Mort Hoppenfeld

Mort Hoppenfeld
Born c. 1930
Died March 26, 1985
Columbia, Maryland
Cause of death Heart Attack
Alma mater Berkeley
Occupation Urban Planner
Employer Rouse Company

Mort Hoppenfeld (c. 1930 – March 26, 1985) was an Urban Planner who worked for the Rouse Company on the development of the Village of Cross Keys in Columbia, Maryland, and Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia.

Early career

Hoppenfeld graduated MIT as a planner in 1952, served in the military, and obtained a Master's degree in planning from Berkeley. He worked under Edmond Bacon on Philadelphia's urban renewal planning committees. In 1959 he was hired by Bill Finley at the National Capital Planning Commission. Both Finley and Hoppenfeld joined the Rouse company together in 1963.[1][2]

Rouse Company

Hoppenfeld worked as a planner for the Rouse Company on the Columbia, Maryland development in Howard County, Maryland starting with the development of the Village of Cross Keys.[3] Hoppenfeld traveled on a six week tour with Rouse in Europe to survey post-war planned communities.[4] Hoppenfeld left the Rouse company in 1975 during company cutbacks to become the dean of the University of New Mexico school of architecture and planning.[5] Hoppenfeld returned to Columbia to form a private consulting company and teach at Catholic University.[6] In 1982 he joined Enterprise Community Partners with James Rouse.

In 1984, Hoppenfeld was sent by Rouse to Australia to develop Darling Harbour including a Festival marketplace design modeled after the Inner Harbor.[7] Hoppenfeld died of a heart attack while jogging in Columbia in 1985, before the project was completed.

A statue located on the edge of Lake Kittamaqundi named "The Hug" by Jimilu Mason was commissioned to honor Hoppenfeld.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Baker, Edwin (18 March 2014). "Inner Arbor wrong for Columbia". The Baltimore Sun.
  2. ↑ Joseph Rocco Mitchell, David L. Stebenne. A New City Upon a Hill. p. 67.
  3. ↑ James Holechek. Baltimore's Two Cross Keys Villages. p. 112.
  4. ↑ Ann Forsyth. Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia. p. 122.
  5. ↑ Hope Laundauer (9 February 1975). "Quadrupled Rouse Company Cuts Back". The Baltimore Sun.
  6. ↑ Smith, Mark R. (1 November 2011). "Q&A With Retired Architect/Doctoral Student Ted Mariani". The Business Monthly.
  7. ↑ John Docker. Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History. p. 99.
  8. ↑ Joseph Rocco Mitchell, David L. Stebenne. A New City Upon a Hill. p. 128.


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