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| Born | Grady Edward Clay, Jr November 5, 1916 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | March 17, 2013 (aged 96) Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
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Grady Edward Clay Jr (November 5, 1916 – March 17, 2013) was an American journalist and urbanist specializing in landscape architecture and urban planning.
In 1962, the American Institute of Architects said of Clay: "The editor of Landscape Architecture is becoming one of the best known and most widely listened to writers and speakers on the problems of land and the city today".[1]
In his 1974 book Close-Up: How to Read the American City, Clay offered a way to "read" modern American cities, saying “A city is not as we perceive it to be by vision alone, but by insight, memory, movement, emotion and language. A city is also what we call it and becomes as we describe it".[2]
- ^ Clay, Grady (August 1962). "Rx Surveillance and Review" (PDF). A.I.A. Journal. Washington, D.C.: The American Institute of Architects. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
- ^ "Noted Journalist, Urbanist Grady Clay Dead at 96". Retrieved August 9, 2020.