Crane, Jacob L. (Jacob Leslie), 1892-1988

Jacob Leslie Crane, Jr., also known as Jacob L. Crane, was born on September 14, 1892 in Benzonia, Michigan. During his career as an engineer, Jacob L. Crane was the planning consultant for the Great Salt Lake Diking Project in Utah. In 1933, he prepared a report for the Research Corporation in New York, New York to determine the feasibility of the project. Later in life, Jacob L. Crane wrote Urban Planning-Illusion and Reality: A New Philosophy for Planned City Building, published in 1973. On the front of the book he was coined as the "Grandfather" of the worldwide urban planning movement.

From the guide to the Report on the Great Salt Lake Diking Project, 1933, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)