Planning History Extra Flashcards

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Construction of Letchworth

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1903

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Public lands commission

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Pres. Theodore Roosevelt appointed the second public lands commission to study public land policy and laws for open range and federal lands. Fronted by Gifford Pinchot

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3
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First official city planning commission

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1907, in Hartford Connecticut

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4
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Forest Hill Gardens

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First Planned garden suburb in the US 1909

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5
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National Park Service

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President Woodrow Wilson created it in 1916

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6
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First historic district ordinance

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1931, in Charleston SC

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Hippodamus

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Considered first town planner and creator of grid layout

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Aristotle

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Critic of Hippodamus, said it was visually appealing but made it easier for invaders

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William Penn

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Philadelphia plan (1683) rectangular grid with central square , 4 quadrants, each quadrant had green space

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10
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James Oglethorpe

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1733 Savannah Plan (Ward System)

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1st suburb

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Riverside (Olmstead and Vaux)

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Pullman Illinois

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Created by Pullman, 1880, railroad tycoon, company town

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13
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Movements in history

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Early 1800s (agrarian) -> 1850s Parks Movement (Olmstead/Vaux Central Park) -> 1850s-1970s Public Health (Tenement Acts NYC) -> 1880s Settlement House (working class help, Jane Addams) -> Late 1880s City Beautiful -> Early 1900s Garden City -> 1920s City Efficient (Standard Enabling Acts- Hoover) -> 1930s City Humane (Great Depression) -> 1940s -50s City Functional (WAR, postwar and sunbelt migration) -> 1960s Civil Rights HUD ends with Nixons NEPA -> 1980s New Wave (New Urbanism, Seaside)

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14
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1st historic preservation comission

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NOLA

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15
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1st Skyscraper

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Chicago

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16
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Duane

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New urbanism transect / smart code

17
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Jean Gottman

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Megalopolis

18
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Peter Calthorpe

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CNU and TOD

19
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Joel Garreau

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Edge city (more jobs than bedrooms)

20
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Typical GIS colors

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Yellow=residential
Red = commercial
Purple = industrial
Brown = high density residential
Blue = public institution
Green = recreation
Grey = utilities

21
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Arnstein 3 tiers

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  1. No participation 2. Tokenism 3. Citizen power
22
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New towns

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Towns built after ww2, purposefully planned and built to remedy overcrowding and congestion

23
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James rouse

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Indoor shopping malls Edina Minnesota = first , created Colombia MD (new town) - self containing self villages intended to eliminate inconvenienced of subdivision and seg.

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Ernest burgess

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Concentric zone theory