List town planners

The following list presents the famous town planners chronologically classified according to the date of their work more known, or the time to which they became famous. Here, town planner is heard under his broadest definition, i.e. the characters having acted on the city, in a theoretical or concrete way.

The town planners experts

List of town planners having applied their concepts or those of other people

-408 : Hippodamos of Millet - Pirée, Thurrii, Rhodos
1666: Christopher Wren - London
1768 - 1794: Jean-Antoine Morand de Jouffrey, installation of left bank of Lyon (District of Brotteaux, also called “Morand district”).
1791 : Pierre Charles the Child, Benjamin Banneker, Andrew Ellicott - Washington, cd.
1852 - 1872: Enrico Alvino (1809 - 1872), architect and town planner Italy N, urban renewal of Naples.
1853 : Baron Haussmann - reorganization of Paris
1859: Ildefons Cerdà - town planner of the Eixample, extension of Barcelona
1898: Ebenezer Howard - Letchworth and theorist of the Garden city
1901: Charles Follen McKim - Washington, cd. revised plan
1909: Daniel Burnham - Chicago
1912: Walter Burley Griffin - Canberra
1924: Andrew R. Cobb and Thomas Adams - Corner Brook, Newfoundland
1924: Clarence Stein - Sunnyside Gardens with New York, Chatham Village with Pittsburgh, Baldwin Hills Village with Los Angeles
1928: Henry Wright - Radburn, New Jersey
towards 1930: Robert Moses - urban renewal of New York
1945 - 1954: Auguste Perret - Downtown area rebuilt of Le Havre
1950: Le Corbusier - Chandigarh - Firminy-Green
1957: Lucio Costa - Brasilia
1963: Dead Hoppenfeld, James Rouse - Columbia, Maryland
1970: Paolo Soleri - Arcosanti, Arizona
1973: Moshe Safdie - Coldspring New Town, Baltimore
1984: Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk - Seaside, Florida
1985: Paul Chemetov, Markets of Paris (2nd part and installation of the gardens)
1990: Peter Calthorpe - Laguna West, California

Thinkers of town planning

List of town planners having formulated theories on the best manner of arranging the cities, without inevitably to have been able to put their concepts works of it:

1775 Claude-Nicolas Ledoux - project of ideal city tested in the Royal saltworks of Arc-and-Senans (unfinished)
1889 Camillo Sitte - Der Städtebau (translated in 1902: art to build the cities). The city under the angle of art; it inspires the creators of the garden cities and reintroduced the interest for the curve in the city.
Tony Garnier - Quoted industrial (1901 - 1917)
Jane Jacobs - Decline and survival of the American big cities (1961)
Le Corbusier - Towards an architecture (1923), Town planning (1925), the Charter of Athens (1942)
Marcel Lods, formed part, with Le Corbusier of Association for an Architectural Restoration
1935 Frank Lloyd Wright - Broadacre City (concept)
1961 - 1974 Archigram, re-examined conceptual of six architect British proposing in particular in 1968 a flying metropolis .
1978 Rem Koolhaas Delirious New York
1946 Leon Krier Architecture Choice gold Fate (1998)
1960 Kevin Lynch - The image off the city ( the image of the city ), on the mental image of the city
1964 Francoise Choay - Town planning, Utopias and reality , on the large thinkers of town planning (with extracts of their texts)
Marcel Roncayolo, the city and its territories
Henri Lefebvre
François Ascher, Métapolis

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