Timeline history

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Ordinance of 1785

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provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest. Daniel Elazar called the rectangular survey has been called “the largest single act of national planning in our history and the most significant in terms of continuing impact on the body politic”.

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First “model tenement”

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built in Manhattan1855

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opened lands of the Public Domain to settlers for a nominal fee and five years residence.

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1862 Homestead Act

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1864 New York Council of Hygiene of the Citizens Association

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mounts a campaign to raise housing and sanitary standards.

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First major tenement house law (New York) restricting physical conditions.

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1867

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prohibits specific obnoxious uses in certain districts–beginning of land-use zoning in U.S.

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1867 San Francisco

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A form of multifamily housing widely built in New York, and notorious for poor living conditions (lack of light, air, space).

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1879 “Dumbbell Tenement”.

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A source of the City Beautiful Movement and of the urban planning profession.

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1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago

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the legislative basis for the revision of city codes that outlawed tenements such as the “Dumbbell Tenement

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1901 New York State Tenement House Law

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first English Garden City, is constructed. This is a stimulus to the New Town movement in America.

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1903 Letchworth

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plan developed for Cleveland, by Daniel
H. Burnham.

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1903 First local “civic center”

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First comprehensive city survey,

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1907 Pittsburgh

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Plan for San Francisco and the first application of “City Beautiful” principles to a major American city.

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1906 Daniel Burnham’s

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First official, local, and permanent planning board

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1907 Hartford, Connecticut

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First National Conference on City Planning in Washington, D.C

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1909

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First State Enabling Act

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1909 Wisconsin

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Plan of Chicago

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1909 Daniel Burnham

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Carrying Out the City Plan is the first major American textbook on planning

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1913 Flavel Shurtleff’s

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first private planning consulting firm, located in New York City and created by George B. Ford and Earnest P. Goodrich

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1913 Technical Advisory Corporation

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first state to make planning mandatory for local governments

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1913 Massachusetts

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first full-time municipally employed planner

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Harland Bartholomew

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Cities in Evolution, a foundation for regional planning theory

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1915 Patrick Geddes

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The National Park Service

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1916

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Planning of the Modern City

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1916 Nelson P. Lewis

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First federal-aid highway act

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1916

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becomes first president of newly founded American City Planning Institute, forerunner of the American Institute of Planners and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

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1917 Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.

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First parkway in America completed

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1919 Bronx River Parkway, New York

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first statewide citizens organization in support of planning

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1919 Ohio Planning Conference

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first historic preservation commission in the U.S.

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1921 New Orleans Vieux Carre Commission

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The first suburban auto-oriented shopping center, "County Club Plaza"

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1922 Kansas City, Missouri

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Standard State Zoning Enabling Act

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1924

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first major American city to endorse a comprehensive plan.

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1925 Cincinnati, Ohio

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"Concentric Zone" model of urban structure and land use

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1925 Ernest Burgess's

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Standard City Planning Enabling Act

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1928

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first "new town"

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1928 Radburn, New Jersey

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The Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs

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1929 Clarence Perry

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New Deal

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1933

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Federal Emergency Relief Administration is set up

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1933 Harry Hopkins

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help homeowners facing loss through foreclosure.

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1933 The Home Owners Loan Corporation

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created for unified and multipurpose rehabilitation and redevelopment of the Tennessee valley. It was the first large-scale regional program in integrated economic, social, and physical development planning by the federal government.

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1933 The Tennessee Valley Authority

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First U.S. National Planning Board

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1933

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established FSLIC for insuring savings deposits and the FHA for insuring individual home mortgages.

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1934 The National Housing Act

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founded with Alfred Bettman as the first president.

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1934 American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO)

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First U.S. federally built housing for the general population

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1934

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established under Rexford Tugwell to carry out experiments in land reform and population resettlement.

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1935 Resettlement Administration

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First U.S. federally built new towns in peacetime: the "greenbelt" towns.

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1935-37

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first major federal legislative commitment to public housing.

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Housing Act of 1937

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"sector theory" is described in The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities.

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1939 Homer Hoyt's

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ACPI renamed American Institute of Planners (AIP).

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1939

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guarantees loans for homes to veterans under favorable terms.

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1944 Serviceman's Readjustment Act ("GI Bill")

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Construction of Park Forest, Illinois, and Levittown, New York, begin.

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1947

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first U.S. comprehensive housing legislation and also provided funding for urban redevelopment.

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1949 Housing Act (Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill)

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The National Trust for Historic Preservation

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1949

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the Urban Renewal program

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The Housing Act of 1954

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Image of the City basic elements of a city's "imageability".

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1960 Kevin Lynch

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first state to institute statewide zoning

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1961 Hawaii

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1961 The Death and Life of Great American

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Jane Jacobs

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First U.S. federal housing subsidy program

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1961

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outlaws discrimination based on race, creed, and national origin in places of public accommodation.

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1964 Civil Rights Act

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The Urban General Plan

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1964 T.J. Kent

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) created and Robert Weaver is the first Secretary.

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1965

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establishes the National Register of Historic Places and provides, through its Section 106, for the protection of preservation-worthy sites and properties threatened by federal activities. It also creates the national Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and directs states appoint a State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO).

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1966 The National Historic Preservation Act

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"model cities" program.

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1966 The Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development

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Design with Nature, linking planning to the natural environment.

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1969 Ian McHarg

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requires an environmental impact statement for every federal or federally aided state or major local action that may harm the environment.

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1969 National Environmental Policy Act

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established to administer the Clean Air Act also adopted in 1970.

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1970 Federal Environmental Protection Agency

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First major introduction of the transfer of development rights (TDR) concept

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1971 Chicago

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First rapid transit system

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1972 San Francisco Bay area.

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categorical grant with the block grant as the principal form of federal aid for local community development.

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1974 The Housing and Community Development Act

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American Institute of Planners (AIP) and American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) merge to become the American Planning Association (APA).

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1978

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The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that all 567 municipalities in the state must build their "fair share" of affordable housing.

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1983

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first federal transportation law to mandate planning

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1991 Passage of Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA)

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The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA)

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2000

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first time a proactive approach to disaster relief had been taken, including requirements for state and local entities to coordinate mitigation planning and implementation.

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2000