History Flashcards
Law of the Indies
established planning principals in spanish pueblos, central town
Philadelphia Plan (1682)
grids and parks
william penn
divide city into 4 quadrants
Annapolis Plan (1695)
francis nicholson laid out plan for annapolis
modified baroque plan, two main circles with radial streets
Savannah Plan 1733
wart park system
James oglethorpe
basic design was a art, four large residential blocks and central square
Ordinance of 1785
metes and bounds to public land survey system
1791 plan for washington
pierre lefnfant
based on grids and radials
used by 1902 mcmillan commission
who helped Pierre L’Enfant with plan for Washington dc
Benjamin Banneker and Andrew Ellicott
what year was transcontinental railroad
1849 to 1869
morrill act
set up A&M schools around the country
what was the first company town
pullman illinois 1880
who wrote how the other half lives
Jacob Riis
when was the world columbian exposition
1893
associated with daniel burnham (city beautiful movement), also known as white city since all buildings were painted white
chicago
burnham was helped by olmstead
tomorrow: a peaceful path to real reform who wrote and what cities
ebenezer howard
letchworth and welwyn
first use in US was forest hill gardens in NY
idealized city
what was idealized garden city by ebenezer howard
32 000 people, 6000 acres
what are some cities influenced by garden city movement
sunnyside gardens
radburn, nj
greenbelt towns
greenbelt, maryland
greenhils, ohio
greendale, wisconsin
towns from new town movement
reston, virginia
columbia, maryland
“New” New york tenement houselaw
eliminated dumbell design, had to be toilet in each unit, needed window
1901
1st national conference in city planning
1909
beginning of APA
1909 plan of Chicago (who)
Burnham and bennet
standard state zoning enabling act, when and what
1922
laid out model of how to do zoning, model ordinance that states could adapt at state level
concentric zone theory (who)
burgess
based on Chicago
state city planning enabling act, when and what
1928
laid out details of how to do a model ordinance for suburbs
Radburn, NJ: when, who and based on what
1929, Stein and Wright, Garden City Theory
Neighborhood Unit Concept: who, what book/survey
Clarence Perry
1929
regional survey of NY and its environs
central place theory: who, what, when
1933, christaller, settlements functions as central places providing services to surrounding areas
settlements are hierarchal
Sector Theory: who, when, what
1939, homer Hoyt, transit corridors, different types of uses stay on same transportation corridors
TVA: what
Multiple Nuclei Model
Harris and Ullman
when was parks movement in US
1850s
Jane Addams
Chicago’s Hull House, providing opportunities for working class immigrants, women and children
superblock
area of urban land bounded by arterial roads
Clarence Perry argued for super blocks for neighborhood unit plan
first official and permanent local planning board, 1907
hartford
first state enabling legislation permitting cities to plan (1909)
Wisconsin
first comprehensive zoning ordinance (1916)
NYC
Bassett
ORDINANCE NOT PLAN
Land use associates with what movement
city efficient movement in 1920s
1st standard state zoning enabling act year
1924
what city adopted first comprehensive plan and who led it
Cincinnati, led by Alfred bettman in 1925
bettman helped win case in Euclid v ambler, was first president of ASPO
TVA, what is it
Tennessee Valley Authority created in congress in 1933
part of Roosevelts New Deal to provide navigation flood control, electricity etc to Tennessee valley
TVA actions were racist, displaced and relocated poor
TVA officials excluded black workers from city (Norris, Tennessee for example), created sundown town
Section 701 of the housing act in 1954
subsidized thousands of comprehensive plans for small cities less than 25,000
city functional movement
1940s, administrationn ww2
who wrote cities in evolution in 1915
patrick geddes
father of modern planning
who wrote “Modern Housing” in 1934
Catherine Bauer Wurster
Who wrote image of the city
Kevin Lynch
who wrote the city in history
Lewis Mumford
who wrote “the Urban General Plan”
T J Kent
Who wrote the power broker in 1974
Robert Caro
Who wrote social life of small urban places 1980
William Whyte
who wrote edge city in 1991
Joel Garreau
Who wrote rural by design in 1994
Randall Arendt
what is the social life of small urban places (book) by william H whyte
began mini revolution and sociable urban design
examined moral dimensions of planning, responsibility to create healthy public places
based on people watching
triangulation, ability of a public space to bring people togetehr
people always move chairs before sitting
concerned with access to food and public space
father of american zoning
edward bassett
NYC zoning code guy
father o city planning
burnham
father of ecological planning
mchardg
father of modern housing code
Lawrence veiller
“new” new york housing tenement code
father of advocacy planning
paul davidoff
who wrote rules for radicals
saul alinsky
who did arcology
paolo soleri
who did flordas growth management plan
john degrove
first national park
Yellowstone, 1872
first wildlife refuge
pelican island Florida 1903first
first city subway
Boston in 1897
first us transcontinental highway
Lincoln highway 1913
first city zoning ordinance
new york in 1916 (bassett)
first city comprehensive plan
Cincinnati in 1925 (Bennet)
first limited access highway
bronx river parkway (1926)
first skyscraper
Chicago 1884
first planning commission
Hartford Connecticut 1907
first historic preservation commission
Vieux Carre, New Orleans (1921/1925)
first historic preservation ordinance
Charleston 1931
