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In Memoriam – 2002 Charles Causier, AICP Click here to read tributes from colleagues and friends. Mr. Causier worked for the Milwaukee office of HNTB, a national firm involved in planning, engineering, and architecture. According to an obituary in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "In 1981, when Wauwatosa's historic Village area was in decline, Mr. Causier began helping the Village Improvement District and its planning committee on successful revitalization efforts. That led to his role with the Wauwatosa Village Task Force, in which he helped promote Tosa Fest and the village. He began working with the Joint Committee of the Preparation of the Comprehensive City Plan. He had served with the Wauwatosa City Plan Commission since 1982." Mr. Causier earlier worked with the Historic Preservation Commission and the Wauwatosa Strategic Planning Committee. He was a founder of the Lowell Damon Woods Neighborhood Association, created in 1995. At the April 2002 APA National Planning Conference in Chicago, buttons were distributed bearing Causier's face — topped with a crown — declaring "Charlie for King." He was a member of AICP and belonged to the Private Practice and Urban Design and Preservation divisions. He is survived by his wife, Kathy; daughters Elizabeth and Catherine, and a son, Daniel; his mother, Dorothy; and other relatives.
"He was a visionary,'' Dr. Mason Andrews, a former Norfolk mayor, told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, which noted that Cox also had his critics, "chief among them the late Judge Joseph A. Jordan Jr., the city's first black City Council member since Reconstruction, who charged that Cox's program 'helped create ghettos.''' According to the newspaper: "Cox was executive director of the authority in an era when redevelopment usually meant bulldozing entire blighted neighborhoods. His first big project was the virtual elimination of Atlantic City, an area where many lived without running water in conditions that made a federal housing official physically sick during a tour before World War II." Cox left Norfolk in 1969 to become assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, leaving that post in 1970 to return to a career in the private sector in Hampton Roads, Virginia. A native of Norfolk, Cox grew up in Larchmont. While attending college he worked in the 1930s as a special assistant at the U.S. Housing Authority. That experience brought him home to Norfolk, where he joined the newly created housing authority's staff in 1940 and took over the agency the following year. In 1948, he became head of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, a post that allowed him to help shape the federal Housing Act of 1949, a document that called for "a decent home and suitable living environment for every American family.''
During his career in Florida, Mr. Glatting also served as director of planning for Brevard County, executive director for East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, and senior vice president for Environmental Planning Group, Inc. Mr. Glatting held a Master's of City Planning degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. He was active in many planning and community organizations, and was a member of APA and its International, Resort and Tourism, and Urban Design and Preservation Divisions. He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Sonny; three children; five grandchildren; and other relatives.
Mr. Thompson specialized in designing gathering places such as Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Baltimore's Harborplace, and New York City's South Street Seaport, as well as St. Paul's Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. In 1992 he was awarded the highest honor in American architecture, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. Benjamin Thompson and Associates, his own firm, was founded in Cambridge in 1966. He was also the director of Harvard University's School of Architecture from 1963-67. He was a 1941 graduate of the Yale University BFA program and served in the U.S. Navy from 1942-44. Survivors include his wife, Jane; three sons; two daughters; two stepchildren; and 10 grandchildren.
Obituaries in local papers reported that Warren helped organize a plan to make applying for health and building permits easier by offering them at one location, and that he also began a program to cross-train building inspectors to reduce the number of trips needed to inspect each construction site. He was a member of APA and a veteran of the U.S. Army. Mr. Warren is survived by his wife, Judy Warren, and their sons, Matthew and Joseph.
Mr. Wiant, who lived in Reston, Virginia, served in the U.S. Army and in the National Guard, leaving military service as a major in 1990. After his discharge, he worked as a civilian planner with the Corps of Engineers. He was a member of APA's Federal Planning Division and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. John McDermon, chair of the Federal Planning Division, said that Mr. Wiant's monthly e-zine Visions kept hundreds of subscribers informed about all things affecting Army Real Property & Master Planning. Survivors include his wife, Myrna; three children; four stepchildren; his stepmother; and a grandson.
A resident of Tampa, Florida, Mr. Withers worked in private practice as an urban planner and real estate consultant. He was a past member of the Hillsborough County Planning Commission, and was also a member of the Counselors of Real Estate and a licensed real estate appraiser. He held a master's degree in urban planning from Florida State University. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Veronica Withers; a son; two grandchildren; and other family members.
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