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• Alexander, Christopher - He initiated a new approach to architectural thinking, in which the same set of laws determines the structure of a city; a building; or a single room. He has spent most of his life in searching for these laws. (Books: Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, Notes on the Synthesis of Form).
• Altshuler, Alan A. - Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Director of A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and the Rappaport Institute. (Books: The City Planning Process; Community Control: Black Demand for Particpation in Large American Cities; Urban Transportation System; Future of the Automobile; Regulation for Revenue; Political Economy of Land Use Exactions ; Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America).
• Burchell, Robert W. - Professor and co-director at the Center for Urban Policy Research. (Books: Development Impact Assessment Handbook, The Fiscal Impact Handbook, The New Practitioner's Guide to Fiscal Impact Analysis,The Adaptive Reuse Handbook, The Environmental Impact Handbook).
• Burnham, Daniel (1846-1912) - Burnham gained an even greater reputation for his influence as a city planner. He supervised the laying out and construction of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and, in 1909, Burnham and his assistant Edward H. Bennett (Michigan Avenue Bridge) prepared The Plan for Chicago.
• Calthorpe, Peter - An architect since 1972. Founded Calthorpe Associates in 1983. After attending Antioch College, he studied architecture at Yale University. A founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism.(Books: Sustainable Communities; The Next American Metropolis; Ecology, Community, and the American Dream; The Regional City).
• Carson, Richard - A Pacific Northwest writer, lecturer and practicing planner. Editor for “About Planning” and APA’s media editor websites. Director Clark County’s Community Development Dept (Vancouver, WA). 2001 Planetizen Top 10 writers. (Books: Common Sense, The POGO Report, Locating the Factories of the Future).
• Chapin, F. Stuart - Pioneer in the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina. Spent nearly four decades establishing and improving the department's urban studies curriculum. Distinguished Service Award from the American Institute of Planners, as well as the Historic Planning Pioneer Award. (Books: Urban Land Use Planning).
• Charles, John - Environmental Policy Director for the Cascade Policy Institute. The focus of his work is environmental, transportation and land-use policy. Published in The Oregonian, Arizona Republic, Business Journal, Hartford Courant, Brainstorm magazine, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. (Books: A Citizen's Guide to Smart Growth).
• Cullen, Gordon (1914-1994) - Gordon Cullen was a key motivator and activist in the development of British theories of urban design in the post-war period. (Books: The Concise Townscape).
• DeGrove, John - Continues to preach the gospel of growth management (smart growth) with a special focus on initiatives to contain sprawl and ensure sustainable urban and natural systems. Floria Atlantic University Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems Director from 1972 until February 1999. (Books: Land, Growth and Politics; Balanced Growth: A Planning Guide for Local Government).
• Downs, Anthony - Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He was for 18 years a member and then Chairman of Real Estate Research Corporation, a nationwide consulting firm advising private and public decision-makers on real estate investment, housing policies, and urban affairs.
• Doxiadis, Constantinos (1913-1975) - Author and founder of Doxiadis Associates, a private firm of consulting engineers, with a small group of architects and planners. (Books: Ekistics - An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements).
• Duany, Andres - Founding partner of two very influential architecture firms: Arquitectonica and Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. With the latter firm, he has co-designed the towns of Seaside and Kentlands, along with more than 140 other neighborhoods, towns, and cities. (Books: Suburban Nation).
• Fuller, R. Buckminster (1895-1983) - Inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist. (Books: Utopia or Oblivion).
• Fulton, William - Journalist, urban planner, researcher, pundit, and best-selling author. Regarded as one of the nation's leading commentators on urban planning, metropolitan growth, and economic development.(Books: California Land and Legacy).
• Garreau, Joel - Best-selling author and the editor in charge of cultural revolution reporting at The Washington Post. (Books: Edge City, The Nine Nations of North America).
• Gordon, Peter - Has recently written on the problems of the New Urbanism. He is also the co-editor (with David Beito) of "Voluntary Cities (forthcoming) and is currently at work on a book on the "sprawl" debate.
• Halprin, Lawrence - Awarded the AIA medal for Allied Professions,1964; Appointed to the first National Council on the Arts by President Johnson,1966; Appointed to the first Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 1967; Elected fellow in ASLA, 1969; Delivered the annual lecture for RIBA, 1971. (Books: The RSVP Cycles, Cities, Freeways).
