Reinhard Baumeister
Reinhard Baumeister (19 March 1833 in Hamburg – 11 February 1917 in Karlsruhe) was a German engineer and urban planner, the author of one of the earliest texts on urban planning Stadterweiterungen in technischer, baupolizeilicher und Wirtschaftlicher Beziehung (Town extensions: their links with technical and economic concerns and with building regulations) published in 1876. It was used as a textbook at the first urban planning course in Germany, at the college of technology in Aachen in 1880.[1] An early translation of one of his writings into English was The Cleaning and Sewerage of Cities published in New York in 1891.[2]
Biography[edit]
Baumeister was a professor of civil engineering with experience in railway construction when he entered the field of planning by winning the 1872 competition for the urban extension of Mannheim.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Ward, Stephen V.: Planning the Twentieth-Century City: The Advanced Capitalist World, Wiley, 2002
- ^ MIT Library: "150 Years in the Stacks", retrieved 11 November 2012
External links[edit]
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