F. J. Osborne’s scientific contributions

... Since the inception of city planning, the relationship between social interactions and the built environment has been a topic of intense focus for both social scientists and urban designers (Talen 2017). The normative concepts of urban utopias prescribed by architects like Ebeneezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier included distinct visions for how densely populated and separated/integrated land uses could facilitate the ideal level of interaction between a resident and (a) her neighbors, and (b) her natural surroundings (Corbusier 1986, Campbell and Fainstein 1996, Howard and Osborn 2001. Combining these visions with ideas from Wirth (1938) and the famous 'neighborhood unit plan' articulated by Perry (1929), large scale developers like James Rouse developed concepts for New Towns like Columbia, Maryland that were based largely on the design of insular street networks (Olsen 2003). ...

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Segregated by design? Street network topological structure and the measurement of urban segregation