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Early Urban Planning: 1870 - 1940 Richard LeGates Urban Studies Program, SFSU

Early Urban Planning: 1870 - 1940 Richard LeGates Urban Studies Program, SFSU Books in the Series Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of Tomorrow Charles Mulford Robinson, Modern Civic Art Patrick Geddes, Cities in Evolution Nelson P. Lewis, Planning the Modern City

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Early Urban Planning: 1870 - 1940 Richard LeGates Urban Studies Program, SFSU

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  1. Early Urban Planning: 1870 - 1940Richard LeGatesUrban Studies Program, SFSU

  2. Books in the Series • Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of Tomorrow • Charles Mulford Robinson, Modern Civic Art • Patrick Geddes, Cities in Evolution • Nelson P. Lewis, Planning the Modern City • John Nolen, New Towns for Old • Clarence Perry, The Neighborhood Unit • Patrick Abercrombie, Town and Country Planning • Thomas Addams Outline of Town and City Planning

  3. Other Selections • Frederick Law Olmsted, Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns • Alberto Soria y Mata, The Linear City • A.D. Sanderson Furniss & Marion Phillips, The Working Woman’s House • Catherine Bauer, Modern Housing • Rexford Tugwell, The Fourth Power • ……And 10 other selections

  4. Major Themes in Early Planning Thought • The Municipal Health Movement • The Parks Movement • The Linear City • The City Beautiful Movement • The Garden City Movement • Early Regional Planning • Women and Housing Policy • Depression and Wartime National Planning

  5. The Municipal Health Movement • Sanitary Conditions of mid-19th Century Cities • Air and Water Pollution • Cemetaries • Tenement Living • Richardson’s Hygeia • M.D. as City Planner • End of tenements and cellars • Control of smoke • Water quality

  6. Benjamin Clark Marsh and the Split between Planning, Housing, and Social Services • Benjamin Clark Marsh • The “Congestion Movement” • The 1st National Conference on Planning & Congestion (1909) • The Split between planners, housers, and settlement house workers

  7. Frederic Law Olmsted And The Parks Movement • Frederick Law Olmsted • Olmsted’s Vision • Mixed use • Dampening class conflict • Family & religious values • Central Park (New York) • Olmsted’s impact

  8. The Linear City Movement

  9. Fundamental Features of the “Ciudad Lineal” • The Impact of Technology on Urban Form • Soria y Mata’s Vision • Actual Linear Cities

  10. Daniel Burnham and The City Beautiful Movement • Daniel Burnham • The 1893 Chicago Exposition • The S.F. Plan (1905) • The Chicago Plan (1909) • Burnham the Propogandist

  11. Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Movement

  12. The Garden Cities Movement • Ebenezer Howard • The Three Magnets • The Garden Cities Vision • Regionalism • Physical Form • Economics • The Garden Cities Vision: Economics • Letchworth

  13. The Garden City Physical Form

  14. Garden Cities in Europe & America • Raymond Unwin: Implementer & Corruptor of The Garden City Movement • Radburn, New Jersey • The U.S. Greenbelt Cities Program • The Garden City Movement Worldwide

  15. Women and Housing In Europe • The Impact of WW I on British Housing & Housing Policy • A.D. Sanderson Furniss and Marion Phillips Housing Program for Working Women • “Modern Housing” in Europe • Catherine Bauer visits Europe...

  16. Catherine Bauer and the Origins of American Housing Policy • Catherine Bauer • Modern Housing Come to America • Bauer’s Impact • A revisionist view of Catherine Bauer

  17. Patrick Geddes, Regional Planning and Design with Nature • Patrick Geddes • Geddes ideas on Regional Planning • The Origins of Sustainable Urban Development • Louis Mumford and Geddes

  18. Rexford Tugwell and “The Fourth Power” In National Planning • “Red Rex” Tugwell and the New Deal • The “Fourth Power” debate • The failure of National Planning in America

  19. Wartime and Post-War British Planning: Abercrombie • Patrick Abercrombie • The Barlow Commission and WW II • The Plan for Greater London and Britain’s New Towns Program

  20. Old Wine in New Bottles? • From Municipal Health to Environmental Justice • From the Linear City Transit Oriented Development • The Enduring City Beautiful • Garden Cities for Today • Geddes & Mumford: Design with Nature and the New Regionalism • Post-Modern Housing and the New Urbanism • Devolution and The Non-existent Fourth Power

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