Fundamental History Flashcards

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1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago

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Commemorated the 400th anniversary of the discovery of new world Jump started the urban planning profession Ran for six months and attracted almost half of the population living in the U.S.

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1916 New York Zoning Resolution

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Uses in zoning districts were cumulative.

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Andres Duany

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Advocate for new urbanism or neotraditional design

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Birth of a Nation

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  1. One of the very first widespread popular films in U.S. Portrayed KKK as heroic.
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Buffalo Commons

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Proposal that involves tearing down the farm fences in the Great Plains and replanting native grass and restore the buffalo

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Carrying Out the City Plan

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1914, Flavel Shurtleff First major textbook on city planning.

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