Early history of planning. Reviews events up to 1899.
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| What is the "White City"? Who designed it? When? | show 🗑
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| What is the planning significance of Central Park? Who was it designer & builder? | show 🗑
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| show | NYC Tenement Law of 1867 and a San Francisco ordinance that ended slaughter houses in 1867.
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| Why did the Public Health Movement die out? | show 🗑
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| show | The rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest was created to provide a systematic way to divide and distribute land to people. It is called the "largest single act of national planning in our history."
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| show | 1855
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| What was the "Homestead Act of 1862" | show 🗑
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| show | Federal legislation of 1862 that authorized land grants to the states so that they could use the proceeds to establish colleges in agriculture, engineering, and other "practical arts".
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| show | A 1867 report by the NY Council of Hygiene of the Citizen's Association. 15,000 tenements. Not effective due to lack of enforcement.
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| show | Required that all tenements have: 1) window or ventilation in every sleeping room, 2) a fire escape, 3) and "good and sufficient" water closets or privies, 4) be graded, drained, and connected to sewer
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| When was the 1st "Dumbbell" tenement built? What was it? | show 🗑
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| What was the Public Health Movement? | show 🗑
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| What prompted the founding of the Sierra Club? Year? By whom? | show 🗑
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| show | Ebenezer Howard's city design which extolled the virtue of nature over cities and sought a return to pre-industrial small villages. Letchworth & Welwyn.
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| What book is created with starting the Garden City Movement? Year? | show 🗑
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| What event propelled the City Beautiful Movement? Year? | show 🗑
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| What was the first zoning ordinance? When? | show 🗑
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| What book is created with starting housing reforms? | show 🗑
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