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Law of the Indies

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established planning principals in spanish pueblos, central town

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Philadelphia Plan (1682)

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grids and parks

william penn

divide city into 4 quadrants

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Annapolis Plan (1695)

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francis nicholson laid out plan for annapolis

modified baroque plan, two main circles with radial streets

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Savannah Plan 1733

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wart park system

James oglethorpe

basic design was a art, four large residential blocks and central square

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Ordinance of 1785

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metes and bounds to public land survey system

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1791 plan for washington

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pierre lefnfant

based on grids and radials
used by 1902 mcmillan commission

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who helped Pierre L’Enfant with plan for Washington dc

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Benjamin Banneker and Andrew Ellicott

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what year was transcontinental railroad

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1849 to 1869

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morrill act

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set up A&M schools around the country

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what was the first company town

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pullman illinois 1880

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who wrote how the other half lives

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Jacob Riis

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when was the world columbian exposition

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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

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tomorrow: a peaceful path to real reform who wrote and what cities

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ebenezer howard

letchworth and welwyn

first use in US was forest hill gardens in NY

idealized city

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what was idealized garden city by ebenezer howard

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32 000 people, 6000 acres

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what are some cities influenced by garden city movement

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sunnyside gardens

radburn, nj

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greenbelt towns

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greenbelt, maryland
greenhils, ohio
greendale, wisconsin

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towns from new town movement

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reston, virginia
columbia, maryland

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“New” New york tenement houselaw

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eliminated dumbell design, had to be toilet in each unit, needed window
1901

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1st national conference in city planning

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1909

beginning of APA

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1909 plan of Chicago (who)

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Burnham and bennet

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standard state zoning enabling act, when and what

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1922

laid out model of how to do zoning, model ordinance that states could adapt at state level

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concentric zone theory (who)

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burgess

based on Chicago

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state city planning enabling act, when and what

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1928

laid out details of how to do a model ordinance for suburbs

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Radburn, NJ: when, who and based on what
1929, Stein and Wright, Garden City Theory
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Neighborhood Unit Concept: who, what book/survey
Clarence Perry 1929 regional survey of NY and its environs
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central place theory: who, what, when
1933, christaller, settlements functions as central places providing services to surrounding areas settlements are hierarchal
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Sector Theory: who, when, what
1939, homer Hoyt, transit corridors, different types of uses stay on same transportation corridors
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TVA: what
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Multiple Nuclei Model
Harris and Ullman
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when was parks movement in US
1850s
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Jane Addams
Chicago's Hull House, providing opportunities for working class immigrants, women and children
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superblock
area of urban land bounded by arterial roads Clarence Perry argued for super blocks for neighborhood unit plan
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first official and permanent local planning board, 1907
hartford
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first state enabling legislation permitting cities to plan (1909)
Wisconsin
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first comprehensive zoning ordinance (1916)
NYC Bassett ORDINANCE NOT PLAN
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Land use associates with what movement
city efficient movement in 1920s
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1st standard state zoning enabling act year
1924
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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
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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
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Section 701 of the housing act in 1954
subsidized thousands of comprehensive plans for small cities less than 25,000
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city functional movement
1940s, administrationn ww2
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who wrote cities in evolution in 1915
patrick geddes father of modern planning
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who wrote "Modern Housing" in 1934
Catherine Bauer Wurster
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Who wrote image of the city
Kevin Lynch
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who wrote the city in history
Lewis Mumford
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who wrote "the Urban General Plan"
T J Kent
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Who wrote the power broker in 1974
Robert Caro
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Who wrote social life of small urban places 1980
William Whyte
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who wrote edge city in 1991
Joel Garreau
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Who wrote rural by design in 1994
Randall Arendt
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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
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father of american zoning
edward bassett NYC zoning code guy
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father o city planning
burnham
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father of ecological planning
mchardg
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father of modern housing code
Lawrence veiller "new" new york housing tenement code
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father of advocacy planning
paul davidoff
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who wrote rules for radicals
saul alinsky
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who did arcology
paolo soleri
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who did flordas growth management plan
john degrove
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first national park
Yellowstone, 1872
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first wildlife refuge
pelican island Florida 1903first
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first city subway
Boston in 1897
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first us transcontinental highway
Lincoln highway 1913
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first city zoning ordinance
new york in 1916 (bassett)
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first city comprehensive plan
Cincinnati in 1925 (Bennet)
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first limited access highway
bronx river parkway (1926)
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first skyscraper
Chicago 1884
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first planning commission
Hartford Connecticut 1907
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first historic preservation commission
Vieux Carre, New Orleans (1921/1925)
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first historic preservation ordinance
Charleston 1931
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