Prominent Planners
This person was appalled at cities in the 19th century and felt that residents should live in high density towers and be able to walk to their employment centers.
Who is Le Corbusier?
This theory focuses on a few set of alternatives that are implementable.
What is incremental planning?
The 1937 Housing Act authorized clearing this type of neighborhood and led to the construction of 160,000 new units.
What are slums?
The field of urban planning was started because of housing issues and this public health issue.
The 1944 Serviceman's Readjustment Act contributed to what land use issue?
What is single use residential areas and sprawl?
This person was nicknamed the "Master Builder."
Who is Robert Moses?
This theory approaches planing using more technical methods and data to appear neutral.
What is rational planning?
The 1922 Standard State Enabling Act provided procedural guidance for what planning tool?
What is zoning?
This planning movement prioritized the sacredness of nature and having a set population size in walkable and radial layouts.
What is the Garden City Movement?
What is the public interest?
This person supported highly decentralized land use patterns to prioritize the automobile.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
This theory focuses on residents defining for themselves how they want to participate and challenges power dynamics in planning.
What is insurgent planning?
The National Housing Act of 1934 changed housing downpayments from 30% to 10% and focused on building housing for this population.
Who are veterans?
This movement focused on form over function using industrial materials and geometric shapes.
What is the Modernist movement?
Early cities formed to address population growth, specialization of labor, and this revolution.
What is the agricultural revolution?
In the U.S., the neighborhood unit concept is attributed to this person.
Who is Clarence Perry?
This theory asks planners to be the voice for those not heard in the planning process.
What is advocacy planning?
The first comprehensive plan was passed in this city in 1925.
What is Cincinnati?
This movement focused on razing blighted neighborhoods and generating the economic base of inner cities.
What is urban renewal?
This concept is defined as systematic discrimination through the denial of loans or insurance.
What is redlining?
This person focused on street-level activities in a city and defined safe areas as "eyes on the street."
Who is Jane Jacobs?
This theory argues that planning has been used to preserve and uphold white spaces.
What is racial planning?
The New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 required that housing include fire safeguards, indoor toilets, proper ventilation, and this outfacing component.
What are windows?
This movement focused on developing centers of intellectual life and large monuments.
What is the City Beautiful Movement?
This planning tool is used to separate land and regulate the use, height, and lot coverage.
What is zoning?