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

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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.

He then worked for the Renaissance of cities 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, 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.

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Planned cities

 * East Orange, New Jersey https://archive.org/details/cityplanforeast00east/page/4/mode/2up?q=&#x22;george+b+ford&#x22;
 * Omaha, Nebraska https://archive.org/details/preliminarystudi00omah/page/2/mode/2up?q=&#x22;george+b+ford&#x22;
 * Jersey City, New Jersey

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.

Liens externes

 * La cité-jardin à Reims au 20th century
 * La reconstruction de Reims, Le plan Ford