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Urban planner

Urban planners in Australia typically graduate from a Planning Institute Australia (PIA) certified course provided by universities across all states and territories.


Michael P. Kelly

Michael P. Kelly (born January 31, 1954) is an architect and urban planner who has led the public housing authorities of several large U.S. cities, and is a leading advocate for public policy that promotes affordable housing in the country.

Victoria Square, Christchurch

A town planner, professor Gordon Stephenson, proposed to close Victoria Street through the square.


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1523 in poetry

Girolamo Maggi (died 1572), Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist

1572 in poetry

March 27 – Girolamo Maggi (born 1523), Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist

Escola Nacional de Belas Artes

Lúcio Costa, (1902-1998) Brazilian architect and urban planner

Felsko

Johann Felsko, (1813—1902), an architect, urban planner and the chief architect of Riga for 35 years

François de Pierrefeu

François de Pierrefeu (3 March 1891 - 1959) was a French engineer and urban planner who was one of the founders of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM).

Heinrich Tessenow

This particular strain of humane, functionalist urban planning would eventually lead to the extensive German housing projects of Ernst May and Bruno Taut in the 1920s, May's plans for Magnitogorsk and other Russian cities, and then widespread influence through Tessenow's student Otto Koeningsberger, an urban planner who worked in Asia, Latin America, Africa and particularly India, for instance the 1948 plan for the Indian city of Bhubaneswar.

Igor de Vetyemy

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in February 28, 1981, Igor de Vetyemy graduated as an architect and Urban planner with distinction at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2005.

John F. Collins

Collins' administration focused on downtown redevelopment: Collins brought the urban planner Edward J. Logue to Boston to lead the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Collins' administration supervised the construction of the Prudential Center complex and of Government Center.

Laves

Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves (December 15, 1788 – April 30, 1864) a leading neoclassical style German architect, civil engineer and urban planner of the Kingdom of Hanover.

Leonidov

Ivan Leonidov (1902–1959), a Russian constructivist architect, urban planner, painter and teacher

Ohio Penitentiary

The Burnham Square Condominiums, named after urban planner and architect Daniel Burnham, who designed Columbus's Union Station, and the Nationwide Arena now stand on the site of the former penitentiary.

Rohini Salian

Salian, who is also an accomplished painter, was initially an urban planner with the then Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, and joined the legal profession in 1982.

Valsson

Trausti Valsson (born 1946), Icelandic architect and urban planner