Charles Mulford Robinson

Charles Mulford Robinson
Born(1869-04-30)April 30, 1869
Ramapo, New York, US
DiedDecember 30, 1917(1917-12-30) (aged 48)
Albany, New York, US
EducationUniversity of Rochester
OccupationJournalist
Spouse
Eliza Ten Eyck Pruyn
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(m. 1896)​

Charles Mulford Robinson (1869–1917) was an American journalist and a writer who became famous as a pioneering urban planning theorist. He has the greatest influence as a missionary for urban beautification. He was the first Professor for Civic Design at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which was only one of two universities offering courses in urban planning at the time, the other being Harvard.

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