Reinhard Baumeister
Illustration — 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. An early translation of one of his writings into English was The Cleaning and Sewerage of Cities published in New York in 1891.
Reinhard Baumeister
Peter U. Quattländer: Heilbronn. Planung des Wiederaufbaus der Altstadt. Dokumentation zur Ausstellung des Stadtplanungsamtes 1994. Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1994, ISBN 3-928990-45-4 (Kleine S · Public domain
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- Reinhard Baumeister was born in 1833. · Hamburg.
- Died
- Reinhard Baumeister died in 1917. · Karlsruhe.
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- Germany
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- university teacher · urban planner · writer · civil engineer · architect · official
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- construction industry · architecture · building plan · architectural project
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- German
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Illustration — 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. An early translation of one of his writings into English was The Cleaning and Sewerage of Cities published in New York in 1891.
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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.
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- 1.Ward, Stephen V.: Planning the Twentieth-Century City: The Advanced Capitalist World, Wiley, 2002
- 2.MIT Library: "150 Years in the Stacks" , retrieved 11 November 2012
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