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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. 1450 AD Nezahualcoyotl - Texcoco (altepetl), Aztec Mexico

 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 and 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)

 1935-1981 Eldridge Lovelace - many US cities.

 1938 Donald Gibson - Coventry, England

 1942 Arthur Korn and Felix Samuely - MARS plan for London

 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.)

 1968 Agustín Landa Verdugo - Cancun, Mexico

 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

 1978 J. Michael Cobb - Jubail New Industrial City, Jubail, Saudi Arabia

 1980 Stanton Eckstut - Battery Park City, New York, New York

 1984 Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk - Seaside, Florida

 1990 Peter Calthorpe - Laguna West, California

 1992 Vladimir Arana - Chorrillos, Lima, Peru

 1999 Michael E. Arth, New Pedestrianism, Downtown DeLand's Garden District (2001)

 2002 Rick Abelson - Sylvia Park, Auckland, New Zealand

 2003 Christopher Charles Benninger, Thimphu, Bhutan


 2006 Steven Bingler - New Orleans, Louisiana (Unified New Orleans Plan) [1]

 1987 Suki Mee (Malaysia) - Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia[citation needed]

 2007 Mohammad Atikul Islam - Urban Planner, Bangladesh[citation needed]

 2007 Md. Jubaer Rashid - Urban Planner, Bangladesh[citation needed]

 2009 Tanvir Ahmed Parash - Urban Planner, Bangladesh[citation needed]

 2011 Kamonashish Haldar - Bagerhat Municipality[citation needed]

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