Citation

Birch EL. J. Plann. Lit. 1989; 4(3): 239-258.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/088541228900400301

PMID

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Abstract

Catherine Bauer, recently designated a "planning pioneer" by the American Institute of Certified Planners, was a major theorist in the field of planning between 1934 and 1964, a critical era for the profession. Her influence rested on a variety of positions that she took in her writing. This paper surveys this work and shows how she focused on five questions treating housing, urban redevelopment, regional planning, suburbanization, social planning, and urbanization in the third world. No one in the profession today is duplicating Bauer's role as an observer and critic of the urban world.