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4 unusual facts about urban planning


John Widgery, Baron Widgery

He gathered a reputation for being a fast talker, and eventually came to specialise in disputes over rating and town planning, where his methodical approach and self-control were useful attributes.

Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin

He chaired the LCC Town Planning and the Housing and Public Health Committees and was a member of the Central Housing Advisory Committee.

Louisburgh, County Mayo

Originally a planned town, it retains many of the eighteenth century features in style and scale.

Russell Kerr

He became a director of the Town and Country Planning Association and an air charter executive.


A.Alliance Design International

A.Alliance Design International is a multi-disciplinary architecture, urban planning, interior design and project management firm founded by William Lau Hui Lay in 1998, with senior management team which includes Midori JU Aw and Alicia LH Lee.

Alexander von Hoffman

He came to the Center in 1997; he was previously associate professor of urban planning and design at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and a Fellow at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Alicia Mastandrea

She became director of planning for the municipality of Resistencia, Chaco in 1980 and also began to teach in her field at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste in Resistencia.

Andrés Casillas de Alba

From 1957 to 1961 he attended the Ulm School of Design, Germany, and participated meanwhile in urban planning projects for Isfahan in 1958, as well as he practiced in the architecture bureau Mangiarotti e Morassutti, Milan, in 1959.

Dave Dederer

Prior to The Presidents' success, Dederer taught high school English at Kent Denver School and The Bush School, did public relations work on environmental issues, and attended graduate school in urban planning at the University of Washington.

Die Stadtkrone

Die Stadtkrone or City Crown is a concept of Urban planning put forward by German expressionist architects, and particularly championed by Bruno Taut in the early part of the 20th century.

Longwood Gardens

The gardens attracted nearly 900,000 visitors during 2009 and plans for the growth and expansion of Longwood Gardens for the next four decades began in 2010 with the hiring of West 8, a Dutch landscape architecture and urban planning firm with headquarters in Rotterdam and an office in New York City.

Marshall Purnell

After attending Ottawa Hills High School and playing on its state high school championship winning basketball team, he went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Architecture & Urban Planning and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Roberta Lima

Roberta Lima studied Architecture and Urban Planning at Unisinos in southern Brazil and then went on to complete her graduate studies in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

The Power Broker

In 1966, his wife Ina changed the topic of her graduate thesis to write about the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, while Caro was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University taking courses in urban planning and land use.

Torill Kove

She moved to Montreal to continue academic studies in urban planning at Concordia University and she got a master degree(MUP 89') in McGill University and later changed her major to animation.


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Amath Dansokho

Dansokho was accused of selling lands around the international airport while he was Minister of Urban Planning and of embezzling 17 million CFA francs as mayor of Kédougou.

Barbara Lukermann

She also served as part of a federal advisory group that helped the Navajo Nation with urban planning.

Centre of Mathematics and Design

Centre of Mathematics & Design (MAyDI), the research Centre of Mathematics & Design MAyDI was created at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1995, under the direction of Dr. Vera W. de Spinadel.

Chen Wei-zen

Chen did his bachelor degree in urban planning from the National Cheng Kung University.

Christopher Tunnard

He taught at Yale University for city planning, became more focused on preserving historic buildings, and wrote many books on urban planning.

Commonwealth Association of Planners

CAP was led by Heriot-Watt professor Cliff Hague from 2000–2006, under whom the association played a significant role in developing "new urban planning" in response to the rapid urbanisation and increased slum settlements in cities across the globe.

Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

The Master of Regional Planning (M.R.P.) professional program was ranked #2 in the nation according to Planetizen's 2012 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs, ranking just below MIT and ahead of Rutgers and UC Berkeley.

Crime prevention through environmental design

An editor for Architectural Forum magazine (1952–1964), she had no formal training in urban planning, but her work emerged as a founding text for a new way of seeing cities.

David Williamson Shaffer

Epistemic games are computer games in which players engage in simulations of training in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) professions such as engineering and urban planning to develop epistemic frames of STEM thinking.

Dea Ecker

Ecker earned a Master of Architecture and Urban Planning from the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1996, and the degree of Diplom-Ingenieur from the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in 1991.

Dolores Hayden

Paul Davidoff Award for an outstanding book in Urban Planning from the ACSP

Geomorphometry

With the rapid increase of sources of DEMs today (and especially due to the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission and LIDAR-based projects), extraction of land surface parameters is becoming more and more attractive to numerous fields ranging from precision agriculture, soil-landscape modelling, climatic and hydrological applications to urban planning, education and space research.

Grand Paris

Politically, the President of the Île-de-France region, Jean-Paul Huchon and the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, both members of the French Socialist Party have been opposed to the initiatives taken by the national government, which are in contradiction with the recent devolution of urban planning matters to local governments.

