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show The 1st national planning conference was held in 1909 as the "National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief" in Washington, DC. In the same year, the first city planning course was taught in Harvard's Landscape Architecture Department.  
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show Walter Moody published "Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago, IL" in 1912. Adopted as the 8th grade textbook by the Chicago Board of Education.  
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show Flavel Shurtleff wrote "Carrying Out the City Plan", the 1st major textbook on city planning. 1914  
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Who founded the AIP and when?   show
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show 1925  
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show 1934  
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show 1971  
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show 1977  
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show The American Planning Association -- 1978  
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show The Journal of Planning Education and Research -- 1981  
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Burnham Plan of 1909 is AKA....   show
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The project's goals was reclaiming the lakefront for the public and increasing the park areas and public playgrounds.   show
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First new town in America? Who co-designed it and when?   show
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The "Ford-Goodrich Plan of 1925" was AKA and located where?   show
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First auto-oriented suburban shopping center was located where? Who built it and when?   show
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show Euclid, OH. v. Ambler Realty Co., USSC: 1926  
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Landmark case; developer owned 68 acres. The city had developed a zoning ordinance that prevented developer from full use of his property. As a result, the developer sued, siting that the zoning ordinance 'devalued' his property. The city prevailed.   show
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show USSC sided with Euclid. The Court argued that the zoning ordinance was not an unreasonable extension of the village's police power and did not have the character of arbitrary fiat, and thus it was not unconstitutional.  
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What was the first comprehensive zoning code in the US and when?   show
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Plan of Riverside, IL.: this plan was designed by who and when?   show
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FL Olmstead, SR. designed what in 1869?   show
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show 1869, Riverside, IL.  
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show 1867  
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Plan of Washington DC was founded?   show
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show Pierre L Enfant  
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Pierre L'Enfant designed.... and was a ..... plan   show
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Plan of Savannah, GA was designed in ...?   show
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show Original ward system, with a central square, was followed in later development. Rare example of early city growth design in America.  
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Forest Hills Gardens was located in? What year?   show
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show Forest Hills Garden, Long Island, NY  
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show Fairlawn, NJ  
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show Clarence Stein and Henry Wright (City for the motor age). Radburn established the superblock, with center-block paths, as a model for residential site planning.  
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show 1933. It was seen as a demonstration of the green belt town idea.  
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show Yellowstone NP -- 1872  
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show 1857: FL Olmstead, Sr. and Calvert Vaux. Central Park became the model for large urban parks throughout the country.  
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show Ed Bassett  
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Alfred Bettman played a key role in the devlopment of what plan?   show
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Alfred Bettman assisted in which landmark USSC Case?   show
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Who was a Cincinnati, OH lawyer?   show
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show Daniel H. Burnham  
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Who designed the Plan of Chicago? What year was the plan designed?   show
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Who developed the concept of "advocacy planner"?   show
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show The Suburban Action Institute in 1969  
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show Patrick Geddes (1854-1932)  
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show Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928)  
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Garden Cities of Tomorrow was written in ? by?   show
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show 1898, later had a book re-issued in 1902; Ebenezer Howard  
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show Jane Jacobs -- 1961  
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show The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs -- 1961  
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show The Urban General Plan -- 1917  
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Author of "Image of the City"?   show
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show "Public opinion has favored development almost irrespective of the cost of the environment."  
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Who wrote, "Design with Nature"?   show
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Who was the father of Modern Ecology and the Environmental Movement?   show
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Mumford Lewis wrote...?   show
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FL Olmstead Sr. was Co-designer of ...?   show
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FL Olmstead, Jr. was a designer of....   show
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show FL Olmstead Jr.  
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show Clarence Arthur Perry  
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Neighborhood Unit Concept was introduced by?   show
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show George Pullman  
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George Pullman designed what town?   show
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This person used photography and writing to reveal the terrible conditions of the urban poor. This was also the basis of the book entitled...?   show
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Jacob Riis was a ....?   show
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show Charlotte Rumbold, 1919  
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This person won legislative support for planning enabling laws, zoning and subdivision regulations, and public housing. What year and who?   show
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The "Greenwhich House" is located in...? what is it?   show
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show Mary K. Simkhovitch (1867-1951)  
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show Clarence Stein  
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show Catherine Bauer Wurster. Considered a key housing reformer of the 20th Century.  
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show Attributed to the lack of low cost housing to the liberal intellectuals, trade unions, and planners. Housing reformer in the 20th century.  
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"Broadacre City - A New Community Plan" was written by? yr.?   show
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"Design with Nature" written by?   show
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show How the other half lives (1890)  
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show Sherry Arnstein  
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The original 18th century plan for Washington DC was developed by:   show
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Between 1860-70 in the US, saw the beginning of suburbanization with the creation of small settlements beyond larger cities. What city exemplified the early American planning movement?   show
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The ordinance of 1785 did what?   show
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Who created the "White City"? Where was it?   show
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show "Make no small plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood"  
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World's Columbian Expo was held when and where?   show
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Garden Cities were designed to ...   show
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show 14th amendment; 1926  
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Landmark USSC case that upheld zoning as being constitutional under the US Constitution, as being with in the police power of the state   show
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Village of Euclid, OH v. Ambler Realty   show
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show Law amended to require all citieis and counties to prepare General Plans.  
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National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was created in?   show
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show 1970 (Reagan)  
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Coastal Zone Managment Act was passed in....?   show
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show Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. United States federal law that posed a major change to transportation planning and policy, as the first US federal legislation on the subject in the post-Interstate Hwy System era.  
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Who is known for their involvement in advocacy planning? This person actively promoted the use of advocacy planning by planners.   show
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Who wrote "Garden Cities of Tomorrow" and was responsible for the development of two garden cities in England?   show
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