History Flashcards
Where did comprehensive planning start?
Chicago (though that plan was not built)
First city subway
Boston, 1897
WIlliam Penn came up with what city design?
Philadelphia, rectangular grid with streets crossing each other at a central square – (grids and parks)
Annapolic plan
Radialcentric
James Olgethorpe came up with what city design?
Savannah, ward park system.
Oridnance of 1785
Provided for the rectangular land survey of the west in 36 sq mile grids. SIngle largest act of national planning in our history. Each square #16 would be a school.
Design for Capitol in DC
Created by L’Enfant in 1791. Design completed in 1902 by McMillon
When did the Erie Canal open?
- Greatly reduced shipping costs to the west, opened up Ohio and Midwest to more trade
Homestead Act
- Permitted new western settlers to claim 160 acres of public land if they lived there 5 years.
Morrill Act
- Proceeds for sale of public lands go to build agtilculture colleges
Riverside, IL
- Designing by Olmstead and Vaux as the first suburb west of Chicago
“Old” New York Tenement Law
1879 - required window openings and a bathroom per floor. Start of the dumbell tenements.
Pullman, IL
- Industrial town built for Pullman’s employees
Book: How the Other Half Lives
- by Jacob Riis, inspired social reform
What book inspired social reform and Hull House?
How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis
World Colombian Exposition
- Designed by Daniel Burnham, started the City Beautiful Movement
Book: Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Reform
- by Ebenezer Howard
Letchworth and Welwyn
Garden cities built in England by Ebenezer Howard
“New” New York Tenement Law
- Outlawed dumbell tenements
1st National Conference on Planning
- In DC, represented transition to planning by professionals
1909 Plan for Chicago
Designing by Burnham and Bennett, did not get built
Radiant City
- Le Courbousier’s plan for tall towers in parks
Standard State Zone Enabling Act
1922
Concentric Zone Theory
- by Ernest Burgess. Central biz, mixed use, working class res, middle class suburb, outermost for the rich
State City Planning Enabling Act
1928
Plan for Radburn, NJ
- by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright, based on Garden City. Included alleys behind the homes and communal gardens
Concept of Neighborhood Unit
- by Clarence Perry
Broadacre City
- Frank Lloyd Wright. Concept of everyone traveling by car and each getting an acre of land.
Central Place Theory
- by Walter Chirsaller. Settlements function as a place for services, therefore the bigger the settlement, the fewer there are in total.
City Humane Movement
Roosevelt’s pre-war administraion, focus on social and economic issues
Resettlement Administration
Helped move farmers to better lands after the Depression and moved people to New Towns, influenced by Garden Cities
Famous Greenbelt Towns
Greenbelt, MD, Greenhills, OH, Greendale, WI