Lisa Peattie

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Lisa Peattie

Lisa Redfield Peattie (born March 1, 1924 in Chicago - † December 13, 2018 ) was an American urban anthropologist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She was known in particular for her participation concept in urban planning, which integrates the interests of all those involved in the planning process and supports them ("lawyer planning"). Peattie published numerous papers on slums and informal settlements .

Life

Peattie's grandfather was the urban sociologist Robert E. Park , who taught at the University of Chicago . her father was the anthropologist Robert Redfield , who also taught at the University of Chicago. Because of his father's work, Peattie grew up in the Mexican states of Morelos and Yucatán , where his parents did field research.

After completing her doctorate in anthropology at the University of Chicago , Lisa Peattie worked from 1948 on a project on the Indian tribe of the Fox (also: Meskwaki ) in Iowa under Sol Tax .

In 1943 she married Roderick Elia Peattie. With him she published the children's books "The Law: What It is and How It Works" and "The City". The couple has three daughters.

In 1962, Lisa and Roderick Peattie were enlisted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University's Joint Center for Urban Studies . With a contract from the Venezuelan government, they should plan the city of Guiana at the confluence of the Orinoco and Caroni rivers. The team of anthropologists and architects should unite the cities of San Félix and Puerto Ordaz. The Peatties were the only planners who lived on site. All the others worked from Caracas, around 660 kilometers away . Lisa Peattie was able to see the effects of urban planning over the heads of the population directly; she later processed these findings in the book "The View from the Barrio".

Roderick Peattie died in a car accident in Venezuela in 1963. Lisa Peattie then returned to the United States and taught urban planning at MIT until she retired .

In 1966, Peattie and fellow faculty members and students from MIT and Harvard University founded the Urban Planning Aid (UPA). This organization offered help for the local population with housing issues. She was also involved in urban redevelopment and the highway revolts of the 1960s and 1970s. As a result of this fight against the construction of freeways and highways, Peattie began to deal intensively with economic theories, all of which were in favor of expanding the infrastructure.

She was also increasingly concerned with issues of poverty. She got involved in a project for the homeless and founded the street newspaper "Spare Change News" with others . In addition, it campaigned increasingly against nuclear weapons. She was arrested several times for her political commitment.

Awards

  • 1999: ACSP Distinguished Educator Award

Fonts

  • with Roderick Peattie: The Law: What It is and How It Works . Henry Schuman, New York 1952
  • with Roderick Peattie: The City . Henry Schuman, New York, 1952
  • The View From The Barrio . University of Michigan , 1968, ISBN 0-472-72280-8
  • The informal sector: A few facts from Bogota, some comments and a list of issues . 1974
  • Living poor: A view from the bottom . (= Urban poverty, a comparison of the Latin American and the United States experience , Volume 4), School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles 1975
  • Thinking about Development . Springer, New York 1982, ISBN 0-306-40761-2
  • with Martin Rein: Women's Claims: A Study in Political Economy . Oxford University Press , 1983, ISBN 0-19-877180-0
  • Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana . University of Michigan Press, 1987, ISBN 0-472-08069-5
  • New politics, the state, and planning . UCLA, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1987
  • Planners and protesters: Airport opposition as social movement . (= Institute for Urban Studies monograph series, Volume 9), University of Maryland at College Park, Institute for Urban Studies, 1991, ISBN 0-913749-19-2

literature

  • Lisa Peatie . In: Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association . December 7, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Remembering Lisa Peattie. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning, accessed January 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Lisa Redfield Peattie. Casper Funeral Services, accessed January 13, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Ben Wisner: Advocacy and Geography: The case of Boston's Urban Planning Aid . In: Antepode . 2, No. 2, August 1970, pp. 25-29. doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-8330.1970.tb00471.x .
  4. ^ Robert E. Park, Sociology , University of Chicago
  5. ↑ On Iowa's Meskwaki Settlement, a group of Chicago anthropology students went beyond observation and tried to help their research subjects. Fifty-six years later, action anthropology is the stuff of footnotes — and Meskwaki memory , The University of Chicago Magazine, April 2004
  6. ↑ Claudia Mareis, Matthias Held, Gesche Joost (eds.): Who designs the design ?: Practice, theory and history of participatory design . transcript, Bielefeld 20913, p. 55
  7. ^ Lisa Peattie, Martin Rein: Women's Claims: A Study in Political Economy . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1983, ISBN 978-0198771807
  8. ↑ Lisa Peattie: Village Life in the Global Economy , Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003 (PDF)
  9. ↑ Urban Planning Aid: Records, 1966–1982 ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lib.umb.edu
  10. ^ A b One night in the Beatty lockup , Commonweal, Vol. 114, No. 5, March 1975
  11. ↑ Sam Osofsky: Protestors arrested at rally , The Tech Online, May 10, 1985
  12. ↑ ACSP Award History ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acsp.org
personal data
SURNAME Peattie, Lisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peattie, Lisa Redfield (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2018