Julius Pitzman

Julius Pitzman (1837–1923) was a Prussian-born American surveyor and city planner best known for his development of the private, gated neighborhoods in St. Louis, Missouri[1] from 1867 through about 1914.

Badly injured in the war, afterward Pitzman served as St. Louis County Surveyor.

[2] The idea allowed residential landowners to control real estate speculation and maintain property standards, in an era before the protections of zoning.

Pitzman's use of curvilinear streets to maximize privacy and vary views was a novelty in that era.

The National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Parkview Historic District in University City, Missouri states that Pitzman "designed over 47 private streets in the St. Louis area in the fifty years following 1867 and (his) work was an important influence on other city planners and developers."