Planning Firsts Flashcards
1st navigable waters from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes
Erie Canal, NY (1825)
One of the 1st planned communities built in the US. Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr. & Calvert Vaux.
Riverside, IL (1869)
Union Pacific railroad tracks and Central Pacific railroad tracks met here to create the transcontinental railroad
Promontory Point, Utah (1869)
1st National Park
Yellowstone (1872)
1st skyscraper
Chicago (1884)
1st city subway
Boston (1897)
1st National Wildlife Refuge
Pelican Island, NY (1903)
1st planning commission
Hartford, CT (1907)
1st garden suburb in NY. Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr. Inspired Clarence Perry’s neighborhood unit concept.
Forest Hills Gardens, Queens (1911)
1st state to mandate subdivision plat referral
New Jersey (1913)
1st US transcontinental highway
Lincoln Highway (1913)
1st plan of an American new town designed to be an automobile-accessed suburb for industrial workers. Foreshadowed the New Urbanist movement.
Mariemont, OH (1922)
a model affordable housing community, modeled after the Garden City movement. Planned neighborhood design by Stein & Henry Wright.
Sunnyside Gardens, Queens (1924)
1st historic preservation commission
Vieux Carre, New Orleans (1921/1925)
1st regional planning commission
LA County (1922)
1st city zoning ordinance; Edward Bassett
New York City (1916)
1st off-street parking regulations
Columbus, OH (1923)
1st city comprehensive plan; Alfred Bettman & Ladislas Segoe
Cincinnati, OH (1925)
1st limited access highway
Bronx River Parkway, NY (1926)
designed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright as the ‘city for the motor age.’ Forerunner for greenbelt towns. Established the super-block with center-block paths as a model for residential site planning.
Radburn, NJ (1928)
1st historic preservation district ordinance
Charleston, SC (1931)
Frank Wright’s urban/suburban concept in his book The Disappearing City. An effort to decentralize the city. Never actually physically developed.
Broadacre City (1932)
the largest concrete structure
Grand Coulee Dam, WA (1941)
a post-WWII planned suburb near Chicago. Designed by Elbert Peets. Olmstead and Vaux. A 1,600-acre self-governing community with enough space for recreation and scenic areas.
Park Forest, IL (1946)
1st regional mall
Southdale Center, Edina, Minnesota (1956)
1st downtown (outdoor) mall
Kalamazoo, Michigan (1956)
1st statewide zoning
Hawaii (1961)
a New Town build by James Rouse, featuring some class integration and the neighborhood unit principle
Columbia, MD (1963)
1st town built completely to New Urbanist principles
Seaside, FL (1981)
1st COG
Detroit, Michigan (1954)
1st sole source aquifer
Cape Cod
heavy-rail public transit and subway system serving the San Francisco Bay Area
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) (1972)
1st example of US regional transportation planning. Operates rail, air, and seaports
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (1921)
1st state-level land use plan in US. Primarily written by Henry Wright.
New York
1st state to make planning mandatory for local government
Massachusetts
created the 1st planned unit development (PUD)
Prince George County, MD
1st state to pass enabling act legislation in 1909, granting municipalities
Wisconsin
1st city to enact an urban growth boundary
Lexington, KY (1958)
1st comprehensive city survey
Pittsburgh, PA (1907)
hired the 1st full-time employee for a city planning commission
Newark, NJ (1914)
1st local civic center plan in US; Daniel Burnham, John Carrere, and Arnold Brunner
Cleveland, OH (1903)
1st federally supported public housing constructed
Cleveland, OH (1934)
1st land use zoning restrictions on the location of noxious uses
San Francisco, CA (1867)
1st major American city to apply City Beautiful principles
San Francisco, CA (1906)
1st city to use land use zoning to guide development
LA, CA (1909)
1st metro regional plan in the US
Chicago, IL (1909)
