History of the Planning Profession:

When was the first national planning conference?

History of the Planning Profession:

When and where was the first city planning course taught?

History of the Planning Profession:

What was Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago, who was the author, and when was it published?

Author: Walter Moody
Published: 1912

It was adopted as an 8th grade textbook by the Chicago Board of Education and was the first known formal instruction in city planning below the college level.

History of the Planning Profession:

When ws the American City Planning Institute founded and who was the first president?

Founded: 1917

First President: Frederic Law Olmstead.

Became the American Institute of Planners (AIP) in 1939.  The AIP was the forerunner of the AICP.

History of the Planning Profession:

When was the first issue of City Planning magazine published?

History of the Planning Profession:

When was the American Society of Planning Officials founded?

History of the Planning Profession:

When did the AIP adopt a code of ethics for professional planners?

History of the Planning Profession:

When was the first exam for AIP memberhip administered?

History of the Planning Profession:

When did the American Planning Association form, and which two organizations merged to create it?

1978

The AIP (American Institute of Planners) and the ASPO (American Society of Planning Officials).

History of the Planning Profession:

When was teh first issue of The Journal of Planning Education and Research published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning?

City Planning Firsts:

When and where was the first land use zoning restriction on the location of obnoxious uses passed?

City Planning Firsts:

When and where was the first local civic center plan created?

City Planning Firsts:

What was the first major American city to apply the City Beautiful principles?

City Planning Firsts:

When was the first metropolitan regional plan created, and by whom?

City Planning Firsts:

Which state was the first to pass enabling legislation, and when?

City Planning Firsts:

Which city was the first to use land use zoning to guide development, and when?

City Planning Firsts:

When and where was the first full-time employee for a city planning commission hired?

City Planning Firsts:

When and where was the first comprehensive zoning code adopted?

City Planning Firsts:

When and where was the first regional planning commission formed?

City Planning Firsts:

When was the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act issued?

City Planning Firsts:

Which was the first major US city to adopt a comprehensive plan, and when?

City Planning Firsts:

When was the Standard City Planning Enabling Act issued?

City Planning Firsts:

When was the first US National Planning Board created?

1933

Was later renamed the National Resouces Planning Board, then abolished in 1943.

City Planning Firsts:

When and where was the first federally supported public housing constructed?

City Planning Firsts:

Which was the first state to introduce statewide zoning, and when?

Key Planning Books- Give Author, date of publication and significance:

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis

1890

Resulted in housing reform in NYC.

Key Planning Books- Give Author, date of publication and significance:

Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

Ebenezer howard

1898

Initiated the Garden City movement.

Key Planning Books- Give Author, date of publication and significance:

Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago

Walter Moody

1912

8th grade textbook in Chicago- first non-collegiate planning class.

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Carrying Out the City Plan

Flavel Shurtleff

1914

First major textbook on city planning.

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Cities in Evolution

Patrick Geddes

1915

Centers on regional planning.

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Local Planning Administration

Ladislas Segoe

1941

First book in the Green Book Series

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Urban Land Use Planning

F. Stuart Chapin

1957

Common textbook on planning.

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Image of the City

Kevin Lynch

1960

Defines basic concepts within the city, such as edges and nodes.

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The Death and LIfe of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

1961

Offered a critical look at planners and planning, with special emphesis on the errors of urban renewal.

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Silent Spring

Rachel Carlson

1962

Focused on the negative impacts of pesticieds on the environment, triggering the start of the environmental movement.

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With Heritage So Rich

Alfred Reins

1966

A seminal book on historic preservation.

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Design With Nature

Ian McHarg

1969

Focuses on conservation design.

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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

William Whyte

1980

Promotes the use of environmental psychology in urban design.

Key Planning Figures- Noteable Achievements and Dates:

Charles Abrams

Key Planning Figures- Noteable Achievements and Dates:

Thomas Adams

Important planner in the Garden City movement.

Secretary of the Garden City Association and first manager of Letchworth.

Developed a number of garden suburbs in England and taught planning at MIT and Harvard.

Key Planning Figures- Noteable Achievements and Dates:

Saul Alinsky

Advocate of community organizing.

He organized Chicago's poor in the late 1930s and 1940s. 

Published Reveille for Radicals in 1946, which encouraged the poor to become involved in American democracy.

Later published Rules for Radicals, which provided 13 rules for community organizing.