H. Allen Brooks

His LeCorbusier's Formative Years: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux-de-Fonds, published in 1997, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in biography and won a first prize from the Association of American Publishers for books in architecture and urban planning.

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.

Huda

Hyderabad Urban Development Authority, the urban planning agency of the city of Hyderabad India that was expanded and renamed Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority

Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), the urban planning agency of the Haryana state, India

Jacques Debat-Ponsan

urban planning and reconstruction of Cambrai, with fellow architects Pierre Leprince-Ringuet and Marc Germain Debré (beginning 1919)

John A. Degnan

Upon taking office, Degnan helped lead Team Brewster which while Degnan was still a village trustee, had commissioned his sister, a member of the Urban Planning Department of Columbia University's School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation to develop a master plan for the Brewster's revitalization.

John G. Shedd

One of the Commercial Club's most notable undertakings was the sponsorship of Edward Bennett and Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago, which was released in 1909 and which to this day is considered to be one of the most important urban planning documents ever created.

Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta

The urban planning was laid in a concept of the Garden city movement, consisting of a well-planned residential area, a shopping center, and a business district, supported with civic facilities e.g. schools, places of worship, hospitals, and parks.

Michael Sorkin

He is also Chair of the Institute for Urban Design, a non-profit organization that provides a forum for debate over critical issues in contemporary urban planning, development, and design.

Oren Yiftachel

He has subsequently taught in urban planning, geography, political science and Middle East departments, at various institutions, including: Curtin University, Australia; the Technion, Israel; the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and UC Berkeley, in the United States; the University of Cape Town, South Africa and the University of Venice, Italy.

Paul Davidoff

Of those awardees is Dolores Hayden for outstanding book in Urban Planning from the ACSP.

Pekka Salminen

He is also the founder of Unije Workshop International UWI, and the Centre for Architecture and Urban Planning, formed in Unije, Croatia, in 1987.

Peter Gloystein

Peter Gloystein is also active in various cultural institutions: Chairman of the Board of the Association supporting the Cultural Project Hombroich, Neuss; General Manager of the Urban Planning Corporation Raumortlabor Hombroich gemeinnützige Stiftungs GmbH, Neuss; Chairman of the Friends Association of the Teatro La Fenice, Berlin and Member of the Board of the Friends Association of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf/Duisburg.

Postconstructivism

In 1927-1929, former theorists Nikolai Ladovsky, Moisei Ginzburg, Ilya Golosov stepped aside from public discussions and switched to practical building and urban planning.

Robert Ivy

He currently serves on the advisory board of four architecture schools—Tulane University, Mississippi State University, Auburn University’s Rural Studio and Tongji University School of Architecture and Urban Planning in Shanghai, China.

Robert Redfield

Redfield and his wife Margaret are the parents of Lisa Redfield Peattie, Professor Emerita, Department of Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, James M. Redfield, a professor of classics at the University of Chicago and Joanna Redfield Gutmann (1930–2009).

Sasanian art

Firuzabad is a settlement built under Adaschir I and a well-documented example of Sasanian urban planning.

Sean Dewart

Later, he juniored for partner Tim Gleason in a number of cases, including General Motors of Canada v CAW et al. and Evans v. Toronto, in which the City was found partially liable for injuries to a cyclist resulting from poor urban planning.

Shoup

Donald Shoup - Economist and Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles

Stefano Cagol

In 2010 he exhibited at the Paul Robeson Gallery of Rutgers University in Newark in “Bittersweet”, at the Other Gallery in Shanghai in “Suspension of Disbilief”, at Palazzo della Triennale in Milan, at SUPEC – Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center.

Susannah Hagan

She has lectured internationally, including the Union of Baltic Cities Commission on Urban Planning, the annual NUTAU conference, São Paulo, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Sven Markelius

Markelius played an important role in the post-war urban planning of Stockholm, for example in the creation of the model suburb of Vällingby (1950s).

Topolobampo

Topolobampo was the site of a Radical "utopian" colony from roughly 1884 to 1894, that had an influence on the urban planning ideas of Ebenezer Howard.

Urban shrinkage

Planned shrinkage, an urban planning philosophy to deliberately reduce city services to encourage reduced population

Shrink to survive, an urban planning response to a shrink city that converts abandoned neighborhoods into rural land

William J. Mitchell

Mitchell headed the architecture and urban design program at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles starting in 1970.

Young Foundation

Together with collaborators including Peter Willmott, Peter Townsend and many others, he wrote a series of bestsellers which changed attitudes to a host of social issues, including urban planning (leading the movement away from tower blocks), education (leading thinking about how to radically widen access) and poverty.