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Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
Frantz Fanon
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961)
Ferdinand Tönnies
German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)
Guy Debord
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch architect (1944-)
Robert Venturi
American architect (1925-2018)
Andrey Korotayev
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist
Manuel Castells
Spanish sociologist
E. B. White
American author (1899–1985)
Lewis Mumford
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
Henri Lefebvre
French philosopher (1901-1991)
Aldo Rossi
Italian architect (1931-1997)
David Harvey
British geographer and anthropologist
Patrick Geddes
British biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)
Ildefons Cerdà
Urban planner (1815-1876), noted for the extension plan of Barcelona
Moshe Safdie
Israeli-Canadian architect (born 1938)
Jane Jacobs
American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist (1916–2006)
Ebenezer Howard
British writer, founder of the garden city movement (1850–1928)
Paul Virilio
French philosopher (1932–2018)
Richard Sennett
American sociologist and academic
Christopher Alexander
American architect and design theorist (1936-2022)
Walter Block
Austrian School economist and prominent anarcho-capitalist
Paul Goodman
American writer and public intellectual (1911–1972)
Denise Scott Brown
American architect (born 1931)
Kevin A. Lynch
American urban planner and architect (1918-1984)
Jan Gehl
Danish architect and urban designer
Loïc Wacquant
French sociologist
Camillo Sitte
Austrian architect, painter and urbanist (1843-1903)
Richard Florida
American urban studies theorist
Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis
Greek architect (1913–1975)
Bogdan Bogdanović
Serbian architect, urbanist and essayist (1922-2010)
Marshall Berman
American philosopher (1940-2013)
Louis Wirth
German American sociologist (1897-1952)
Léon Krier
Luxembourgian architect (1946–2025)
Edward Soja
American urban planner (1940–2015)
Mike Davis
American writer, urban theorist, political activist, and historian from Southern California (1946–2022)
Michael Sorkin
American architect (1948-2020)
Rob Krier
Luxembourgish sculptor, architect, urban designer and theorist (1938-2023)
Dolores Hayden
American historian, architect, and poet
Peter Hall
town planner, urbanist and geographer (1932-2014)
Victor Gruen
Austrian architect (1903-1980)
Françoise Choay
French historian (1925–2025)
Daria Khaltourina
sociologist and anthropologist
Lucien Kroll
Belgian architect (1927–2022)
Matthew Desmond
American sociologist
Kunlé Adeyemi
architect, urbanist, creative researcher
Ian McHarg
Scottish landscape architect
Clarence Perry
American urban planner
Kristin Ross
American academic
Colin Rowe
British-born, American-naturalised architectural historian, critic, theoretician, and teacher (1920-1999)
James Howard Kunstler
American writer
Jamie Peck
British geographer
Peter Marcuse
German-American lawyer and professor (1928-2022)
Ananya Roy
Indian academic
William H. Whyte
American sociologist (1917-1999)
Percival Goodman
American architect (1904-1989)
Mikhail Okhitovich
Soviet sociologist, urbanist (1896–1937)
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American economist known for his work in economy of parking
Vladimir Nikolaevich Semyonov
Soviet architect (1874-1960)