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George Burdett Ford
George Burdett Ford
Born	June 24, 1879; Clinton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	August 15, 1930 (aged 51); New York City, New York, U.S.

George Burdett Ford (June 24, 1879 – August 15, 1930) was an American architect and urban planner.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burdett_Ford

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Biography

Ford was born June 24, 1879, in Clinton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1899, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901, and studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1903 to 1907.

He was an architect and planner with George B. Post & Sons in New York from 1907 to 1917. In 1913, while employed by Post, he established the Technical Advisory Corporation (TAC) with engineer Ernest P. Goodrich, the first private urban planning consulting firm in the United States. Ford was also a reserve major in the U.S. Army and consulting architect for the city of New York, he later became a consultant for the War Department.

In May 1918, he was a representative in France for the American Red Cross and responsible for the Red Cross reconstruction of war zones in Europe. On May 3, 1918, he was invited by Léon Bourgeois to participate in a meeting in the Senate of the parliamentary group of the invaded regions.^[1]

He then worked for the Renaissance of cities^{[note 1]} on town planning plans for the reconstruction of Reims and Soissons between 1919 and 1920.

Ford's project for Reims is submitted to the Higher Commission which, under the Cornudet law,^{[note 2]} is responsible for approving the extension plans. To rebuild the city imagined by Ford, new, modern, healthy, opposing the practical to the beautiful, it would have been necessary to literally level Reims. On May 23, 1920, Ernest Kalas, inspector of the historical excavations of Reims, opposed the Ford plan by publishing a strong criticism; On May 29, this commission refused it and sent it back to the municipality of Reims. André Hallays signs a virulent article against him in the illustration of June 5, 1920. The final version of the plan is finally adopted on August 13, 1920 and will not be applied as a whole. Only a few axes, and the garden cities initially planned outside the hyper-center, bear witness to the innovative character of the project, and its true urban planning logic.

In 1920 Ford served as a consultant to the T. H. Russell Sage Foundation for the development of the New York Regional Plan, served as an advisor to numerous city and regional governing bodies, and was the founder of the journal City Planning .

In 1923 he returned to America and worked at TAC (Technical Advisory Corporation) in New York. He was also an advisor for the urban planning of Manila in 1929 and a teacher at Harvard.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t00z82117&seq=47&q1=peabody

Died August 13, 1930, at the Doctors' Hospital in New York City, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.^[2]

https://archive.org/details/sim_recreation_1930-11_24_8/page/462/mode/2up?q=%22george+Burdett+ford%22

https://archive.org/details/sim_architectural-record_1930-10_68_4/page/n101/mode/2up?q=%22george+Burdett+ford%22

Planned cities

Works

Modern French Ornamental Ironwork (1906)
Ironwork of the Grand Palais de Beaux-Arts, Paris (1906)
The Mercedes Hotel, Paris (1906)
The Housing Problem (1909)
The relation of city planning to the municipal budget (1911)
Digging Deeper Into City Planning (1912)
Newark City Plan Commission, Preliminary report to the commission (1912) with Ernest P. Goodrich
Report of suggested plan of procedure for the city of Jersey City, New Jersey (1913) with Ernest P. Goodrich
Report of suggested plan of procedure for the village of Dobbs Ferry, New York (1913) with Ernest P. Goodrich
The market of the near future (1913)
The City Scientific (1913)
Development and Present Status of City Planning in New York City (1914)
What Has Been Accomplished in City Planning during the Year 1916 (1916)
City Planning Progress in the United States (1917)
New York City Building Zone Resolution (1917)
Out Of The Ruins (1919)
How Zoning Affects Living Conditions (1921)
Planning the Attractive Town (1921)
Rural Town Planning in France (1921)
What Planning Has Done for Cities (1924)
Building Height, Bulk, and Form: Harvard City Planning Studies, Volume II (1931)

Aide-mémoire de l'urbaniste, éd. la Renaissance des cités, Paris, 1916.
Out of the ruins..., New York : Century Co, 1919.
L'urbanisme en pratique ; Précis de l'urbanisme dans toute son extension ; Pratique comparée en Amérique et en Europe, Paris : E. Leroux, 1920. lire en ligne sur Gallica
Development and present status of city planning in New York City, New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionme Plan.
Building height, bulk, and form; how zoning can be used as a protection against uneconomic types of buildings on high-cost land, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1931.

Notes

^ The Renaissance des Cités association, known as “mutual aid and social action,” was created in 1916, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, to serve as a design office for municipalities with a view to their reconstruction. Around personalities like Georges Risler, Raoul Dautry, or Marcel Poëte, this association brings together founding architects of the French Society of Urban Planners, Agache, Auburtin, Jaussely and others like Bonnier, Jourdain and even Le Corbusier.
^ The Cornudet law of March 14, 1919 ordered towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants to establish within three years a development, beautification and extension project. This plan, once declared of public utility by the Council of State, would become the obligatory reference for all public and private works. The law aimed above all at the reconstruction of the destroyed cities of the North and East.

References

^ Dominique Potier, Reims 1919-1930, reconstruire la cité, Éditions Carnet de Sentier, Reims, 2015
^ "George B. Ford Dies; Noted Architect". The New York Times. Vol. LXXIX, no. 26501. August 15, 1930. p. 17.

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Bibliography

Olivier Rigaud et Marc Bédarida, Reims Reconstruction 1920-1930, Ville de Reims, 1988.
Dominique Potier, Reims 1919-1930, reconstruire la cité, Éditions Carnet de Sentier, Reims, 2015, ISBN 978-2-9553-7290-6
François-Xavier Tassel, La reconstruction de Reims après 1918, illustration de la naissance d'un urbanisme d'État, thèse de doctorat, Université de Paris VIII, 1987

Liens externes

[[Category:Garden suburbs]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni]] [[Category:American urban planners]] [[Category:20th-century American architects]] [[Category:Articles with authority control information]]

[2] The Renaissance des Cités association, known as “mutual aid and social action,” was created in 1916, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, to serve as a design office for municipalities with a view to their reconstruction. Around personalities like Georges Risler, Raoul Dautry, or Marcel Poëte, this association brings together founding architects of the French Society of Urban Planners, Agache, Auburtin, Jaussely and others like Bonnier, Jourdain and even Le Corbusier.

[3] The Cornudet law of March 14, 1919 ordered towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants to establish within three years a development, beautification and extension project. This plan, once declared of public utility by the Council of State, would become the obligatory reference for all public and private works. The law aimed above all at the reconstruction of the destroyed cities of the North and East.

[1] Dominique Potier, Reims 1919-1930, reconstruire la cité, Éditions Carnet de Sentier, Reims, 2015

[4] "George B. Ford Dies; Noted Architect". The New York Times. Vol. LXXIX, no. 26501. August 15, 1930. p. 17.

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