# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-bauer-wurster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:36:15.225Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-bauer-wurster"
name: "Catherine Bauer Wurster"
slug: "catherine-bauer-wurster"
description: "Catherine Krouse Bauer Wurster  was an American public housing advocate and educator of city planners and urban planners. A leading member of the \"housers,\" a group of planners who advocated affordable housing for low-income families, she dramatically changed social housing practice and law in the United States. Wurster's influential book Modern Housing was published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1934 and is regarded as a classic in the field."
tagline: "American architect"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katherine_Bauer_1926_page_63_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1905-05-11"
deathDate: "1964-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.41
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.547337333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Catherine Bauer Wurster"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump