click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
00_AICP - History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| World Exposition | 1893, Chicago, "White City", City Beautiful, Daniel Burnham & FLO, |
| 1st National Conference on Planning | 1909, Washington DC, roots of APA |
| Evolution of APA** | 1909- 1st national conf 1917 - American City of Planning Inst (ACPI) 1934 - American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) 1939 - ACPI becomes American Institute of Planners (AIP) 1978 - AIP + ASPO = APA 1999 - AICP Fellows |
| First LU Zoning Ordinance ** | Los Angeles, 1909 |
| First Model Tenement | 1855 |
| First National Park | Yellowstone, 1872 |
| First Planning Board/commission** | Hartford, CT, 1907 |
| First Planning School | Harvard, 1929 |
| First course in City Planning | 1909, harvard |
| First skyscraper | Chicago, 1885 |
| First Statewide Zoning** | Hawaii, 1961. Still the only statewide zoning. |
| First Census | 1790 |
| First Zoning Ordinance ** | 1916, NYC, Basset |
| US Forest Service | Est. 1905 |
| First historic district/ordinance ** | 1929/1931, Charleston (spurred by gas station proposal) |
| First historic commission ** | 1937, NOLA, Vieux Carre Comm (technically started in 1925 but was advisory only) |
| First FBC | Miami 21 |
| Broadacre City** | 1932, FLW, 4 sq miles of low density, everyone has their own acre of land, only reachable by car (opposite of TOD), model for suburbia |
| law of indies | Roman Grid/Vitruvian Model, layouts for roman military encampments, 4 quadrants with cross axis. used by the spanish called law of indies, used layout in the building of "pueblos" - grid system |
| philadelphia plan | 1682, Will Pen, grids and parks, central square with public bldgs, four quadrants with green space |
| Annapolis plan | 1695, radiocentric, Francis nicholson, two circles with a system of radial streets extending outwards |
| savannah plan | 1733, james oglethorpe, basic design unit of the "ward", each with 4 large residential blocks (10 homes each) and 4 small commercial blocks around a central square. |
| ordinance of 1785 | PLSS began, the largest single act of national planning in history, govt to sell off land to pay debts from revolutionary war |
| 1791 Washington Plan | Pierre LEnfant, grids and radials, most streets in grid bisected by special radial streets. |
| mcmillan commission | 1902, senator mcmillan commissioned plans to reowork DCs monumental core (The Mall) in City Beautiful style. influenced many other major US cities |
| influences of expansion | 1825 erie canal 1849/69 gold rush and transcontinental RR 1862 Homestead (permitted settlers to claim 160 acres if they use it for 5 years) and Morrill Acts (sale of public lands could fund land grant colleges |
| first suburb | 1869 Riverside, Chicago, Olmstead & Vaux. |
| Old NY tenement act (#2) | 1879 - required windows to open air, restrooms on each floor - dumbbell tenements. |
| Pullman, IL | 1880 - george pullman, first company town. innovative for it's time with indoor plumbing, conduct rules and only rentals |
| 1901 New NY Tenement House law | outlawed dumbbell tenements "NEW" |
| 1909 plan of chicago | burnham and bennett, city beautiful, waterfront parks and prominent civic bldgs, largely unimplemented |
| Radburn | 1929, stein and wright, used garden city |
| TVA | 1933, senator norris, first regional agency, flood protection and eco dev in tenn valley. |
| GI Bill | 1950s, postwar return, people wanted and had $ for homes (subsidies for veterans) and cars, stimulated developments like Levittown. mass |
| Sunbelt migration | 50s-70s, expansion of interstate and normalizing AC |
| Great Society | Johnson, |
| Greensward plan | central park, olmsted and vaux, 1858, parks movement |
| 1st state enabling legislation | wisconsin, 1909 |
| 1st comp plan | 1925, cincinatti, bettman |
| Riverside, IL | 1st suburban community, 1869 Vaux & Olmsted, designated natl landmark in 1970, curvilinear streets. |
| 1st subway | boston, 1897 |