History of Planning Profession

Question 1

When and where was the 1st National Conference on City Planning held? Who organized it?

Answer 1

• 1909
• Washington D.C.
• Benjamin Marsh

• Most of the prominent urbanists of the time attended the event, including Frederick Law Olmsted, John Nolen, and George Ford.
• The conference led directly to the creation of the American City Planning Institute in 1917.

Question 2

When and where was the 1st City Planning Course offered?

Answer 2

• 1909
• Harvard’s Landscape Architecture department
• Course titled “The Principles of City Planning”

Question 3

What was Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago? When was it written and by whom?

Answer 3

• 1911
• focused on the development of the 1909 plan of Chicago, the city’s history, and its transportation problems.
• 8th grade text book distributed to all Chicago schools and the first initiative to educate children about planning.
• Written by Walter Moody

Question 4

What was Carrying Out the City Plan? When was it written and by whom?

Answer 4

• 1914
• Written by Flavel Shurtleff
• First text on the legal framework for city planning

Question 5

When was the American City Planning Institute Founded? Who was its first president?

ACPI

Answer 5

• 1917
• Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.

Formalized the group that had organized the first National Conference on City Planning in 1909.

Question 6

What was the Regional Planning Association of America? When was it founded?

RPAA

Answer 6

• 1923
• a collaborative group of New York City-based thinkers on city and regional planning

included Clarence Stein, Benton MacKaye, Lewis Mumford, Henry Wright, and Alexander Bing

Question 7

When was the 1st Issue of City Planning published? Who published it? What was this the predecessor of?

Answer 7

• 1925
• published by ACPI and National Conference on City Planning
• Predecessor to the Journal of the American Planning Association

Question 8

When was the American Society of Planning Officials founded?

ASPO

Answer 8

1934

Question 9

What was the American City Planning Institute renamed to? When?

Answer 9

• American Institute of Planners
• 1934

AIP

Question 10

When did the American Institute of Planners first adopt a code of ethics?

AIP

Answer 10

1971

Question 11

When did the American Institute of Planners offer its first membership exam?

Answer 11

1977

Question 12

What two organizations merged to form the American Planning Association? When?

APA

Answer 12

• American Institute of Planners (AIP) (formerly the American City Planning Institute or ACPI)
• American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO)
• 1978

Question 13

When was the first issue of the Journal of Planning Education and Research published? By whom?

Answer 13

• 1981
• Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning