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Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA (January 22, 1940 – February 9, 2015) was an American architect based in Venice, Los Angeles, California, founder and chairman of The Jerde Partnership, a design architecture and urban planning firm specializing in the design of shopping malls that has created a number of commercial developments around the globe.
Patsaouras announced on October 27, 2008, that he would be a candidate to succeed Laura Chick as City Controller of the City of Los Angeles in the 2009 municipal election. He lost to Wendy Greuel, a former member of the Los Angeles City Council [6] Patsaouras was a candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1993.
Doug Suisman (born 14 March 1955) is an American urban designer and architect. [1] Suisman founded the Los Angeles-based firm, Suisman Urban Design, in 1990 [2] and has since worked on projects in a variety of cities including Los Angeles, Ramallah, and Vancouver, among others.
In 1981, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a journalist. He subsequently earned a master's degree in urban planning at University of California, Los Angeles. [7]Fulton is best known as a commentator and expert on urban planning in California, [8] writing hundreds of articles on the topic, including more than 40 Sunday Opinion pieces in the Los Angeles Times between 1982 and 2009.
Leonie Sandercock (born 1949) is an urban planner and academic focusing on community planning and multiculturalism.Her work spans the interdisciplinary fields of urban studies, urban policy and planning and elucidates issues of difference, social justice and possibility. [1]
NBBJ provides services in architecture, interiors, planning and urban design, experience design, healthcare and workplace consulting, landscape design, and lighting design. The firm is involved in multiple markets and building types including: cultural and civic, corporate, commercial, healthcare, education, science, sports, and urban environments.
c. 1930 Robert Moses – responsible for the urban renewal of New York City; 1930 Ernst May – Magnitogorsk and some 20 other urban projects in the Soviet Union; 1932 Hermann Jansen – Ankara, Türkiye; 1935 Frank Lloyd Wright – Broadacre City (concept) 1935–1981 Eldridge Lovelace – many US cities; 1938 Susan Fainstein
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 ...