The American planner : biographies and recollections / edited by Donald A. Krueckeberg.

Title & Author:

The American planner : biographies and recollections / edited by Donald A. Krueckeberg.

Publication:

New York : Methuen, 1983.

Description:

xiii, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to the American planner / Donald A. Krueckeberg -- John Nolen: the background of a pioneer planner / John Hancock -- Benjamin C. Marsh and the fight over population congestion / Harvey A. Kantor -- Burnham's Plan and Moody's Manual: city planning as progressive reform / Thomas J. Schlereth -- From the autobiography of Edward M. Bassett / Donald A. Krueckeberg -- Bettman of Cincinnati / Laurence C. Gerckens -- Woman-made America: the case of early public housing policy / Eugenie Ladner Birch -- Charles Dyer Norton and the origins of the Regional plan of New York / Harvey A. Kantor -- Benton MacKaye: the Appalachian Trail / John R. Ross -- Henry Wright: 1878-1936 / Henry Churchill -- Rexford Guy Tugwell: initiator of America's Greenbelt new towns, 1935-6 / David Myhra -- Seeing things whole: a consideration of Lewis Mumford / Park Dixon Goist -- Harland Bartholomew: precedent for the profession / Norman J. Johnston -- The recollections of Ladislas Segoe / Donald A. Krueckeberg and Sydney H. Williams -- Between the housers and the planners: the recollections of Coleman Woodbury / Donald A. Krueckeberg -- From the backyard garden to the whole USA: a conversation with Charles W. Eliot, 2nd / Donald A. Krueckeberg -- Charles Abrams: a lover of cities / Bernard Taper -- From civic worker to city planner: women and planning, 1890-1980 / Eugenie Ladner Birch.

ISBN:

0416333605
9780416333602

Subject:

City planners United States.
City planners United States Biography.
Regional planning United States.
Regional planners United States Biography.
Urbanistes États-Unis.
Urbanistes États-Unis Biographies.
Aménagement du territoire États-Unis.
Aménageurs États-Unis Biographies.
Regional planners
City planners
Regional planning
Stadsplanning.
Regionale planning.
United States

Form/genre:

Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies

Added entries:

Krueckeberg, Donald A., editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 79501
Call No.: ID:85-B10102
Status: Available

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