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Important Places Flashcards

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Letchworth, UK

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  • 1st English Garden City
  • Inspired New Towns

1903

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Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York

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  • 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

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Radburn, NJ

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1st American Garden City

1920s

designed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright

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Greendale, WI

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Greenbelt Towns Program / Green Towns Program

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Green Hills, OH

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Greenbelt Towns Program / Green Towns Program

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Greenbelt, MD

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Greenbelt Towns Program / Green Towns Program

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Park Forest, IL

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New Towns Program

1940s

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Reston, VA

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New Towns Program

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Columbia, MD

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New Towns Program

1960s

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Tysons Corner, VA

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Edge Cities

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Seaside, FL

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1st New Urbanist Town

1980s

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Pullman, IL

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model industrial town

1980s

built by George Pullman

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Chicago, IL

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  • World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)
  • 1909 Plan for Chicago - first metropolitan regional plan
  • first major introduction of transfer of development rights (1971)

Daniel Burnham

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San Francisco, CA

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  • 1st land use zonign restrictions (noxious uses) in 1867
  • City Beautiful (1st application in major American City) in 1906
  • first rapid transit system (1972)
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Cleveland, OH

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  • first local civic center plan (1903)
  • first federally supported public housing constructed (19934)

Daniel Burnham, Carrere, and Brunner involved in plan

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Pittsburgh, PA

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first comprehensive city survey

1907

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Hartford, CT

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first official, local, and permanent planning board

1907

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Washington, D.C.

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  • 1st National Conference on City Planning (1909)
  • McMillan Plan for D.C. (Burnham, et al.)
  • Le Corbusier
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Los Angeles

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  • First city to use land use zoning to guide development (1909)
  • 1st regional planning commission (LA County)
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Newark, NJ

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Hires the first full-time municipally employed planner - Harland Bartholomew

1914

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New York City

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  • adopts the nation’s first comprehensive zoning resolution (1916)
  • first major american city to introduce “flexible” controls in their zoning ordinance
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New Orleans

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1st historic preservation commission in the US

1921

The Vieux Carre Commission

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Kansas City, MO

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1st suburban auto-oriented shopping center

1922

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Cincinnati, OH

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first major city to endorse (1925) and adopt (1948) a comprehensive Plan

Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe

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Levittown, NY

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planned community

1940s

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Detroit

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origin of the Council of Government movement

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Wisconsin

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1st State Enabling Act legislation

1909

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New Jersey

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first state to introduce the mandatory referral of subdivision plats

1913

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Massachusetts

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first state to make planning mandatory for local governments

1913

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California

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first state to institute extraterritorial mandatory referral of subdivision plats

1915

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Miami, OH

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first regional functional authoirty plan adopted by Miami Conservancy District, Ohio

1916

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Hawaii

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first state to institute statewide zoning

1961

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Arcosanti

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  • experimental utopian city
  • focused on minimizing the impact of development on the natural environment
  • Arizona
  • Paolo Soleri was architect
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Arthurdale, WV

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  • Resettlement Administration community
  • Rexford Tugwell closely involved
35
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Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota

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  • 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.

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