Planning History Extra Flashcards
Construction of Letchworth
1903
Public lands commission
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
First official city planning commission
1907, in Hartford Connecticut
Forest Hill Gardens
First Planned garden suburb in the US 1909
National Park Service
President Woodrow Wilson created it in 1916
First historic district ordinance
1931, in Charleston SC
Hippodamus
Considered first town planner and creator of grid layout
Aristotle
Critic of Hippodamus, said it was visually appealing but made it easier for invaders
William Penn
Philadelphia plan (1683) rectangular grid with central square , 4 quadrants, each quadrant had green space
James Oglethorpe
1733 Savannah Plan (Ward System)
1st suburb
Riverside (Olmstead and Vaux)
Pullman Illinois
Created by Pullman, 1880, railroad tycoon, company town
Movements in history
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)
1st historic preservation comission
NOLA
1st Skyscraper
Chicago