Timeline Flashcards
(134 cards)
Inventor of Ancient Planning
Hippodamus in Ancient Greece, made grids to utilize the sun
City of Ur
Mesopotamia, divided cities into quarters for merchants, artisans, etc.
Decumanus
Roman Planning - E/W roads
Cardo
Roman Planning - N/S Roads
Holy Field
Ancient Chinese Planning - 9 squares around a central square where the capital was located
Egyptian Planning
Building of grids with administration and religion in the center and a Royal Road for the King. Housing was north and south of this.
Indian Planning
Harappa, Lothal, Dholavira & Mohenjo-Daro featured grids, alleys, minor streets, and major roads. Harappa had noise reducing houses.
Grand Model for the Province of Carolina
1670 - Influenced colonial settlement and town building. Included Town Planning, Wide Streets, Standard Rectangular Lots, Public Square, Reserved Lots for Civic Buildings and Greenbelts.
Oglethorpe Plan
1730 - Savannah, GA Distinctive street network of residential blocks, commercial blocks, small green parks, and walkable neighborhoods.
Garden City Movement
1898 - Sir Ebenezer Howard - Self-contained communities surrounded by greenbelts with proportionate residences and agriculture. Decentralized work from the City Center
L’Enfant Plan for DC
Made in 1792 with help from Andrew Ellicott
NY Tenement House Law
1901 - New building standards to reduced dumbbell tenement, include light through windows and courtyards
McMillan Plan
1902 - Redesigned the DC National Mall to include Lincoln and Grant Memorials
First De Facto City Planning Commission
1902 - Cleveland, Ohio. Local Chapter of AIA formed a de facto planning commission.
Letchworth
1903 - First Garden City in UK
Public Lands Commission
1903 - Teddy Roosevelt signs into law, run by Gifford Pinchot and determined purposes of public land
Antiquities Act
1906 - Teddy Roosevelt signs into law, preserved archaeological sites. Devils’ Tower was the first.
NY Congestion Committee
1907 - Florence Kelley and Mary Simkovich form a coalition to remedy overcrowding in the poorest parts of NYC
First Official Planning Commission
1907 - In Hartford, CT
NY Congestion Exhibit
1908 - Result of NY Congestion Committee. At Museum of Natural History and toured the US, pushing for overcrowding reform.
Ford Launches Model T
1908 - Everything goes to hell
Forest Hills Gardens
1909 - Queens, NY. First planned “Garden Suburb” in the US
First Urban Planning Course
1909 - Harvard University
First Urban Planning Program
1923 - Harvard University