Jaqueline Tyrwhitt

Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (25 May 1905 – 21 February 1983) was a British town planner, journalist, editor and educator. She was at the centre of the transnational network of theoreticians and practitioners who shaped the post-war Modern Movement in decentralized community design, residential architecture and social reform. She contributed to developing methods for the application of the ideas of Patrick Geddes, as well as publicizing them. Tyrwhitt had not met Geddes, but she was able to extract some key ideas and concepts from his writings. She brought Geddesian thinking into conferences, discussions, curricula, publications, and policy documents.

In the 1950s she was a professor at the University of Toronto, where she helped establish a graduate program in city and regional planning. Then, in 1955, she moved to the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the Department of City Planning and Landscape Architecture, where she taught for many years until her retirement. Provided by Wikipedia