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LIST OF URBAN PLANNERS

'List of urban planners' chronological by initial year of plan.

★ c. 332 BC Dinocrates - Alexandria, Egypt

★ c. 408 BC Hippodamus - Peiraeus, Thurii, Rhodes

★ c. 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Hidetada, Tokugawa Iemitsu - Edo, later Tokyo, Japan [1]

1666 Christopher Wren - London

1682 William Penn and Thomas Holme - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1727 Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, Astronomer, City Planner, King of Amber, War Minister of Emperor,India - Jaipur - Pink City - Capital of State - Rajasthan, India

1791 Peter Charles L'Enfant, Benjamin Banneker, Andrew Ellicott - Washington, DC

1805 Augustus B. Woodward - Detroit, Michigan

1811 Gouverneur Morris, John Rutherfurd, and Simeon De Witt - Commissioners' Plan of New York City, New York

★ c. 1838 Joseph Smith, Jr. and later Brigham Young - several Mormon settlements including Nauvoo, Illinois and Salt Lake City, Utah.

1853 Baron Haussmann - responsible for the broad avenues of Paris

1859 Ildefons Cerdà - planner of the ''Eixample'' district of Barcelona

★ c. 1880 Solon Beman and George Pullman - Pullman, Chicago, Illinois

1880 Pedro Benoit - La Plata, Argentina

1882 Arturo Soria y Mata - the Ciudad Lineal, Madrid

1898 Ebenezer Howard - Garden City

1901 Charles Follen McKim - Washington, DC revised plan

1909 Daniel Burnham - Chicago, Illinois

1912 Walter Burley Griffin - Canberra

1915 Alfred Bettman

1924 Andrew R. Cobb and Thomas Adams - Corner Brook, Newfoundland

1924 Clarence Stein - Sunnyside Gardens, New York, Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, Baldwin Hills Village, Los Angeles

1925 Ernst May - city plan and housing units in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, including Römerstadt

1927 Bruno Taut - Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe Projects), Berlin

1928 Henry Wright - Radburn, New Jersey

★ 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

1935 Frank Lloyd Wright - Broadacre City (concept)

1938 Donald Gibson - Coventry, England

1950 Le Corbusier - Chandigarh, India

1952 Macklin Hancock - Don Mills, Ontario

1955 Stanley Wardley - Bradford, Yorkshire, England

1957 Lucio Costa - Brasília, Brazil

1960 Edmund Bacon - engaged in the redevelopment of parts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1960 William Pereira - Irvine, California

1960 Konstantinos Doxiadis - Islamabad, Pakistan

1963 Mort Hoppenfeld, James Rouse - Columbia, Maryland

1964 Jaime Lerner - Curitiba, Brazil (transportation and land use combination)

1964 Robert E. Simon - Reston, Virginia

1966 Walt Disney - Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (concept) (Note: While never built in the form Disney intended, Walt Disney World, where EPCOT was planned, houses an amusement park by the same name and is also near the Disney Company-founded town of Celebration, Florida.)

1970 Paolo Soleri - Arcosanti, Arizona, as well as his concept of arcologies

1970 William Pereira, Ian McHarg - The Woodlands, Texas

1971 H.K.Mewada, Prakash M.Apte - Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

1973 Moshe Safdie - Coldspring New Town, Baltimore, Maryland

1984 Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk - Seaside, Florida

1990 Peter Calthorpe - Laguna West, California

1992 Vladimir Arana - Chorrillos, Lima, Peru

2003 Christopher Charles Benninger, Thimphu, Bhutan

2006 Steven Bingler - New Orleans, Louisiana (Unified New Orleans Plan) [2]

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See also



Garden city movement

List of urban theorists

List of planned communities

New town

Urban economics

Urban planner

Urban planning

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism

External links



Individuals Who Influenced Planning Before 1978, from the American Planning Association



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