Planning History

Question 1

When and Where was the first national Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief held?

Answer 1

In 1909 the first national planning conference was held in Washington D.C.

Question 2

Who is the author for “Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago” and what year was it published?

Answer 2

Walter Moody was the author and this book was published in 1912. Fun fact, this is the first known formal instruction in city planning below the college level.

Question 3

In what year who wrote “Carrying Out the City Plan, the first major textbook on city planning?

Answer 3

Flavel Shurtleff in 1914

Question 4

When was the American City Planning Institute (ACPI) was founded? Who was the first president for the organization?

Answer 4

In 1917 the ACPI was founded and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. was the first president.

Question 5

When was the ACPI (American City Planning Institute) renamed to the American Institute of Planners (AIP)?

Answer 5

In 1939, the ACPI was renamed to AIP.

Question 6

When did the American City Planning Institute and the National Conference on City Planning publish their first issue of “City Planning”? what was this journal later renamed to?

Answer 6

In 1925 ACPI and the National Conference on City Planning published their first issue of “City Planning”. This was the predecessor to the current Journal of the American Planning Association.

Question 7

When was American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) founded?

Answer 7

1934

Question 8

When did the AIP adopt a Code of Ethics for professional planners?

Answer 8

1971

Question 9

When did the AIP and ASPO organizations merge and what did they form together?

Answer 9

In 1978, AIP and ASPO merged to form the American Planning Association.

Question 10

When did the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning published the first issue of The Journal of Planning Education and Research?

Answer 10

1981

Question 11

When did San Francisco pass the first land use zoning restrictions on the location of noxious uses?

Answer 11

1867

Question 12

When did Cleveland create the first local civic center plan in the U.S. and who were responsible for the plan’s development

Answer 12

1903 and Danial Burnham, John Carrere, and Arnold Brunner were responsible for the plans development.

Question 13

What year did San Francisco, the first major American city, apply the City Beautiful principles, and who’s plan did they use to develop it?

Answer 13

In 1906, San Francisco applied the City Beautiful principles using a plan developed by Daniel Burnham.

Question 14

When and where was the first town planning board created?

Answer 14

in 1907, Hartford, Connecticut

Question 15

What year was the first metropolitan regional plan created for Chicago and who created it?

Answer 15

1909 and Daniel Burnham

Question 16

Who was the first full-time employee for a city-planning commission? when and where did this occur?

Answer 16

Harland Bartholomew was the first full time employee and this occurred in 1914 in Newark, New Jersey.

Question 17

What year did New York City adopt the first comprehensive zoning code and who wrote it?

Answer 17

1916, and written by Edward Bassett.

Question 18

When did Los Angeles County form the first regional planning commission

Answer 18

1922

Question 19

When did Secretary Herbert Hoover of the U.S. Department of Commerce issue the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act?

Answer 19

1924

Question 20

When did The City of Cincinnati, the first major U.S. city, to adopt a comprehensive plan? And who produced the plan?

Answer 20

1925, and the plan was produced by Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe.

Question 21

When did the U.S. Department of Commerce, under Secretary Herbert Hoover, release the Standard City Planning Enabling Act?

Answer 21

1928

Question 22

Which was the first state to introduce statewide zoning, which was later amended in 1978?

Answer 22

Hawaii in 1961

Question 23

Who published “How the Other Half Lives” and what was it about?

Answer 23

The author was Jacob Riis, published in 1890. The book was about documenting squalid living conditions in New York Slums. This resulted in housing reform in New York.

Question 24

Who wrote the book “Tomorrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform” and what year was it published? What movement did this book initiate?

Answer 24

Written by Ebenezer Howard and published in 1898. This book initiated the “Garden City Movement”

Question 25

When was the Regional Plan for New York and Environs created and what did it focus on?

Answer 25

Between 1922 and 1929, the Regional Plan for New York and Environs was created. The plan focused on suburban development, highway construction, and suburban recreational facilities. Stein and Mumford were involved in the creation of the plan.