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AICP 2011 Timeline of American Planning History 1900-1930

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The legislative basis for the revision of city codes that outlawed tenements such as the "Dumbbell Tenement." Lawrence Veiller was the leading reformer.   show
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Created fund from sale of public land in the arid states to supply water there through the construction of water storage and irrigation works.   show
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show Letchworth 1903  
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show Public Lands Commission 1903  
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show Antiquities Act of 1906  
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Fostered movement, led by its secretary, Benjamin Marsh, to decentralize New York's dense population   show
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show Inland Waterway Commission 1907  
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show White House Conservation Conference 1908  
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show Washington, DC 1909  
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show Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago 1909  
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show James Sturgis Pray 1909  
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show Welch v. Swasey 1909  
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Published by Frederick Winslow Taylor. fountainhead of the efficiency movements in this country, including efficiency in city government.   show
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Walter D. Moody's book is adopted as an eigthgrade textbook on City Planning by the Chicago Board of Education. Possibly the first formal instruction in city planning below the college level.   show
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show Charles Mulford Robinson 1913  
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show Carrying Out the City Plan 1914  
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Completed and opened to world commerce.   show
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eventually the country's best known planning consultant, becomes the first full-time employee in Newark, New Jersey, of a city planning commission.   show
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the US Supreme Court upheld a municipal regulation that governed the placement of land uses.   show
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show Cities in Evolution 1915  
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show Planning of the Modern City 1916  
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show Nation's first comprehensive zoning resolution. 1916  
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established with sole responsibility for conserving and preserving resources of special value.   show
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first president of newly founded American City Planning Institute, forerunner of American Institute of Planners and American Institute of Certified Planners.   show
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Influenced later endeavors in public housing. Operated at major shipping centers to provide housing for World War I workers.   show
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Formed by the combination of three early unifunctional regional authorities--the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, the Metropolitan Water Board and the Metropolitan Park Commission--   show
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show Vieux Carre Commission 1921  
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First of its kind in the United States. (Hugh Pomeroy, head of staff.)   show
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Inaugurated under Thomas Adams.   show
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Development in suburban Cincinnati.Mary Emery was its founder and benefactor; John Nolen, the planner. Some of its features (short blocks, mixture of rental and owner-occupied housing) foreshadow the contemporary New Urbanism movement.   show
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show Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon. 1922  
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Issued by U.S. Department of Commerce under Secretary Herbert Hoover   show
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a planned neighborhood designed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright, is built by City Housing Corporation under Alexander Bing in Queens, New York.   show
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influential essays on regional planning by Lewis Mumford and other members of the Regional Planning Association of America (e.g., Catherine Bauer).   show
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show Cincinnati, Ohio 1925  
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show Ernest Burgess 1925  
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show Vol. 1, No. 1 of City Planning 1925  
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Constitutionality of zoning upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. (Case argued by Alfred Bettman.)   show
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Issued by Dept of Commerce under Secretary Herbert Hoover.   show
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Monograph by Robert Haig published in Volume I of The Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs. Viewed land use as a function of accessibility.   show
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show Nectow v. City of Cambridge 1928  
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show Radburn, New Jersey 1928  
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show Clarence Perry's Neighborhood Unit 1929  
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Wisconsin law authorized county boards "to regulate, restrict and determine the areas within which agriculture, forestry and recreation may be conducted."   show
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Stock market crash in October ushers in Great Depression and fosters ideas of public planning on a national scale.   show
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