AICP 2011 Timeline of American Planning History prior to 1900
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| William Penn lays out the City of Philadelphia in a grid pattern with five public squares to serve the populace in his “holy experiment” | show 🗑
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| show | Ordinance of 1785
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| Alexander Hamilton argues for protective tariffs for manufacturing industry as a means of promoting industrial development in the young republic. | show 🗑
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| show | The American System 1818
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| This artificial waterway connected the northeastern states with the newly settled areas of what was then the West, facilitating the economic development of both regions. | show 🗑
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| Terminates in Vandalia, Illinois. Begun in 1811 in Cumberland, Maryland, it helps open the Ohio Valley to settlers. | show 🗑
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| show | New York 1855
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| Opened the lands of the Public Domain to settlers for a nominal fee and five years residence. | show 🗑
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| show | Morrill Act 1862
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| Mounts a campaign to raise housing and sanitary standards. | show 🗑
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| show | Riverside, IL 1868
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| show | First transcontinental railroad 1869
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| show | Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States 1878
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| In this influential book Henry George presents an argument for diminishing extremes of national wealth and poverty by means of a single tax (on land) that would capture the "unearned increment" of national development for public uses. | show 🗑
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| show | Dumbbell tenement 1879
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| Established to survey and classify all Public Domain lands. | show 🗑
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| Model industrial town built by George Pullman. | show 🗑
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| show | Mugler v. Kansas 1887
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| show | How the Other Half Lives 1890
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| gave President power to create forest preserves by proclamation. | show 🗑
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| show | Sierra Club 1892
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| show | Columbian Exposition 1893
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| show | United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co. 1896
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| Authorized some control by the Secretary of the Interior over the use and occupancy of the forest preserves. | show 🗑
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| show | Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform 1898
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| show | Gifford Pinchot 1898
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