Key Planning Figures- Noteable Achievements and Dates:

Sherry Arnstein

Wrote A Ladder of Citizen Participation for the Journal of American Planning Association, in 1969.

The article described the levels of involvement by citizens depending on teh form of participation utelized.

Key Planning Figures- Noteable Achievements and Dates:

Rachel Carson

Key Planning Figures- Noteable Achievements and Dates:

Robert Moses

Transformed New York's public works from the 1930s-1950s.

Expanded the state's park system and built numerous parkways.  Built parks, playgrounds, highways, bridges, tunnels and public housing.

Key Planning Figures- Noteable Achievements and Dates:

Rexford Tugwell

Served as head of teh Resettlement Administration.

Worked on the greenbelt cities program, which sought construction of new, self-sufficient cities.

Closely involved in the development of Arthurdale, WV.

Later served on the NYC Planning Commission and was the governer of Puerto Rico.

Key Planning Figures- Noteable Achievements and Dates:

Sir Raymond Unwin

Key Planning Figures- Noteable Achievements and Dates:

Catherine Bauer Wurster

Founder of American housing policy.

Worked to reform policy related to housing and urban planning. Served as executive secreatry of the Regional Planning Association of America.

Influential in the passage of the housing act of 1937.

Major Planning Movements:

City Beautiful Movement

Movement to address issues with poverty, crime and blight through expression of moral and civic virtues.

Daniel Burnham was a leader in promoting the movement.

Leaders believed that creating a beautiful city would inspire residents to lead virtuous lives.

one result was the creation of Beaux-Arts civic centers.  The first model civic center was the White City, created by Daniel Burnham in Chicago for the World's Colombian Exposition in 1893. 

Major Planning Movements:

Garden City Movement

Result of Ebenezer Howard's book To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. It explained the principles of a Garden City.

It is self contained, with an ideal population of 32,000 and a land area of 6,000 acres.  It would house 30,000 people on 1,000 acres, with the remaining land and population in farming areas.

It was intended to bring about social and economic reform. Land ownership would be held by a corporation.

The first of 2 garden cities constructed was Letchworth, in 1903.  Neither was truley self contained, and both becamse residential suburbs.

1927- First Garden City in the US- Radburn, NJ.

New Towns using Garden Cities concepts- Greendale, WI, Greenhills, OH, and Greenbelt, MD.

History of Land Settlement:

What ws the Land Ordinance of 1785?

History of Land Settlement:

What was the Homestead Act?

Passed in 1862.

Provided 160 acres of land to settlers for $18 and a guarantee of 5 years of residence.

Resulted in the settlement of 270 million acres- 10% of the land area of the U.S.

History of Land Settlement:

Morrill Act

History of Land Settlement:

General land Law Revision Act

History of Land Settlement:

Forest Management Act

History of Land Settlement:

US Reclamation Act

History of Land Settlement:

Who appointed a Public Lands Commission to propose rules for land development and management, and when?

History of Land Settlement:

Antiquities Act

History of Land Settlement:

Resettlement Administration

History of Land Settlement:

Serviceman's Readjustment Act (aka GI Bill)

History of Land Settlement:

Guaranteed home loans to veterans.  Resulted in the rapid development of suburbs.

History of Comprehensive Planning:

The McMillan Plan of 1901

History of Comprehensive Planning:

The Chicago Plan of 1909

Developed by Daniel Burnham.

It was the first regional plan.

Focused on incorporating ideas from City Beautiful. Also focused on riverfront development and civic center spaces.

History of Comprehensive Planning:

The Cincinnati Plan

1925, the first Comprehensive Plan.

Developed under Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe.

Focused on infrastructure projects and called for planning to be controlled by a citizen city planning commission.

History of Comprehensive Planning:

Regional Plan for New York and Environs

History of Comprehensive Planning:

The Great Depression

Few comprehensive plans were developed during it.

Major exception- Resettlement Administration was making them for Greenbelt towns.

Comprehensive plans made a comback amid the rapid development of the suburbs after WWII.

History of Comprehensive Planning:

US Housing Act of 1954

Largest imputus for comprehensive planning.

Required cities to develop comprehensive plans and provided funding for plans under Section 701. 

Did lead to the problem of the creation of plans for the purpose of acquiring federal funds, rather than to legitimately plan communities.

History of Comprehensive Planning:

Trends in Comprehensive Plans- 1970s-1980s

History of Comprehensive Planning:

1970s- State comprehensive planning

History of Comprehensive Planning:

Maryland, 1997