Extra Credit
Maximum 10 points each (but could be less) [This assignment may be completed up to 3 times]
Choose a famous planner from the list below or another planner you are familiar with (if not on the list, please email for permission before using a planner NOT on the list) and write a brief biography of that planner. Each biography must include:
• Movement or type of planning the planner is associated with
• Key projects that the planner is associated with, if any
• Key contributions to planning, if any
• Why this planner is important
• What the planner contributed to planning
• Background to be a planner (education or experience)
Each essay must include:
• 750-1000 words
• Word Count included at the end
• Single or double-spaced
• Times New Roman or Calibri
• 12 point font
• Minimum of 2 appropriate sources (AKA no Wikipedia or similar)
o APA Citations
o Include in-text citations
o NOTE: If citations are missing, the assignment will receive a 0 and no re-write will be permitted
• Submitted via blackboard by 11:59PM EST on November 4, 2016
o Each essay must be submitted separately
o This is an extra credit assignment, there are NO extensions or late submittals
• File should be a submitted as a .pdf saved as student’s last name and then planner
o Example: Murray_Burnham
Famous Planners
David Harvey
Ebenezer Howard
Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr.
Jane Jacobs
Edwin Chadwick
John Snow
Mitchell Silver
Daniel Burnham
Robert Moses
Kevin Lynch
William Whyte
Enrique Penalosa
William Penn
Ian McHarg
Richard Florida
Jeff Speck
Andres Duany
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Peter Calthorpe
James Oglethorpe
Jaime Lerner
George-Eugene Haussmann
Peter Hall
Jan Gehl
Daphne Spain
Leonie Sandercock
Le Corbusier
Edward Soja
Edmund Bacon
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis
Patrick Abercrombie
Lucio Costa
Charles Abrams
Rachel Carson
Aldo Leopold