Lisa Peattie Explained

Lisa Peattie
Birth Date:March 1, 1924
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Fields:Urban Anthropology
Workplaces:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Education:University of Chicago (Ph.D.)
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Thesis Year:1968
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Known For:Advocacy planning
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Lisa Redfield Peattie (1924–2018)[1] [2] was an American anthropologist and professor of urban anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was best known for her work in advocacy planning, a type of urban planning which seeks social change by including all interests and groups in the planning process.[3] Peattie, who earned her Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1968,[4] published extensively on slums and squatter settlements. She also engaged in numerous peace actions, and had a long, although minor and nonviolent, arrest record.[5] [6]

Biography

Born in Chicago, she was brought up partly in Mexico, in Morelos and Yucatán, where her parents Robert Redfield and Margaret Park Redfield were conducting fieldwork.[7] Her grandfather, Robert E. Park, was an American urban sociologist who worked with Booker T Washington (with whom he shared a fascination with cities and the theory of cities) at the Tuskegee Institute. Together they searched for "The Man Farthest Down".[8] He later taught at the University of Chicago[9] on the theory of urban ecology. Her father was an anthropologist, also at the University of Chicago, had an interest in tracing connections – between archaeology, anthropological linguistics, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and ethnology in a synthesis of disciplines[10] and between village cultures in his fieldwork.[11]

She began her anthropological life in 1948 with the Fox Project, which began as a summer of fieldwork for six Chicago graduate students, at Meskwaki Settlement in Iowa, and which, with the encouragement of Sol Tax, became a decade-long effort to redefine anthropology not as pure science, but as part of the human and moral landscape, in what he called "action anthropology", and which was later to reappear in her urban planning work as "advocacy planning".[12] [13] [14]

In 1943 she married Roderick Elia Peattie, the nephew of her aunt's husband.[15] [16] She published two children’s books with him: The Law[17] and The City,[18] which began her lifelong study of cities.

In 1962 Lisa and Roderick Peattie were hired by the Harvard–MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies, under a contract with the Venezuelan government, as project anthropologist and architect respectively, to help plan the city of Guayana, near the junction of the Orinoco and the Caroni rivers in the interior of Venezuela. They were the only members of the team to live on the site; the rest of the design team worked on the project from the capitol, Caracas, 660 km away. She observed directly the effects of the then-new profession of Urban Planning as it was experienced by the planned-upon population; she reported this radicalizing experience in her first popular book: The View from the Barrio.

Roderick Peattie died in Venezuela, in a car accident in 1963. Lisa Peattie returned to the United States, where she taught urban planning at MIT until her retirement.

In 1966 she, with other faculty and students of M.I.T. and Harvard, organized Urban Planning Aid. This organization was to offer assistance to local residents against highway construction, and housing problems. It took an active part in the urban renewal fights and the Freeway and expressway revolts of the 1960s and 1970s.[3] In the course of these anti-development struggles, she began a study and critique of conventional economic theory, which was strongly pro-development.[19] [20] [21]

She inspired activists in such widely varied subjects as poverty and conviviality.[22] [23] She also was involved in the Homeless Empowerment Project, and in the creation of "Spare Change News", a street newspaper whose mission is "to present, by our own example, that homeless and economically disadvantaged people, with the proper resources, empowerment, opportunity, and encouragement are capable of creating change for ourselves in society."[24] She also became involved in the fight against nuclear arms.[25]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Remembering Lisa Peattie | MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. dusp.mit.edu.
  2. Web site: Lisa Redfield Peattie Obituary . www.currentobituary.com.
  3. 10.1111/j.1467-8330.1970.tb00471.x . Antipode . Ben . Wisner . 2 . 2 . August 1970 . 25–29 . Advocacy and Geography: The case of Boston's Urban Planning Aid. 1970Antip...2...25W .
  4. Book: Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association. 1972. 7 December 2014.
  5. Web site: Protestors arrested at rally - The Tech. Tech.mit.edu. 7 December 2014.
  6. Web site: Commonweal Commonweal - One night in the Beatty lockup. Search.opinionarchves.com. 7 December 2014.
  7. Web site: Lisa Peattie, professor emerita of urban studies and planning, dies at 94 . January 14, 2019 . MIT News . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200401161040/https://news.mit.edu/2019/lisa-peattie-dusp-professor-emerita-dies-0114 . April 1, 2020 . April 1, 2020.
  8. "The man farthest down: a record of observation and study in Europe", Booker T. Washington, Robert Ezra Park, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1912
  9. Web site: Robert E. Park, Sociology. Lib.uchicago.edu. 7 December 2014.
  10. Book: Rees, David . The Ethnographic Moment: Correspondence of Robert Redfield and F.G. Freidmann . . 2006. 0-7658-0333-X.
  11. Book: Rubinstein, Robert A. . Doing Fieldwork: The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax . . 2001 . 0-7658-0735-1.
  12. Web site: The University of Chicago Magazine: April 2004. Magazine.uchicago.edu. 7 December 2014.
  13. Book: Washburn, Wilcomb E.. Against the Anthropological Grain. April 11, 1998. Transaction Publishers. 9781412816632. Google Books.
  14. Web site: Metapress | A Fast Growing Resource for Young Entrepreneurs. December 14, 2017.
  15. Smith . Guy-Harold . 1957 . RODERICK PEATTIE, GEOGRAPHER AND ROMANTICIST, 1891–1955 . Annals of the Association of American Geographers . en . 47 . 1 . 97–99 . 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1957.tb01525.x . 0004-5608.
  16. Book: Peattie, Donald Culross . Flowering earth . 1991 . Indiana University Press . 978-0-253-34308-6 . Bloomington . 1939.
  17. "The Law: What It is and How It Works", Peattie, Rod and Lisa, Henry Schuman, New York 1952
  18. "The City", Peattie, Rod And Lisa Henry Schuman,, NY: 1952
  19. Book: Women's Claims: A Study in Political Economy . registration . Lisa . Peattie . Martin . Rein . Oxford University Press . 1983 . 978-0198771807.
  20. Web site: Village Life in the Global Economy . Lisa Peattie Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003. 7 December 2014.
  21. Web site: Urban Planning Aid : Records, 1966-1982. Lib.umb.edu. 7 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141219122124/http://www.lib.umb.edu/node/1645. 19 December 2014. dead. dmy-all.
  22. Web site: What if there is no water? (Zainab). Teaser. 7 April 2007 . 7 December 2014.
  23. Web site: Setting the Stage for Conviviality" Exhibit Files, "Convivial Cities" . Wendy Pollock . August 1, 2011.
  24. Lisa Redfield Peattie. Real Change News. Timothy. Harris. 15. 47l.
  25. Book: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 32. lisa peattie.. Internet Archive. March 1982. Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science . 7 December 2014.
  26. Web site: ACSP Award History - ACSP: Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Acsp.org. 7 December 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141209142431/http://www.acsp.org/awards/history. 9 December 2014.

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