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Blumenfeld, Hans
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1892-1988
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Hans Blumenfeld was an urban and regional planner, educator, author and a consultant. Appointed to the Russian State City Planning Institute from 1930 to 1933, Blumenfeld left the USSR in 1937 for the US where he worked primarily for the Philadelphia Planning Commission. He came to Canada in 1955 as assistant director of the Metropolitan Toronto Planning Board and was instrumental in shaping Toronto and its hinterland. In 1961 he became a private consultant and in 1964 a professor at University of Toronto. He was the author of numerous acclaimed articles and books, including The Modern Metropolis (1967) and Metropolis and Beyond (1979). His most significant contribution was his vision of the "metropolis" as a new urban organism whose unique scale and structure require diagnosis and treatment.
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"Hans Blumenfeld." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hans-blumenfeld.