Firsts in Planning

Question 1

First case to uphold zoning

Answer 1

Euclid

Question 2

First federal law prohibiting discrimination

Answer 2

Fair Housing Act (Civil Rights Act 1968)

Question 3

First comprehensive plan

Answer 3

Cincinnati, 1925

Question 4

First comprehensive Zoning Code

Answer 4

New York City, 1916

Question 5

First urban growth boundary

Answer 5

Lexington, KY

Question 6

First historic preservation case

Answer 6

US v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co.

Question 7

First historic preservation ordinance

Answer 7

Charleston, SC 1931

Question 8

First historic preservation commission

Answer 8

New Orleans, Vieux Carre, 1921

Question 9

First state to implement zoning

Answer 9

Hawaii

Question 10

First city to apply city beautiful

Answer 10

San Francisco

Question 11

First civic center plan

Answer 11

Cleveland (1903)

Question 12

First formal instruction in city planning (book)

Answer 12

Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago - 1912 (Moody)

Question 13

First example of multi-state planning for power & flood control

Answer 13

TVA

Question 14

First time treating water as environmental issue, not just health

Answer 14

Water Quality Act of 1965

Question 15

First National Park

Answer 15

Yellowstone, before national parks even existed in 1872. NPS started in 1916.

Question 16

First council of Governments

Answer 16

Detroit, 1954

Question 17

First Earth Day

Answer 17

April 22, 1970

Question 18

First Regional Planning Commission

Answer 18

LA, 1922

Question 19

First land use zoning restriction on noxious uses

Answer 19

San Francisco, 1867

Question 20

First US City with a subway

Answer 20

Boston, 1897

Question 21

First off-street parking regulations

Answer 21

Columbus, 1923

Question 22

First planning Code of Ethics

Answer 22

1971, AIP

Question 23

First planning test

Answer 23

1977, AIP

Question 24

First regional plan

Answer 24

Burnham’s Plan for Chicago, 1909

Question 25

First takings ruling

Answer 25

Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon; U.S. Supreme Court (1922) The Court found that if a regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking

Question 26

First City Planning and Congestion conference

Answer 26

1909, in DC (Marsh)

Question 27

First major textbook on city planning

Answer 27

Flavel Shurtleff wrote Carrying Out the City Plan, 1914

Question 28

First town planning board

Answer 28

Hartford, Connecticut, 1907

Question 29

First full-time employee hired for a city planning commission

Answer 29

Harland Bartholomew

Question 30

First example of tenement housing

Answer 30

1855

Question 31

First federally-supported public housing program

Answer 31

Public Works Administration (PWA), 1934

Question 32

First comprehensive housing legislation passed in the U.S.

Answer 32

Housing Act of 1949

Question 33

First(ish) form based code application

Answer 33

Seaside, FL