Planning History Extra

Question 1

Construction of Letchworth

Answer 1

1903

Question 2

Public lands commission

Answer 2

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

Question 3

First official city planning commission

Answer 3

1907, in Hartford Connecticut

Question 4

Forest Hill Gardens

Answer 4

First Planned garden suburb in the US 1909

Question 5

National Park Service

Answer 5

President Woodrow Wilson created it in 1916

Question 6

First historic district ordinance

Answer 6

1931, in Charleston SC

Question 7

Hippodamus

Answer 7

Considered first town planner and creator of grid layout

Question 8

Aristotle

Answer 8

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

Question 9

William Penn

Answer 9

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

Question 10

James Oglethorpe

Answer 10

1733 Savannah Plan (Ward System)

Question 11

1st suburb

Answer 11

Riverside (Olmstead and Vaux)

Question 12

Pullman Illinois

Answer 12

Created by Pullman, 1880, railroad tycoon, company town

Question 13

Movements in history

Answer 13

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)

Question 14

1st historic preservation comission

Answer 14

NOLA

Question 15

1st Skyscraper

Answer 15

Chicago

Question 16

Duane

Answer 16

New urbanism transect / smart code

Question 17

Jean Gottman

Answer 17

Megalopolis

Question 18

Peter Calthorpe

Answer 18

CNU and TOD

Question 19

Joel Garreau

Answer 19

Edge city (more jobs than bedrooms)

Question 20

Typical GIS colors

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Arnstein 3 tiers

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1. No participation 2. Tokenism 3. Citizen power

Question 22

New towns

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

Question 23

James rouse

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Ernest burgess

Answer 24

Concentric zone theory