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| 1960 | Image of the City by Kevin Lynch defines basic elements of city's "imageability" (paths, edges, nodes, etc.). |
| 1961 | The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, includes a critique of planning and planners. |
| 1961 | Richard Hedman and Fred Bair publish And On the Eighth Day, a hilarious book of cartoons poking fun at the planning profession by two of our own. |
| 1961 | Hawaii becomes first state to institute statewide zoning. |
| 1961 | A Delaware River Basin Commission representing the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is created to foster joint management of the river's water resources. |
| 1962 | The urban growth simulation model emerges in the Penn-Jersey Transportation Study. |
| 1962 | "A Choice Theory of Planning," seminal article in AIP Journal by Paul Davidoff and Thomas Reiner, lays basis for advocacy planning concept. |
| 1962 | Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring is published and wakes the nation to the deleterious effects of pesticides on animal, plant and human life. |
| 1962 | The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors establishes Virginia's first residential planned
community zone, clearing the way for the creation of Reston, a full-scale, self-contained New Town 18 miles from Washington, D.C. |
| 1963 | Columbia, Maryland, a new town situated about halfway between Washington and Baltimore, featuring some class integration and the neighborhood principle. |
| 1964 | T.J. Kent publishes The Urban General Plan. |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination based on race, creed, and national origin in places of public accommodation. |
| 1964 | The Federal Bulldozer by Martin Anderson indicts then-current urban renewal program as counterproductive to its professed aims of increased low- and middle-income housing supply. With Herbert Gans's The Urban Villagers (1962), a study of the consequences |
| 1964 | In a commencement speech at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon Johnson declares war on poverty and urges congressional authorization of many remedial programs, plus the establishment of a cabinet-level Department of Housing and Community Develop |
| 1965 | A White House Conference on Natural Beauty in America is convened on May 24 and 25, owing much to the interest and advocacy of the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson. |
| 1965 | Housing and urban policy achieve cabinet status when the Housing and Home Finance Agency is succeeded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Robert Weaver becomes HUD's first Secretary and nation's first African-American cabinet member. |
| 1965 | Congress passes the Water Resources Management Act authorizing Federal-Multistate river basin commissions. |
| 1965 | The Public Work and Economic Development Act passes Congress. This act establishes the Economic Development Administration to extend coordinated, multifaceted aid to lagging regions and foster their redevelopment. |
| 1965 | The Appalachian Regional Planning Act establishes a region comprising all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states, plus a planning commission with the power to frame plans and allocate resources. |
| 1965 | John Reps publishes The Making of Urban America, the first comprehensive history of American urban planning beginning with colonial times. |
| 1966 | The Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act launched the "model cities" program, an interdisciplinary attack on urban blight and poverty. A centerpiece of President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" program. |
| 1966 | With Heritage So Rich, a seminal historic preservation book, is published. |
| 1966 | National Historic Preservation Act passed. 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. This act also creates t |
| 1966 | Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act provides protection to parkland, wildlife refuges, and other preservation-worthy resources in building national roads. Unlike parkland and wildlife refuges, however, privately owned historic sites as we |
| 1967 | The planning profession reaches its 50th anniversary with a celebratory conference in Washington, D.C. Many of the earliest practitioners and founders of the profession attend together with eminent leaders of other professions. |
| 1967 | The "(Louis B.) Wetmore Amendment" drops the final phrase in the 1938 AIP declaration of purpose which tied it to the comprehensive arrangement and regulation of land use. The effect is to broaden the scope and membership of the profession by including "s |
| 1968 | To implement Intergovernmental Relations Act of 1968 the Office of Management and Budget issues Circular A-95 requiring state and substate regional clearinghouses to review and comment on federally assisted projects to facilitate coordination among the th |
| 1969 | Ian McHarg publishes Design with Nature, tying planning to the natural environment. |
| 1969 | National Environmental Policy Act requires an "environmental impact statement" for every federal or federally aided state or local major action that might significantly harm the environment. |
| 1969 | Mel Scott publishes American City Planning Since 1890. Reissued in 1995 by the American Planning Association. |
| 1970 | First "Earth Day," January 1. |
| 1970 | Federal Environment Protection Agency established to administer main provisions of the Clean Air Act (1970) 2.0.50727) |
