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Code of Ethics

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Adopted in 1977 by AIP

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Standard State Zoning Enabling Act

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1924, Herbert Hoover

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Standard City Planning Enabling Act

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1928, Herbert Hoover

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How the Other Half Lives

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Jacob Riis - housing reform in NYC

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Tomorrow: A Path to Peaceful Reform

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Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities Movement

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Wecker’s Manual of the Plan fo Chicago

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Walter Moody - textbook for 8th graders

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Carrying Out the City Plan

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Flavel Shurtleff - first major textbook

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Cities in Evolution

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Patrick Geddes - regional planning

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Planning in a Modern City

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Nelson Lewis - many city issues were engineering problems

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Local Planning Administration

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Ladislas Segoe - published by international city/county management association

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Urban Land Use Planning

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F. Stuart Chapin, common text book

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Image of the City

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Kevin Lynch, defines basic concepts such as edges and nodes

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Jane Jacobs - mistakes of urban renewal, eyes on the street

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Silent Spring

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Rachel Carson - effects of pesticides on environment

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Urban General Plan

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TJ Kent - social and economic goals of planning

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With Heritage So Rich

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Albert Reins - historic preservation

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Design with Nature

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Ian McHarg - conservation design, GIS overlays

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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

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William Whyte - sociology and environmental psychology in design

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City Beautiful

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[late 18-early 1900’s] Burnham; beautiful city to inspire residents to lead virtuous lives

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Garden City

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[1889] Ebenezer Howard; self-contained 32,000 population, 6,000 acres, fairly dense (30,000 in 1,000 acres). Ex. Letchworth, Sunnyside Gardens

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City Efficient

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[1909] Roosevelt & New Towns Programs; function more important than beauty; Greenhills, Greenbelt, Greendale

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Homestead Act

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[1832] 160 acres of land and 5 year residence, promoted settlement in US

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General Land Law Revision Act

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[1891] Gave president power to create forest preserves

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Forest Management Act

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[1897] to manage preserves

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US Reclamation Act
[1902] sale of public lands to provide water infrastructure
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Antiquities Act
[1906] protection for archaeological sites, national monuments
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Resettlement Administration
1935 - Used New Deal funds to develop communities including greenbelt communities.
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Servicemen's Readjustment Act
[1944] GI Bill - guaranteed home loans to veterans
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Regional Plan for NY and Environs
[1922-1929] Focused on suburban development
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Second Regional Plan for NY and Environs
Focused on comp plans
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Tenement Housing Act of 1867
Required all rooms to have windows (note necessarily to outside).
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Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act [1998]
Gave authority to federal gov/FEMA to respond to disasters.
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Disaster Mitigation Act [2000]
Requires local governments to prep and adopt mitigation plans.
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Tenement Housing Act of 1879
Required windows to open to outside - resulted in dumbbell tenements.
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Tenement Housing Law of 1901
Outlawed dumbbell tenements, required toilets, running water, etc.
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Housing Act of 1934
Established FHA to insure home mortgages.
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Housing Act of 1937
Provided $500M in home loans for low-cost housing. Tied slum clearance to public housing.
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Housing Act of 1949
First comprehensive housing legislation. Created federal urban renewal program.
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Housing Act of 1954
Slum prevention and urban renewal - provided funding for planning cities under 25K people. Funding for comp plans in Section 701.
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Housing Act of 1961
Subsidies for nonprofits, public agencies to construct public housing.
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
Made racial discrimination in sale or rental of housing illegal.
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Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968
Provided for construction of 6M subsidized housing units.
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National Affordable Housing Act of 1990
Created HOME program for housing rehabilitation.
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National Manufactured Housing and Safety Act of 1974
Regulation of mobile homes.
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Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
Created Section 8 housing voucher program.
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Urban Development Action Grant Program (UDAG)
Promoted public private partnerships for redevelopment of urban areas.
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Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act
Model cities - quasi-judicial organizations that decided their own problems, solutions. Federal government then funded these solutions.
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Public Roads Administration (PRA)
Implemented highway system beginning in 1947.
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Federal Highway Act of 1962
Authorized $25 billion in road construction initially and created mandate for transportation planning processes in urbanized areas over 50,000 people
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Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST) [2015]
Allowed planners to set own street standards for federally funded projects.
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MAP-21
2012, Streamlined, performance based funding for surface transportation; long-term highways.
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Wheeler-Howard Act
Restored land management to Native Americans in order to create an economic foundation for residents.
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Federal Highway Act of 1973
Funding for highways. Creation of MPO's. Creation of TIP programs.
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ISTEA [1991]
Multimodal infrastructure. Public participation.
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TEA-21 [1998]
Less funding for highways. Transit links to suburbs.
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SAFETEA [2005]
Highway safety. Public-private partnerships.
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HOPE VI Program
Eradicate distressed public housing - mixed use communities.
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HOME Program
Largest Block Grant program that allocates funding to create affordable housing.
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Housing Act of 1959
Funds for comp plans at metro, regional, state, interstate level.
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Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965
Created HUD.
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Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968
Allowed HUD to subsidize private homes.
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Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968
Basis for regional planning.
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Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
Created CDBG Program. Section 8 vouchers.
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Housing and Community Development Act of 1977
Created UDAG and HoDAG program.

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