"[Urban planning is] an ideal profession for a woman because it builds on her innate capacity for providing an orderly and aesthetic environment for herself, her family and the community in which she lives."
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Erica Mann
1917 – 2007
Erica Mann (born Erika Schoenbaum, 1917 – 2007) was a Vienna-born architect and town planner. She went to school in Bucharest, Romania, and studied architecture at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Mann and her husband Igor Mann were secular Jews, and fled Romania during the Second World War. They lived in a refugee camp in what was then Northern Rhodesia. In 1942, Mann settled in Kenya. She went on to contribute to the 1948 master plans for Nairobi, Mombasa, and other towns and cities in Kenya
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