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List of urban planners chronological by initial year of plan. c. 332 BC Dinocrates – Alexandria, Egypt; c. 408 BC Hippodamus of Miletus – Piraeus (port of Athens), Thurii, Rhodes; 330-336 CE Constantine – Byzantium replanned and rebuilt as the city of Constantinople. c. 413 – Flavius Anthemius – Theodosian Walls
Kevin Andrew Lynch (January 7, 1918 – April 25, 1984) was an American urban planner and author. He is known for his work on the perceptual form of urban environments and was an early proponent of mental mapping.
An urban planner (also known as town planner) is a professional who practices in the field of town planning, urban planning or city planning.. An urban planner may focus on a specific area of practice and have a title such as city planner, town planner, regional planner, long-range planner, transportation planner, infrastructure planner, environmental planner, parks planner, physical planner ...
Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century. Moses is regarded as one of the most powerful and influential people in the history of New York City and New York state. The grand scale of his infrastructure ...
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Ian L. McHarg (20 November 1920 – 5 March 2001) was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. McHarg was one of the most influential persons in the environmental movement who brought environmental concerns into broad public awareness and ecological planning methods into the mainstream of landscape architecture, city planning and public policy. [1]
“This is no time for urban planning exercising. That’ll delay it by 15 years. We need people back in their houses,” Steve Soboroff, a businessman and former police commissioner tasked with ...
Urban planning and the term conurbation: Spouse: ... his most famous admirer was the American urban theorist Lewis Mumford who claimed that "Geddes was a global ...