List of urban planners
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List of urban planners chronological by initial year of plan.
- c. 332 BC Dinocrates - Alexandria, Egypt
- c. 408 BC Hippodamus - Peiraeus, Thurii, Rhodes
- c. 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Hidetada, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Takatora Todo- Edo, later Tokyo, Japan [1]
- 1666 Christopher Wren - London
- 1682 William Penn and Thomas Holme - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1727 Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, Astronomer, City Planner, King of Amber, War Minister of Emperor,India - Jaipur - Pink City - Capital of State - Rajasthan, India
- 1791 Peter Charles L'Enfant, Benjamin Banneker, Andrew Ellicott - Washington, DC
- 1805 Augustus B. Woodward - Detroit, Michigan
- 1811 Gouverneur Morris, John Rutherfurd, and Simeon De Witt - Commissioners' Plan of New York City, New York
- c. 1838 Joseph Smith, Jr. and later Brigham Young - several Mormon settlements including Nauvoo, Illinois and Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 1853 Baron Haussmann - responsible for the broad avenues of Paris
- 1859 Ildefons Cerdà - planner of the Eixample district of Barcelona
- c. 1880 Solon Beman and George Pullman - Pullman, Chicago, Illinois
- 1880 Pedro Benoit - La Plata, Argentina
- 1882 Arturo Soria y Mata - the Ciudad Lineal, Madrid
- 1898 Ebenezer Howard - Garden City
- 1901 Charles Follen McKim - Washington, DC revised plan
- 1909 Daniel Burnham - Chicago, Illinois
- 1912 Walter Burley Griffin - Canberra
- 1915 Alfred Bettman
- 1924 Andrew R. Cobb and Thomas Adams - Corner Brook, Newfoundland
- 1924 Clarence Stein - Sunnyside Gardens, New York, Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, Baldwin Hills Village, Los Angeles
- 1925 Ernst May - city plan and housing units in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, including Römerstadt
- 1927 Bruno Taut - Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe Projects), Berlin
- 1928 Henry Wright - Radburn, New Jersey
- c. 1930 Robert Moses, responsible for the urban renewal of New York City
- 1930 Ernst May - Magnitogorsk and some 20 other urban projects in the Soviet Union
- 1935 Frank Lloyd Wright - Broadacre City (concept)
- 1938 Donald Gibson - Coventry, England
- 1950 Le Corbusier - Chandigarh, India
- 1952 Macklin Hancock - Don Mills, Ontario
- 1955 Stanley Wardley - Bradford, Yorkshire, England
- 1957 Lucio Costa - Brasília, Brazil
- 1960 Edmund Bacon - engaged in the redevelopment of parts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1960 William Pereira - Irvine, California
- 1960 Konstantinos Doxiadis - Islamabad, Pakistan
- 1963 Mort Hoppenfeld, James Rouse - Columbia, Maryland
- 1964 Jaime Lerner - Curitiba, Brazil (transportation and land use combination)
- 1964 Robert E. Simon - Reston, Virginia
- 1966 Walt Disney - Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (concept) (Note: While never built in the form Disney intended, Walt Disney World, where EPCOT was planned, houses an amusement park by the same name and is also near the Disney Company-founded town of Celebration, Florida.)
- 1970 Paolo Soleri - Arcosanti, Arizona, as well as his concept of arcologies
- 1970 William Pereira, Ian McHarg - The Woodlands, Texas
- 1971 H.K.Mewada, Prakash M.Apte - Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
- 1973 Moshe Safdie - Coldspring New Town, Baltimore, Maryland
- 1984 Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk - Seaside, Florida
- 1990 Peter Calthorpe - Laguna West, California
- 1992 Vladimir Arana - Chorrillos, Lima, Peru
- 2003 Christopher Charles Benninger, Thimphu, Bhutan
- 2006 Steven Bingler - New Orleans, Louisiana (Unified New Orleans Plan) [2]
[edit] See also
- Garden city movement
- List of urban theorists
- List of planned communities
- New town
- Urban economics
- Urban planner
- Urban planning
- Principles of Intelligent Urbanism
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