Important Places Flashcards
Letchworth, UK
- 1st English Garden City
- Inspired New Towns
1903
Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York
- 1st US attempt at Garden City but really just a planned community
1920s
designed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright
constructed by the City Housing Corporation
Radburn, NJ
1st American Garden City
1920s
designed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright
Greendale, WI
Greenbelt Towns Program / Green Towns Program
Green Hills, OH
Greenbelt Towns Program / Green Towns Program
Greenbelt, MD
Greenbelt Towns Program / Green Towns Program
Park Forest, IL
New Towns Program
1940s
Reston, VA
New Towns Program
Columbia, MD
New Towns Program
1960s
Tysons Corner, VA
Edge Cities
Seaside, FL
1st New Urbanist Town
1980s
Pullman, IL
model industrial town
1980s
built by George Pullman
Chicago, IL
- World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)
- 1909 Plan for Chicago - first metropolitan regional plan
- first major introduction of transfer of development rights (1971)
Daniel Burnham
San Francisco, CA
- 1st land use zonign restrictions (noxious uses) in 1867
- City Beautiful (1st application in major American City) in 1906
- first rapid transit system (1972)
Cleveland, OH
- first local civic center plan (1903)
- first federally supported public housing constructed (19934)
Daniel Burnham, Carrere, and Brunner involved in plan
Pittsburgh, PA
first comprehensive city survey
1907
Hartford, CT
first official, local, and permanent planning board
1907
Washington, D.C.
- 1st National Conference on City Planning (1909)
- McMillan Plan for D.C. (Burnham, et al.)
- Le Corbusier
Los Angeles
- First city to use land use zoning to guide development (1909)
- 1st regional planning commission (LA County)
Newark, NJ
Hires the first full-time municipally employed planner - Harland Bartholomew
1914
New York City
- adopts the nation’s first comprehensive zoning resolution (1916)
- first major american city to introduce “flexible” controls in their zoning ordinance
New Orleans
1st historic preservation commission in the US
1921
The Vieux Carre Commission
Kansas City, MO
1st suburban auto-oriented shopping center
1922
Cincinnati, OH
first major city to endorse (1925) and adopt (1948) a comprehensive Plan
Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe
Levittown, NY
planned community
1940s
Detroit
origin of the Council of Government movement
Wisconsin
1st State Enabling Act legislation
1909
New Jersey
first state to introduce the mandatory referral of subdivision plats
1913
Massachusetts
first state to make planning mandatory for local governments
1913
California
first state to institute extraterritorial mandatory referral of subdivision plats
1915
Miami, OH
first regional functional authoirty plan adopted by Miami Conservancy District, Ohio
1916
Hawaii
first state to institute statewide zoning
1961
Arcosanti
- experimental utopian city
- focused on minimizing the impact of development on the natural environment
- Arizona
- Paolo Soleri was architect
Arthurdale, WV
- Resettlement Administration community
- Rexford Tugwell closely involved
Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota
- built in 1956
- first indoor regional shopping mall in the U.S
- part of a master plan that included residential, commercial, medical, office, and mixed-use projects
- set the precedent for shopping malls
- Victor Gruen, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, arrived in America in 1938 and went on to be a dominant figure in shopping mall design.
