Early Urban Planning: 1870 - 1940Richard 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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

The Linear City Movement

Fundamental Features of the “Ciudad Lineal”

• The Impact of Technology on Urban Form

• Soria y Mata’s Vision

• Actual Linear Cities

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

Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Movement

The Garden Cities Movement

• Ebenezer Howard

• The Three Magnets

• The Garden Cities Vision

– Regionalism

– Physical Form

– Economics

• The Garden Cities Vision: Economics

• Letchworth

The Garden City Physical Form

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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