| 1970 | The Miami Valley (Ohio) Regional Planning Commission Housing Plan is adopted, the first such plan in the nation to allocate low- and moderate-income housing on a "fair share" basis. |
| 1971 | AIP adopts a Code of Ethics for professional planners. |
| 1972 | Coastal Zone Management Act adopted. |
| 1972 | General revenue sharing inaugurated under the U.S. State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act.ack.com |
| 1972 | In Golden v. Planning Board of Ramapo, New York high court allows the use of performance criteria as a means of slowing community growth. |
| 1972 | Demolition of St. Louis's notorious Pruitt-Igoe Project symbolizes a nationwide move away from massive, isolating, high-rise structures to a more humane form of public housing architecture: low-rise, less isolated, dispersed. |
| 1973 | Endangered Species Act. Authorized Federal assistance to state and local jurisdictions to establish conservation programs for endangers plant and animal species. |
| 1974 | The Housing and Community Development Act replaces the categorical grant with the block grant as the principal form of federal aid for local community development. |
| 1975 | Cleveland Policy Plan Report shifts emphasis from traditional land-use planning to advocacy planning. |
| 1976 | Historic Preservation Fund established. |
| 1977 | First exam for AIP membership conducted. |
| 1978 | Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York, 438 U.S. 104 (1978): U.S. Supreme Court upholds New York City's Landmark Preservation Law as applied to Grand Central Terminal. Court found that barring some development of air rights was not a taking. |
| 1978 | American Institute of Planners (AIP) and American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) merge to become American Planning Association (APA). |
| 1980 | "Reagan Revolution" begins. Planning profession challenged to adapt to a new (counter-New Deal) policy environment: reduced federal domestic spending, privatization, deregulation, etc. Phase-out of some earlier aids to planning (e.g., sewer grants) and pl |
| 1980 | Superfund Bill passed by Congress (Comprehensive Response, Compensation and Liability Act). Creates liability for persons discharging hazardous waste into the environment. Taxes polluting industries to establish a trust fund for the cleanup of polluted si |
| 1980 | The Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) is established to represent the academic branch of the planning profession. |
| 1981 | ACSP issues Volume 1, Number 1 of The Journal of Education and Planning Research. |
| 1983 | In a case focusing on Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, the New Jersey Supreme Court rules that all 567 municipalities in the state must build their "fair share" of affordable housing. A precedent-setting blow against racial segregation. |
| 1984 | Construction begins on Seaside, Florida, one of the earliest examples of the New Urbanism. (Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk). Unlike most earlier planned communities, the New Urbanism emphasizes urban features -- compactness, walkability, mixed u |
| 1986 | The First National Conference on American Planning History is convened in Columbus, Ohio and leads to the founding of the Society 0f American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) the following year.ÿÿÿ |
| 1987 | In First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles, U.S. Supreme Court finds that even a temporary taking requires compensation. In Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, it finds that land-use restrictions, to be valid, must be tied |
| 1989 | The Planning Accreditation Board (PAB) is recognized by the Washington-based Council on Post Secondary Education to be the sole accrediting agency in the field of professional planning education. |
| 1991 | Passage of Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) includes provisions for a National Scenic Byways Program and for transportation enhancements, each of which includes a historic preservation component. |
| 1992 | In Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, the U.S. Supreme Court limits local and state governments' ability to restrict private property without compensation. |
| 1993 | Enterprise Zone/Empowerment Community (EZ/EC) proposal signed into law. Aims tax incentives, wage tax credits, special deductions, and low-interest financing to a number of poor urban and rural communities to jumpstart their economic and social recovery |
| 1994 | In Dolan v. City of Tigard, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that a jurisdiction must show that there is a "rough proportionality " between the adverse impacts of a proposed development and the exactions it wishes to impose on the developer. |
| 1994 | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) among U.S., Canada and Mexico begins on January 1, its purpose to foster trade and investment among the three nations by removing or lowering non-tariff as well as tariff barriers. |
| 1999 | American Institute of Certified Planners inaugurates a College of Fellows to recognize distinguished individual contributions by longer term AICP members. |
| 2000 | President Clinton Creates 8 new national monuments in 5 western states: Canyons of the Ancients (Colorado); Cascade-Siskiyou (Oregon); Hanford Reach (Washington); Ironwood Forest, Grand Canyon-Parashant, Agua Fria (Arizona); Grand Sequoia, California Coas |
