Karl Linn
Karl Linn (1923-2005) was a landscape architect, child psychologist, and university professor. He pioneered community gardening movements across the U.S., and is beloved for his vision and leadership in the field of grassroots community building.
After practicing psychology in New York, he taught landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Through the 1960s, Linn started community design centers in ten American cities while teaching at MIT, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and other universities. Forty-five years of his legacy in community design is recorded in Building Commons and Community (New Village Press, 2007).
Linn grew up in rural Germany, Palestine, and Switzerland before moving to New York. Committed to a kinder, more compassionate world, he co-founded Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility in 1981, and in 1989, he and Carl C. Anthony co-founded Urban Habitat. Linn spent his last years in the San Francisco Bay Area.