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Planning Firsts Flashcards

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1st navigable waters from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes

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Erie Canal, NY (1825)

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One of the 1st planned communities built in the US. Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr. & Calvert Vaux.

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Riverside, IL (1869)

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Union Pacific railroad tracks and Central Pacific railroad tracks met here to create the transcontinental railroad

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Promontory Point, Utah (1869)

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1st National Park

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Yellowstone (1872)

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1st skyscraper

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Chicago (1884)

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1st city subway

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Boston (1897)

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1st National Wildlife Refuge

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Pelican Island, NY (1903)

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1st planning commission

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Hartford, CT (1907)

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1st garden suburb in NY. Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr. Inspired Clarence Perry’s neighborhood unit concept.

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Forest Hills Gardens, Queens (1911)

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10
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1st state to mandate subdivision plat referral

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New Jersey (1913)

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1st US transcontinental highway

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Lincoln Highway (1913)

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1st plan of an American new town designed to be an automobile-accessed suburb for industrial workers. Foreshadowed the New Urbanist movement.

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Mariemont, OH (1922)

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a model affordable housing community, modeled after the Garden City movement. Planned neighborhood design by Stein & Henry Wright.

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Sunnyside Gardens, Queens (1924)

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1st historic preservation commission

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Vieux Carre, New Orleans (1921/1925)

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1st regional planning commission

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LA County (1922)

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1st city zoning ordinance; Edward Bassett

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New York City (1916)

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1st off-street parking regulations

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Columbus, OH (1923)

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1st city comprehensive plan; Alfred Bettman & Ladislas Segoe

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Cincinnati, OH (1925)

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1st limited access highway

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Bronx River Parkway, NY (1926)

20
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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.

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Radburn, NJ (1928)

21
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1st historic preservation district ordinance

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Charleston, SC (1931)

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Frank Wright’s urban/suburban concept in his book The Disappearing City. An effort to decentralize the city. Never actually physically developed.

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Broadacre City (1932)

23
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the largest concrete structure

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Grand Coulee Dam, WA (1941)

24
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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.

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Park Forest, IL (1946)

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1st regional mall

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Southdale Center, Edina, Minnesota (1956)

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1st downtown (outdoor) mall

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Kalamazoo, Michigan (1956)

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1st statewide zoning

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Hawaii (1961)

28
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a New Town build by James Rouse, featuring some class integration and the neighborhood unit principle

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Columbia, MD (1963)

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1st town built completely to New Urbanist principles

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Seaside, FL (1981)

30
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1st COG

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Detroit, Michigan (1954)

31
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1st sole source aquifer

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Cape Cod

32
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heavy-rail public transit and subway system serving the San Francisco Bay Area

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Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) (1972)

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1st example of US regional transportation planning. Operates rail, air, and seaports

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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (1921)

34
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1st state-level land use plan in US. Primarily written by Henry Wright.

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New York

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1st state to make planning mandatory for local government

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Massachusetts

36
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created the 1st planned unit development (PUD)

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Prince George County, MD

37
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1st state to pass enabling act legislation in 1909, granting municipalities

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Wisconsin

38
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1st city to enact an urban growth boundary

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Lexington, KY (1958)

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1st comprehensive city survey

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Pittsburgh, PA (1907)

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hired the 1st full-time employee for a city planning commission

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Newark, NJ (1914)

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1st local civic center plan in US; Daniel Burnham, John Carrere, and Arnold Brunner

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Cleveland, OH (1903)

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1st federally supported public housing constructed

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Cleveland, OH (1934)

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1st land use zoning restrictions on the location of noxious uses

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San Francisco, CA (1867)

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1st major American city to apply City Beautiful principles

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San Francisco, CA (1906)

45
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1st city to use land use zoning to guide development

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LA, CA (1909)

46
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1st metro regional plan in the US

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Chicago, IL (1909)

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