• Holtz, Jane Kay - Architecture and planning critic for The Nation and author. She has written for Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Preservation and Sierra. (Books: Asphalt Nation, Preserving New England and Lost Boston).
• Howard, Ebenezer (1850-1928) - This is the planning theory based on the work Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Movement. (Books: Tomorrow: A peaceful path to Real Reform)
• Jacobs, Jane - She has used her own observations about cities to formulate her philosophy about them. Though some of her views went against the traditional views on planning, her work is well respected by practicing planners and planning students alike. (Books: Death and Life of Great American Cities, Cities and the Wealth of Nations).
• Kemmis, Daniel - Widely regarded as the Mountain West’s leading contemporary thinker and writer on topics of community, regionalism and human society. (Books: Community and the Politics of Place, The Good City and the Good Life).
• Krier, Leon - Krier may be best known to Americans as the architect behind the Prince of Wales's new town of Poundbury in Dorset, England, and as the intellectual godfather of the New Urbanism movement in America. (Books: Architecture: Choice of Fate).
• Kunstler, James Howard - Kunstler believes a lot of people share his feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. (Books: The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere).
• Le Corbusier (1870-1956) - Le Corbusier was the most important architect of the 20th century and dominated the architectural world, from that halcyon year of 1920, when he started publishing his magazine L'Esprit Nouveau, until his death in 1965.
• Lynch, Kevin - Influenced the field of city planning through his work on the theory of city form, and on the perception of the city environment and its consequences for city design. (Books: The Image of the City, What Time is This Place).
• McHarg, Ian (1920-2001) - McHarg's career has influenced several generations of architects, planners, and landscape architects. He was an environmentalist before it was fashionable. (Books: Design with Nature).
• Moses, Robert (1888-1981) - New York state and municipal official whose ambitious public works projects of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s transformed the urban landscape of New York City.
• Mumford, Lewis (1895-1990) - Lewis Mumford garnered many honors such as the National Book Award (1962); The Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964; a 1965 LLD from the University of Edinburgh; a doctorate of architecture from the University of Rome in 1967; the National Medal for Literature (1972). (Books: The City in History, The Urban Prospect).
• Olmsted, Fredrick Law (1822-1903) - Widely recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker. His first, his most loved, and in many ways he's best known work was his design of Central Park in New York city (1858-1876) with his partner Calvert Vaux.
• O'Toole, Randal - Economist and director of the Oregon-based Thoreau Institute since 1975. He has also been an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute since 1995. (Books: The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths).
• Peirce, Neal - Writes on metropolitan regions and their political and economic dynamics, their emerging national and global roles. (Books: The Book of America: Inside 50 States Today; Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World; Breakthroughs: Recreating The American City). ).
• Penn, William (1644-1718) - Penn's holy experiment and plan was idealistic to the point of utopianism. He wanted to establish a society that was godly, virtuous and exemplary for all of humanity.
• Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth - Architect and town planner who cofounded Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company in 1980. (Books: Suburban Nation).
• Pollio, Marcus Vitruvius (75-25 BC) - In the years just before Christ was born, he was the chief engineer of the civilized world. Author of the famous treatise that is divided into 10 books dealing with city planning and architecture (Books: De archtectura).
• Rusk, David - Author, consultant, and leading American regionalist who combines scholarship with practical political experience. Former state legislator in New Mexico and mayor of Albuquerque, the nation’s 36th largest city. (Books: Cities without Suburbs).
• Salingaros, Nikos A. - Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. (Books: Principles of Urban Structure, A Theory of Architecture).
• Sitte, Camillo (1843-1903) - Architect and urban planner, dedicated much of his time to various individual buildings (and craftwork and especially to problems related to urban planning. Co-founder of the magazine ´Urban Planning´. (Books: Birth of Modern City Planning, City Planning According to Artistic Principles).
• Soleri, Paolo - Author, visionary, architect, and pioneer of new human spaces. (Books: Arcosanti - An Urban Laboratory, Technology and Cosmogenesis, The Omega Seed, The Bridge Between Matter and Spirit is Matter Becoming Spirit, The City in the Image of Man).
• Staley, Samuel - Director of the Urban Futures Program of the Reason Public Policy Institute. (Books: Smarter Growth: Market-based Land-use Planning for the 21st Century).
• Whyte, William (1919-1999) - Editor of Fortune magazine, wrote a best-selling 1956 work, distinguished scholar of the human habitat and urbanologist. (Books: The Organization Man, City, Cluster Development, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces).

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