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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
Pages in category "American urban planners" The following 185 pages are in this category, out of 185 total. ... Charles Moore (city planner) N. Arthur C. Nelson ...
Public officials in many smaller American cities hired him to design freeway networks in the 1940s and early 1950s. For example, Portland, Oregon hired Moses in 1943; his plan included a loop around the city center, with spurs running through neighborhoods. Of this plan, only I-405, its links with I-5, and the Fremont Bridge were built. [40]
These Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) may exist as a separate, independent organization or they may be administered by a city, county, regional planning organization, highway commission or other government organization. [1] Each MPO has its own structure and governance. The following is a list of the current federally designated MPOs.
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 ...
Make No Little Plans - Daniel Burnham and the American City [66] is the first feature-length documentary film about noted architect and urban planner Daniel Hudson Burnham, produced by the Archimedia Workshop. National distribution in 2009 coincided with the centennial celebration of Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett's 1909 Plan of Chicago.
Many city nicknames roll off the tongue like it's second nature. New York City is, of course, "the Big Apple." Paris is the "City of Love." Los Angeles is the "City of Angels." They're a given at this
Lynch's most famous work, The Image of the City (1960), is the result of a five-year study on how observers take in information of the city. Using three American cities as examples (Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles), Lynch reported that users understood their surroundings in consistent and predictable ways, forming mental maps with five ...