John Friedmann (room planner)

John Friedmann (born April 16, 1926 as Hans Friedmann in Vienna ; † June 11, 2017 in Vancouver ) was an American city and regional planner of Austrian origin. Because of the increasing persecution of the Jews in the 1930s , he emigrated with his parents to the United States, where he received citizenship in 1944 at the age of 18.

Life path

1955 doctorate he attended the University of Chicago in the subjects of spatial planning , economics and geography . Since 1952 he has taught at numerous universities around the world, including four years at MIT in Boston, and as a visiting professor in Berkeley, Johannesburg, Taiwan a. a. He also gave lectures in German-speaking countries: at the Max Planck Institute in Starnberg , at the University of Dortmund and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business . Since 2001 he has taught as an honorary professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia . Prior to that, he was an academic at the University of Melbourne (Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, 1999–2001). Until 1999 he worked for years at the University of California, Los Angeles, at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning and the School of Public Policy and Social Research .

In 1986, together with Goetz Wolff , he published the world city hypothesis comprising seven theses . This work was an essential contribution to the definition of modern world cities and also included a list of the 30 world cities of that time.

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Publications

on urbanization and development policy

• The Spatial Structure of Economic Development in the Tennessee Valley (Research Monograph). Department of Geography, University of Chicago, 1955.
• Regional Development Policy: A Case Study of Venezuela. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1966.
• Urbanization, Planning, and National Development. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1973. Out of print. Spanish translation (Mexico City: Editorial Diana, 1976).
• The Urban Transition: Comparative Studies of Newly Industrializing Societies. London: Edward Arnold, Ltd., 1976. (With Robert Wulff). Translated into Bahasa, Malaysia.
• Territory and Function: The Evolution of Regional Planning. London: Edward Arnold, Ltd., and Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1979. (With Clyde Weaver). Translated into Spanish (Madrid: Instituto de Estudios de Administracion Local, 1981).
• Life Space and Economic Space: Essays in Third World Planning. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988.
• Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development. Cambridge, Mass .: Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Japanese edition, 1995. Portuguese edition by CELTA Editora, Lisboa, 1996. Italian edition 2004, with additional materials (“Empowerment verso Il 'Potere di Tutti'”, edizione italiana a cura di Alberto L'Abate, Torre dei Nolfe [AQ]).
• The Prospect of Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
• China's Urban Transition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Space planning:

• Introduction to Democratic Planning. Rio de Janeiro: Getulio Vargas Foundation, 1959. (In Portuguese).
• Venezuela: From Doctrine to Dialogue. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1965. Out of print.
• Retracking America: A Theory of Transactive Planning. Garden City: Doubleday and Anchor Books, 1973. An Urban Affairs Library Selection. (Reissued with a new Preface, by Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 1981). Out of print.
• The Good Society. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1979. Paperback, 1982.
• Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action. Princeton University Press, 1987. Partially translated as Planificación en el Ambito Público, Madrid: MAP, 1991, revised and expanded, 2001. Italian translation: Bari: Edizione Dedalo, 1993.
• Dialectic of reason. A lecture at the University of Dortmund. Dortmund contributions to spatial planning No. 55 Blue Series. IRPUD, 1991.

Books

The following books were written or co-authored by John Friedmann:

• William Alonso and John Friedmann, eds., Regional Development and Planning: A Reader. MIT Press, Cambridge 1964. An Urban Affairs Library Selection.
• "Regional Development and Planning," special issue, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, May 1964.
• Chile: Contribuciones a las Politicas Urbana, Regional y Habitacional. Santiago, Chile: Centro de Desarrollo Urbana y Regional, 1970.
• William Alonso and John Friedmann, eds., Regional Policy: Readings in Theory and Applications. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1975. A completely revised edition of the 1964 Reader (item 1). An Urban Affairs Library selection.
• Leland S. Burns and John Friedmann, eds., The Art of Planning: Selected Writings of Harvey S. Perloff, NY: Plenum Press, 1985.
• Mike Douglass and John Friedmann, eds., Transnational Capital and Urbanization on the Pacific Rim: Proceedings of a Conference, UCLA, Center for Pacific Rim Studies, 1987.
• John Friedmann and Haripriya Rangan, eds., In Defense of Livelihood: Comparative Studies on Environmental Action. Hartford, Conn .: Kumarian Press, 1993.
• John Friedmann, Rebecca Abers and Lilian Autler, eds. Emergences: Women's Struggles for Livelihood in Latin America. UCLA, Center for Latin American Studies, 1995.
• Mike Douglass and John Friedmann, eds., Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society in a Global Age. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
• John Friedmann, ed., Urban and Regional Governance in the Asia Pacific. Vancouver: Institute of Asian Research, UBC, 1999.
• John Friedmann, ed., "Urban Impacts and Responses of the Asian Economic Crisis." Special issue of The Asian Geographer, 2000.
• Special issue of Urban Planning Overseas (in Chinese translation), October 2005 (vol. 20: 5) with an introduction by Zhang Tingwei. Seven selected essays by John Friedmann.

Web links

• Professorships and theses of John Friedmann on the homepage of the University of Los Angeles (doc. Document)
• Research Bulletin of the Globalization and World Cities Group (GaWC) at Loughborough University in the UK on World Cities, referring to John Friedmann's World City Hypothesis - published in Mitteilungen der Österreichische Geographische Gesellschaft , 145 (2003), pp. 35-55.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-memoriam:-john-friedmann-91-was-the-father-of-urban-planning-at-ucla