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 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 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 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 Modern Housing Come to America Bauer’s Impact A revisionist view of Catherine Bauer

Patrick Geddes, Regional Planning and Design with Nature 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