4. Early Urban Planning: 1870 - 1940 Richard LeGates Urban Studies Program, SFSU

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

12. The Linear City Movement

13. Fundamental Features of the “Ciudad Lineal”
The Impact of Technology on Urban Form
Soria y Mata’s Vision
Actual Linear Cities

16. Daniel Burnham and The City Beautiful Movement
The 1893 Chicago Exposition
The S.F. Plan (1905)
The Chicago Plan (1909)
Burnham the Propogandist

19. Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Movement

20. The Garden Cities Movement
Ebenezer Howard
The Three Magnets
The Garden Cities Vision
Regionalism
Physical Form
Economics
The Garden Cities Vision: Economics
Letchworth

22. The Garden City Physical Form

23. 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

24. 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...

25. Catherine Bauer and the Origins of American Housing Policy
Modern Housing Come to America
Bauer’s Impact
A revisionist view of Catherine Bauer

26. Patrick Geddes, Regional Planning and Design with Nature
Geddes ideas on Regional Planning
The Origins of Sustainable Urban Development
Louis Mumford and Geddes

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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