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Downs, Anthony
Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He was for 18 years a member and then Chairman of Real Estate Research Corporation, a nationwide consulting firm advising private and public decision-makers on real estate investment, housing policies, and urban affairs.
http://www.anthonydowns.com/ |
Doxiadis, Constantinos (1913-1975)
Author and founder of Doxiadis Associates, a private firm of consulting engineers, with a small group of architects and planners. (Books: Ekistics - An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements).
http://www.doxiadis.org/ |
Jane Holtz Kay
Architecture and planning critic for The Nation and author. She has written for Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Preservation and Sierra. (Books: Asphalt Nation, Preserving New England and Lost Boston).
http://www.janeholtzkay.com/ |
Kent, Fred
Founder and president of the Project for Public Spaces. Biography, publications, and interviews.
http://www.pps.org/info/aboutpps/staff/fkent |
Kotkin, Joel
The author of 'The New Geography' offers commentary, articles, consulting, his schedule, and a biography.
http://www.joelkotkin.com/ |
Kunstler, James Howard
Kunstler believes a lot of people share his feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. (Books: The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere).
http://www.kunstler.com/ |
Moses, Robert (1888-1981)
New York state and municipal official whose ambitious public works projects of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s transformed the urban landscape of New York City.
http://www.noguchi.org/moses.html |
Newman, Oscar
Influential author proposes using the physical restructuring of housing projects and residential communities to reduce crime and improve stability. (Books: Defensible Space)
http://www.defensiblespace.com/ |
O'Toole, Randal
Economist and director of the Oregon-based Thoreau Institute since 1975. He has also been an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute since 1995. (Books: The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths).
http://www.urbanfutures.org/otoole.html |
Peirce, Neal
Writes on metropolitan regions and their political and economic dynamics, their emerging national and global roles. (Books: The Book of America: Inside 50 States Today; Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World; Breakthroughs: Recreating The American City). ).
http://www.citistates.com/assocspeakers/n_peirce.html |
Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth
Architect and town planner who cofounded Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company in 1980. (Books: Suburban Nation).
http://www.cnu.org/aboutcnu/board_member_ezyberk.cfm |
Rusk, David
Author, consultant, and leading American regionalist who combines scholarship with practical political experience. Former state legislator in New Mexico and mayor of Albuquerque, the nation's 36th largest city. (Books: Cities without Suburbs).
http://www.citistates.com/assocspeakers/d_rusk.html |
Salingaros, Nikos A.
Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, advocates using scientific understanding to generate 'life' in built structures. (Books: Principles of Urban Structure, A Theory of Architecture).
http://www.math.utsa.edu/sphere/salingar/ |
Soleri, Paolo
Author, visionary, architect, and pioneer of new human spaces. (Books: Arcosanti - An Urban Laboratory; Technology and Cosmogenesis; The Omega Seed; The Bridge Between Matter and Spirit is Matter Becoming Spirit; The City in the Image of Man).
http://www.arcosanti.org/project/background/soleri/main.html |
Staley, Samuel
Director of the Urban Futures Program of the Reason Public Policy Institute. (Books: Smarter Growth: Market-based Land-use Planning for the 21st Century).
http://www.rppi.org/staley.html |
V?lez-Guerra, C. Andr?s
Urbanidad- Urbanity- Urbanit?: Research papers about urban planning in developing cities.
http://www.cohelet.org/ |
Valsson, Trausti
Icelandic professor presents his curriculum vitae and details about two books, 'Planning in Iceland' and 'City and Nature.'
http://hi.is/~tv/ |
Zukin, Sharon
Sociologist explores the inter-relations of economic, social, and political power that shape urban form. (Books: Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disneyworld, The Cultures of Cities)
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/soc/faculty/zukin.htm |
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