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Timeline of American Planning History , 1900-1919

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show New York State Tenement House Law. The legislative basis for the revision of city codes that outlawed tenements such as the "Dumbbell Tenement." Lawrence Veiller was the leading reformer.  
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show Letchworth constructed. First English Garden City and a stimulus to New Town movement in America (Greenbelt Towns, Columbia, etc.).  
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show Antiquities AcT: First law to institute federal protection for preserving archaeological sites. Provided for designation as National Monuments areas already in the public domain  
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show Frederick Winslow Taylor publishes The Principles of Scientific Management, fountainhead of the efficiency movements in this country, including efficiency in city government.  
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show Walter D. Moody's "Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago" is adopted as an eigth-grade textbook on City Planning by the Chicago Board of Education. Possibly the first formal instruction in city planning below the college level.  
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show A chair in Civic Design, first of its kind in the U.S., is created in the University of Illinois's Department of Horticulture for Charles Mulford Robinson, one of the principal promoters of the World's Columbian Exposition.  
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show Flavel Shurtleff writes Carrying Out the City Plan, the first major textbook on city planning.  
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show Panama Canal completed and opened to world commerce.  
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show Patrick Geddes, "Father of Regional Planning" and mentor of Lewis Mumford, publishes Cities in Evolution.  
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show Nelson P. Lewis published Planning of the Modern City.  
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show Nation's first comprehensive zoning resolution adopted by New York City Board of Estimates under the leadership of George McAneny and Edward Bassett, known as the "Father of Zoning."  
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show National Park Service established with sole responsibility for conserving and preserving resources of special value.  
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