1 Fundamental: History of Planning Flashcards
Who was the “father” of urban planning plan of city layouts (i.e. grid plan)?
Hippodamus of Miletus
498 to 408 BC
Who was a critic of Hippodamus’ idea of straight streets and a gridded
layout?
Aristotle
A haphazardly planned urban area, the latter is better for deterring invaders.
Which early Roman architecture book design with regular grid composed
of four quadrants bisected by a cross-axis ?
Vitruvius, The Ten
Books of Architecture
Augustan period of the
Roman Empire (31 B.C.
to A.D. 14)
Who brought the centralized plaza with regular grid layout & cross-axis based on Vitruvian model in the Americas?
Law of the Indies
Philip II, late 16th century.
Who, what, and when of the Philadelphia plan?
William Penn
Thomas Holme
1682
Grid system &
neighborhood parks
Who, what, and when of the Annapolis plan?
Francis Nicholson
1695
Radio centric
Who, what, and when of the Savannah plan?
Oglethorpe
1733
Ward park system
Who, what, and when of the
Washington plan?
Pierre L’Enfant
1790
Grand, whole city plan
Who, what, and when of the Central Park plan?
F L Olmsted Sr
1856
First major purchase of
parkland
Who, what, when of the Riverside plan?
FL Olmsted Sr
Calvert Vaux
1869
Model curved street
“suburb”
Who, what, when of the Pullman, IL model industrial town plan?
George Pullman
1880
Model industrial town
When did NYC: “New Law” regulates tenement housing?
1901
When was the first civic center in Cleveland?
1903 Daniel Burnham, John Carrere, and Arnold Brunner
When and where was first official & permanent local planning board?
1907 Harford Connecticut
When and who was the first City Planner?
1907
Harland Bartholomew
When and where was the first national planning conference?
The first national planning conference was held at the National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief in Washington, D.C in 1909. In the same year, the first city planning course was taught in Harvard’s Landscape Architecture Department.
When and what did Walter Moody publish?
Walter Moody published Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago in 1912, adopted as an eighth-grade textbook by the Chicago Board of Education. This is the first known formal instruction in city planning below the college level.
When and what did Flavel Shurtleff publish?
In 1914, Flavel Shurtleff wrote Carrying Out the City Plan, the first major textbook on city planning.
When did New York City adopted the first comprehensive zoning code?
1916
Edward Basset
Los Angeles County formed the first regional planning commission.
1916
When was the ACPI founded and who was the founder?
In 1917, the American City Planning Institute of Planners (ACPI) was founded. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., was ACIP’s first president. The organization was renamed to the American Institute of Planners (AIP) in 1939. The AIP was the forerunner of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).
Which city was the first major U.S. city to adopt a comprehensive plan?
1925 Cincinnati produced by Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe.
When was the first issue of City Planning released?
In 1925, the American City Planning Institute and the National Conference on City Planning published the first issue of City Planning, the predecessor to the current Journal of the American Planning Association.
When did the U.S. Department of Commerce, under Secretary Herbert Hoover, released the Standard City Planning Enabling Act?
1928
When was the ASPO founded?
In 1934, the American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) was founded. Alred Bettman
When did the AIP adopted a code of ethics?
In 1971, AIP adopted a Code of Ethics for professional planners.
When was the first AIP exam administered
In 1977, the first exam for AIP membership was administered.
When did the AIP and ASPO merged?
In 1978, the American Planning Association was created through a merger of AIP and ASPO.
When did the first issue of The Journal of Planning Education and Research?
In 1981, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning published the first issue of The Journal of Planning Education and Research.
