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Planning Landmarks
Term | Definition |
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1st National Park | Yellowstone (1872) |
1st National Wildlife Refuge | Pelican Island, FL (1903) |
1st city subway | Boston (1897) |
1st US Transcontinental Highway | Lincoln Highway (dedicated 1913) |
1st limited access highway | Bronx River Parkway (1926) |
1st city zoning ordinance | New York City (1916); New York City adopted the country's first comprehensive zoning ordinance in 1916, later upheld in 1920 in Lincoln Trust Co. v. The Williams Bldg. Corp |
1st comprehensive plan | Cincinnati (1925) |
1st skyscraper | Chicago (1884) |
1st planning commission | Hartford, CT (1907) |
1st historic preservation commission | Vieux Carre, New Orleans (1921) |
1st historic preservation ordinance | Charleston (1921) |
1st regional planning commission | Los Angeles County (1922) |
1st National Planning Conference | 1909 Washington, D.C. |
American City Planning Institute | 1917 |
American Society of Planning Officials | 1934 Alfred Bettman was elected its first president |
ACPI becomes American Institute of Planners | 1939 |
APA = AIP + ASPO | 1978 |
APA Membesrhip | APA has 40,000 members nationally, of which more than 15,000 are certified planners |