Reinhard Baumeister (19 March 1833 in

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– 11 February 1917 in

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) was a German engineer and

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, the author of one of the earliest texts on

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''Stadterweiterungen in technischer, baupolizeilicher und Wirtschaftlicher Beziehung '' (Town extensions: their links with technical and economic concerns and with building regulations) published in 1876. It was used as a textbook at the first urban planning course in Germany, at the college of technology in

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in 1880.Ward, Stephen V.: ''Planning the Twentieth-Century City: The Advanced Capitalist World'', Wiley, 2002 An early translation of one of his writings into English was ''The Cleaning and Sewerage of Cities'' published in New York in 1891.MIT Library: "150 Years in the Stacks"
retrieved 11 November 2012

Biography

Baumeister was a professor of civil engineering with experience in railway construction when he entered the field of planning by winning the 1872 competition for the urban extension of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baumeister, Reinhard German urban planners 1833 births 1917 deaths