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First National Planning Conference

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1909, held at the National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief in Washington, D.C.

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First City Planning Course

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1909, the first city planning course was taught in Harvard’s Landscape Architecture Department.

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Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago

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1912, Walter Moody. Adopted as an eighth-grade textbook by the Chicago Board of Education. This is the first known formal instruction in city planning below the college level.

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Carrying Out the City Plan

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1914, Flavel Shurtleff. The first major textbook on city planning.

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American City Planning Institute of Planners (ACIP)

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Founded in 1917. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., was ACIP’s first president.

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American Institute of Planners (AIP)

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1939 renaming of American City Planning Institute of Planners (ACIP)

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First issue of City Planning

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In 1925, published by the American City Planning Institute and the National Conference on City Planning This was the predecessor to the current Journal of the American Planning Association.

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American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO)

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Founded 1934

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Code of Ethics

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Adopted by American Institute of Planners AIP in 1971

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First exam for American Institute of Planners AIP membership

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Administered in 1977

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American Planning Association was created

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1978, merger of American Institute of Planners AIP and American Society of Planning Officials ASPO

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First land use zoning restrictions on the location of noxious uses.

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1867, San Francisco

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First local civic center plan in the U.S.

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1903, Cleveland. Daniel Burnham, John Carrere, and Arnold Brunner led the development.

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First major American city to apply City Beautiful principles

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1906, San Francisco. Daniel Burnham developed.

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First town planning board

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1907, Hartford Connecticut

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First metropolitan regional plan

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1909, Chicago by Daniel Burnham.

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First city to use land use zoning to guide development.

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1909, Los Angeles.

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First state to pass enabling legislation

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1909, Wisconsin

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First full-time employee for a city planning commission,

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Harland Bartholomew was hired in Newark, New Jersey in 1914. Became famous planning consultant

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First comprehensive zoning code

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1916, NYC. Written by Edward Bassett

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First regional planning commission

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1922, LA County

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Standard State Zoning Enabling Act

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1924, issued by Secretary Herbert Hoover of the U.S. Department of Commerce

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First major U.S. city to adopt a comprehensive plan

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1925, Cincinnati. Alfred Bettman, Ladislas Segoe.

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Standard City Planning Enabling Act.

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1928, issued by Secretary Herbert Hoover of the U.S. Department of Commerce

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The first U.S. National Planning Board

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  1. It was later renamed the National Resources Planning Board and then abolished in 1943.
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The first federally supported public housing constructed

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Atlanta, 1934 (?)

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First state to introduce statewide zoning

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Hawaii, 1961. Later amended in 1978.

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How the Other Half Lives

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Jacob Riis, published in 1890. This book resulted in housing reform in New York City.

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Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

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Ebenezer Howard, published in 1898. This book initiated the Garden City movement.

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Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago

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Walter Moody, published in 1912. This book was adopted as a textbook for eighth graders in Chicago.

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Carrying Out the City Plan

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Flavel Shurtleff, published in 1914. This book was the first major textbook on city planning.

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Cities in Evolution

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Patrick Geddess, published in 1915. This book centers on regional planning, and Geddes is known as the “father of regional planning.”

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Planning of the Modern City

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Nelson Lewis, published in 1916.

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Local Planning Administration

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Ladislas Segoe, published in 1941. This book was the first in the Green Book Series produced by the International City/County Management Association.

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Urban Land Use Planning

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F. Stuart Chapin, published in 1957. This book became a common textbook on land use planning.

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Image of the City

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Kevin Lynch, published in 1960. This book defines basic concepts within the city, such as edges and nodes

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Jane Jacobs, published in 1961. Jacobs provided a critical look at planners and planning, with a special focus on the mistakes of urban renewal.

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Silent Spring

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Rachel Carlson, published in 1962. This book focuses on the negative effects of pesticides on the environment.

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The Urban General Plan

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TJ Kent, published in 1964.

