Firsts

Question 1

First National Planning Conference

Answer 1

1909, D.C.

Question 2

AIP Formed

Answer 2

1917, Olmstead as President

Question 3

ASPO Formed

Answer 3

1934

Question 4

APA Formed

Answer 4

1978

Question 5

AICP Created

Answer 5

1999

Question 6

First Skyscraper

Answer 6

1884, Chicago

Question 7

First Subway

Answer 7

1890, Boston

Question 8

First Planning Commission

Answer 8

1907, Hartford, CT

Question 9

First Planning Course

Answer 9

1909, Harvard

Question 10

First Comprehensive Plan

Answer 10

1909, Plan of Chicago

Question 11

First Civic Center Plan

Answer 11

1903, Cleveland

Question 12

First Comp Plan Approved by City Council

Answer 12

1925, Cincinnati

Question 13

First Zoning Code

Answer 13

1916, NYC

Question 14

First Formal Planning Instruction (below college)

Answer 14

1912, Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago (8th grade)

Question 15

First Textbook

Answer 15

1914, Carrying out the City Plan by Flavel Shurtleff

Question 16

First AIP Exam

Answer 16

1977

Question 17

First Issue of JAPA

Answer 17

1925, published by ACPI

Question 18

ACIP Renamed

Answer 18

AIP in 1939

Question 19

First Zoning Restrictions

Answer 19

1867, San Francisco

Question 20

First City Beautiful principles applied

Answer 20

1906, San Francisco

Question 21

First city to use land use zoning

Answer 21

1909, Los Angeles

Question 22

First full-time planner

Answer 22

1914, Newark, NJ - Harland Bartholomew

Question 23

First Regional Planning Commission

Answer 23

1922, LA County

Question 24

First federally-supported public housing

Answer 24

1934, Cleveland - first occupied in Atlanta though

Question 25

First state to implement statewide zoning

Answer 25

1961, Hawaii

Question 26

First Tenement

Answer 26

1855, NYC

Question 27

First Council of Governments

Answer 27

1954, Detroit