood, John
- An early advocate of formalism in town planning
highlighted by simple curved buildings
- Designer of the Royal Circus and the Royal
Crescent in Bath, England

Wren, Christopher
- Credited for rebuilding London after the fire of 1966
- The stock exchange building was the symbolic
focal point of his plan, instead of the traditional
palace or cathedral