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With Heritage So Rich

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edited by Alfred Reins, published in 1966. This is a seminal book on historic preservation.

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Design with Nature

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Ian McHarg, published in 1969. This book focuses on conservation design using an overlay technique that was later the basis of GIS.

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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

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William Whyte, published in 1980. This book promotes the use of environmental psychology and sociology in urban design.

43
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Erie Canal built in what year?

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1825

44
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Union Pacific RR and Central Pacific RR joined in Utah in what year?

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1869

45
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Where and when was the first US subway built?

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Boston 1897

46
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Where and when was the first historic preservation commission?

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Vieux Carrie, New Orleans 1921

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Where and when we’re the first off street parking regulations enacted?

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Columbus Ohio 1923

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Where and when was the first historic preservation ordinance passed?

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Charleston South Carolina 1931

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Where and when was the first urban growth boundary established in US?

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Lexington Kentucky 1958

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What State was the first to institute statewide zoning and when?

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Hawaii 1961

51
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What is the largest concrete structure in the us?

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Grand Coulee Dam in 1941

52
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What does ZIP code stand for?

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Zone Improvement Plan Code

53
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How many square feet in an acre?

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43,560

54
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How many linear feet in a mile?

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5,280

55
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How many acres in one hectare?

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2.47

56
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How many acres in a square mile?

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640

57
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What scale is a USGS topo quadrangle map in?

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1:24,000 which means 1 inch on map equals 24,000 inches (2,000 feet) in real world.

58
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When was the first Earth Day?

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April 22, 1970

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When and Where was the first national conference on city planning?

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Washington DC in 1909

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What are the functions of planning, within the framework of linking goals/knowledge to action?

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1) improve efficiency of outcomes
2) enhance social welfare
3) widen range of choice
4) enrich civic engagement and governance

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Types of Planning Theories

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1) Normative
2) Disciplinary
3) Procedural

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Planning Movements

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Parks
Sanitary Reform
Settlement House
City Beautiful
Garden City
City Efficient
Progressive Movements
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CPTED Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

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a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behaviour through environmental design.

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PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique

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(Scheduling technique) PERT is a project management tool which was designed to analyze tasks of a project and to identify the minimum time needed to complete the total project.

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TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

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The TVA is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression

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Linear Programming

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A technique to find the optimum design solution for a project

67
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ITE parking generation rates for Office

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0.5-3.0 spaces per 1,000sf

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ITE parking generate rates for Shopping Centers

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1.0-5.0 spaces per 1,000sf

69
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What was the first national wildlife refuge?

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Pelican Island in 1903

70
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Programmable thermostat cost savings

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Up to 20% in heating costs saved.

Closing off air vents in unoccupied rooms saves 5-10%.

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When was the first National Park created?

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Yellowstone National Park established in 1872

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When was the National Park Service created?

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In 1912

73
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Real property includes rights to what?

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all land, structures, attached equipment such as street lights, anything growing on the land, the right to drill for oil, use airspace or an easement across another’s property

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What is a plebiscite?

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A plebiscite is a direct vote on an issue

75
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Which federal agency is tasked with disposal of excess federal property?

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General Services Administration

76
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McMillan Plan of 1901

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The Plan (and Committee of same name) sought to resurrect L’Enfant’s 1791 Plan for Washington, D.C. and restore the city to civic greatness.

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What was considered the first Garden City in the U.S.?

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Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, New York, 1922. Clarence Stein devised the plan for 1,202 housing units.

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What is origin of the “Green Book” used as a main reference in city planning?

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Local Planning Administration by Ladislas Segoe, published in 1941, was the first in the Green Book Series produced by the International City/County Management Association.

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RPAA

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Regional Planning Association of America, 1923-33. led by Clarence Stein, was an urban reform association that advocated Garden Cities and other innovations in town planning and environmental conservation. Not to be confused with the RPA (Regional Plan Association of New York

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