History of Planning (Day 1) Flashcards
What year was the first national planning conference held?
1909
What was the name of the first national planning conference and which city was it held in?
National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief in Washington, D.C.
What year was the first city planning course taught?
1909
Where was the first city planning course taught?
Harvard’s landscaping architecture department
Name the first known formal instruction book on city planning, introduced below the college level.
Wacker’s manual of the plan of Chicago
Who published the Wacker’s manual of the plan of chicago?
Walter Moody
What year did Walter Moody publish the Wacker’s manual of the plan of chicago?
1912
What was the name of the first major textbook on city planning?
Carrying out the City Plan
Who wrote the first major textbook of city planning?
Flavel Shurtleff
When was the first textbook on city planning published?
1914
In 1917, the ________________ was founded.
American City Planning Institute of Planners (ACPI)
Who was the first president of ACPI?
Frederick Law Olmstead Jr.,
What was the ACPI renamed to and in what year did it occur?
American Institute of Planners (AIP) in 1939
When was the first issue of City Planning published and who were its authors?
1925, The ACPI and the National Conference on City Planning
City planning is the predecessor of what current journal?
Journal of the American Planning Association
What year was the American Society of Planning Officials founded?
1934
When did the AIP adopt the Code of Ethics for professional planners?
1971
What year was the first exam for AIP membership administered?
1977
AIP and ASPO merged and created what organization? What year did the merger occur?
American Planning Association, in 1978
In 1981 the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning published the first issue of __________________?
Journal of Planning Education and Research
Which city passed the first land use zoning restriction on the location of noxious uses? What year did it happen in?
San Francisco, 1867
The first local civic center plan was created for which city?
Cleveland
What year was the first local civic center plan created?
1903
Who was responsible of the first local civic center plan?
Daniel Burnham, Josh Carrere, and Arnold Brunner
Which US city was the first to apply City Beautiful principles? And what year did it occur in?
San Francisco; 1906
Who developed the plan with City Beautiful principles?
Daniel Burnham
When and where was the first planning board created?
Hartford, Connecticut in 1907
Daniel Burnham created the first metropolitan regional plan for what city and what year?
Chicago in 1909
Who is Harland Bartholomew?
First full-time employee for the city planning commission of Newark, NJ
What year was the first full-time employee for the city planning commission hired?
1914
NYC adopted the first comprehensive zoning code, written by who and in what year?
Edward Bassett in 1916
Secretary Hoover issued what major act in 1924?
the Standard Zoning Enabling Act
Which city was the first to adopt a comprehensive plan? What year did it occurr?
Cincinnati in 1925
Who produced the first comprehensive plan adopted by a major city?
Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe
In 1928, Secretary Hoover released which major act?
Standard City Planning Enabling Act
When was the first U.S. National Planning Board created?
1933
What was the U.S National Planning Board renamed to and when was it abolished?
National Resources Planning Board and it was abolished in 1943.
What year was the first federally supported public housing constructed and where?
1934 in Cleveland
The first federally supported public housing was first occupied in which city?
Atlanta
Which state was the first to introduce statewide zoning and in what year did it occur?
Hawaii, 1961
