Brief History of Urban and Regional Planning

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Brief History of Urban and Regional Planning
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My Brief Biography

• Born in Birmingham, Alabama
• Most of life spent in Asheboro, N.C. a small
  city near Greensboro, N.C. (part of the Piedmont
  area where Chapin did many of his studies)
• Travelled extensively in Europe, Russia and
  Israel after completing college with political
  science degree
• Spent two years in School of Urban Planning at
  University of Tennessee, studeied under Fredrick
  Wegmann
• Worked for approximately ten years as urban
  transportation planner, public transportation
  manager and county planner in Illinois,
  Wisconsin, South Carolina, North Carolina
• Completed Masters in Geography (UNC-Charlotte)
  with emphasis in urban transportation planning
  (did various studies related to different aspects
  of urban transportaiton)
• Completed Ph.D. in Geography (UW-Milwaukee) with
  emphasis in GIS, urban development and urban
  transportation (major professors-Harold Mayer,
  Harold Rose, William Huxhold, Edward Beimborn and
  Alan Horowitz). Dissertation-Land Use Impact of
  Airports major participation in project of
  freight modelling
• Assistant Professor-Texas AM-Kingsville-emphasis
  in GIS, Urban Geography with specialization in
  urbanizaiton in Mexicotravelled extensively in
  Mexico and lived in Monterrey during the summer,
  co-editor of Urbana (http//www.tamuk.edu/geo/Urb
  ana/), worked on project related to GIS and
  ground water modeling, taught courses in GIS,
  Remote Sensing, urban planning, started urban
  studies program
• Assistant Professor-Fatih University-resaerch has
  been in urban environment (

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Major Themes in Modern Planning

• Housing (lack of decent housing for the poor)
• Congestion and transportation
• Urban design or (lack of)
• Suburbanization
• Regional planning
• Energy
• Environment
• Sustaianability
• Citizen Participation/Empowerment
• New Urbanism
• Enterprise Zones

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Key Figures in Planning History

• Ebenezer Howard
• Patrick Geddes
• Clarence Stein
• Le Corbusier
• Lewis Mumford
• Rexford Tugwell
• Jean Gottmann
• Daniel Burnham
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• T.J. Kent
• Melvin Webber
• David Harvey
• Fredrick Olmstead
• Kevin Lynch
• Ian McHarg
• Peter Hall
• Michael Batty

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Survey of Movements

• 1880s-U.K. and U.S. Public made aware of the
  plight of the urban poor and development of
  commissions to develop legislation
• 1890-1950s-Gardern City Movement (still reaction
  to the unlivability of the central city
• 1890s-Start of the City Beautiful
  Movement(actually its roots probably date to the
  Haussmanization of Paris)
• 1930s- Bauhaus School (Le Corbusier was briefly
  associated with this school)
• Regional Planning
• Rational Planning
• Urban Renewal/Revitalization
• Public Participation
• Energy
• Environment
• Sustainabilty
• Balanced transportation

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