John Nolen: The Background of a Pioneer Planner

Abstract

The early development of modern physical planning as a separate profession in the United States coincides with the reform period in our political history known as the “progressive era.” Both phenomena were new attempts at dealing with a changed condition-the emergence of America as a culture whose traditional lifeways had become increasingly depersonal, thoroughly industrialized, and predominantly urban. Of the planners, few seem to have been better prepared to deal with the demands of a rapidly changing order than John Nolen, whose background prior to his first major works in 1909 exemplifies that mixture of ongoing attitudes and innovations necessary to meet changing cultural conditions.

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