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Mort Hoppenfeld
Morton Hoppenfeld (February 18, 1929 – March 26, 1985) was an American urban planner who worked for the Rouse Company on the development of the Village of Cross Keys in Columbia, Maryland, and Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia. Early career Hoppenfeld graduated MIT as a planner in 1952, served in the military, and obtained a Master's degree in planning from Berkeley. He worked under Edmond Bacon on Philadelphia's urban renewal planning committees. In 1959 he was hired by Bill Finley at the National Capital Planning Commission. Both Finley and Hoppenfeld joined the Rouse company together in 1963. Rouse Company Hoppenfeld worked as a planner for the Rouse Company on the Columbia, Maryland development in Howard County, Maryland starting with the development of the Village of Cross Keys. Hoppenfeld traveled on a six-week tour with Rouse in Europe to survey post-war planned communities. Hoppenfeld left the Rouse company in 1975 during company cutbacks to become the dean of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia, Maryland
Columbia is a census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland. It is one of the principal communities of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. It is a planned community consisting of 10 self-contained villages. Columbia began with the idea that a city could enhance its residents' quality of life. Creator and developer James W. Rouse saw the new community in terms of human values, rather than merely economics and engineering. Opened in 1967, Columbia was intended to not only eliminate the inconveniences of then-current subdivision design, but also eliminate racial, religious and class segregation. Columbia proper consists only of that territory governed by the Columbia Association, but larger areas are included under its name by the U.S. Postal Service and the Census Bureau. These include several other communities which predate Columbia, including Simpsonville, Atholton, and in the case of the census, part of Clarksville. The census-designated place had a popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
