Background
Wallace, David Alexander was born on August 30, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of David A. and Grace (Eaton) Wallace.
( Internationally renowned architect and planner David Wa...)
Internationally renowned architect and planner David Wallace left an indelible mark on the American urban landscape with his inspiring and successful urban renewal projects and innovative design and planning methods. Wallace vividly recounts in his memoir his illustrious urban planning and design career--one that spanned more than five decades. He reveals the inside story of how large-scale urban development projects succeed and traces the creation of his pioneering planning and design principles and methods through case studies of his work in Baltimore and other cities. Wallace's engaging narrative relates his first, and perhaps best-known, major success--the redevelopment of Baltimore's Charles Center that sparked a downtown renaissance and the spectacular renewal of the Inner Harbor. He reflects on his urban growth modeling method that became the basis for award-winning plans for New York's World Financial Center and Battery Park City. He draws on these experiences to urge contemporary planners to look beyond Ground Zero and plan for all of Lower Manhattan. A valuable eyewitness history of the evolution of urban design and planning, Urban Planning/My Way is a readable and captivating memoir by one of the foremost twentieth-century American architects and urbanists.
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Wallace, David Alexander was born on August 30, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of David A. and Grace (Eaton) Wallace.
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1940; Master in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1941; M.City Planning, Harvard, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1953.
With various architectural offices, 1941, 46-48; supervising planner, Chicago Housing Authority, 1951; assistant director, Marshall Field Foundation Study of Housing of Low Income Groups, 1952; assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1952; director planning, Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, 1953-1957; director planning, Council Greater Baltimore Committee, 1957-1961; professor city planning, University of Pennsylvania School Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1961-1972; Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania School Fine Arts, 1972-1976; partner, Wallace, McHarg, Roberts & Todd, Philadelphia, 1963-1979; partner, Wallace Roberts & Todd, Philadelphia, 1980-1992. Consultant Wallace, Roberts & Todd, since 1993.
( Internationally renowned architect and planner David Wa...)
Served to major Army of the United States, 1941-1946. Fellow American Institute of Architects. Member American Planning Association (Board of Governors 1961-1963), American Institute Certified Planners.
Married Joan Heatly Dulles, October 23, 1954. 1 stepchild, Robert N. Cunningham III.