Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs

female, deceased (2006)
Jewish person, immigrant to Canada, death by stroke, From toronto, tax resister, Officer of the Order of Canada…Urbantheorist, urban renewal
Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist. She is best known for "The De...
Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford

male, deceased (1990)
City University of New York, from New York City, historian, Science writer, American technology writer, Stuyvesant High School alumni…Urbantheorist
Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990) was an American historian of technology and science. Particularly noted for his study of cities...
James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler

male, 61 years old
The End of Suburbia, from New York City, The Geography of Nowhere, wikt Blogger, social critic, From Saratoga Springs…Urbantheorist
James Howard Kunstler (born 1948) is an American author, social critic, and blogger who is perhaps best known for his book "The Geography of...
Patrick Geddes

Patrick Geddes

male, deceased (1932)
Collège des Écossais, Montpellier, conurbation, Architectural history, architect, Scottish, Educationist…Urbantheorist, Urban Planning
Sir Patrick Geddes (1854 - 1932) was Scottish biologist and botanist, known also as an innovative thinker in the fields of urban planning and...
Ebenezer Howard

Ebenezer Howard

male, deceased (1928)
City founder, Urban planner, British urban planner, Urbantheorist, Esperantist
Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850 –May 1 1928) was a prominent British urban planner
William H. Whyte

William H. Whyte

male, deceased (1999)
Princeton University, CEO, journalism, chief executive officer, fortune, St. Andrew's School…Urbantheorist
William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte (1917- January 12 1999) was an American sociologist, journalist, and peoplewatcher. Whyte was born in West...
Peter Hall

Peter Hall

male
enterprise zone, British Government, Fellow of the British Academy, Urbantheorist, University College London, Urbanist
Sir Peter Hall is the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London and President of the Town and...
Joel Garreau

Joel Garreau

male, 61 years old
suburb, quality of life, author, American, technological singularity, Urbantheorist…urban secession
Joel Garreau is the author of Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies – and What It Means to Be Human , pu...
Walter Block

Walter Block

male, 68 years old
Austrian School economist, Jewish, Libertarian theorist, scientist, Jewish American, anarchist…Urbantheorist
Walter Block (born 1941) is a leading free market economist and anarcho-capitalist associated with the Austrian School.
Witold Rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski

male, 66 years old
Canadian of Polish descent, technology, Slate, From Montreal, urbanism, Bachelor of Architecture…Urbantheorist
Witold Rybczynski (born in 1943, in Edinburgh, Scotland), is a Canadian architect, professor and writer. Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish...