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Planning Timeline
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Established rectangular land survey of the old northwest in order to divide and distribute land | Land Ordinance of 1875 |
| Navigable route between New York City and the Atlantic Ocean | Erie Canal 1825 |
| 1st Federal Highway built by Fed Government in 1839 | The National Road |
| 1st Model Tenement was Constructed | Manhatten 1855 |
| Provided 10 acres or land and 5 years residence | Homestead Act 1862 |
| Allowed newly created western states to establish colleges | Morrill Act 1862 |
| 1st Zoning Ordinance in America restricting obnoxious uses | San Francisco 1867 |
| Regarded as the first Planned Community by Olmstead Sr, and Calvert Vaux | Riverside Illinois 1868 |
| Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines meet at Promontory Point Utah - 1st Transcontinental Railroad | 1869 |
| 1st National Park | Yellowstone 1872 |
| Central Park is completed | 1876 Olmsted add Vaux |
| Established to survey and classify all public lands | U.S. Geological Survey 1879 |
| Built by George Pullman - Model Industrial Town | Pullman, IL 1880 |
| 1st Skyscraper | Chicago 1884 |
| Grants President power to create forest preserves | General Land Law Revision Act 1891 |
| Promote the protection and preservation of the natural environment | Sierra Club - John Muir 1892 |
| Chicago Illinos 1893 | Worlds Columbian Exposition - Worlds Fair |
| 1st subway constructed | Boston 1897 |
| Chief Forester of Dept of Agriculture | 1898 Gifford Pinchot |
| Outlawed the dumbbell tenement - | 1901 New York State Tenement House Law |
| Redesigns L'Enfants Plan for Washington D.C. -includes National Mall | McMillian Plan - 1902 |
| 1st Garden City | Letchworth 1903 |
| 1st local Civic Center Plan in U.S - Daniel Burnham | Cleveland, Ohio 1903 |
| 1st City to use City Beautiful principles | San Fran 1906 |
| Founded by Benjamin Marsh - concerned with decentralizing dense population in New York | New York committee on the Congestion of Population |
| 1st Town Planning Board | Hartford, CT 1907 |
| 1st National Planning Conference | Washington D.C 1909 |
| 1st municipality to apply zoning to undeveloped land | Los Angeles 1909 |
| Daniel Burnham 1909 Published | Plan of Chicago |
| 1st state to pass legislation permitting cities to plan | Wisconsin |
| 1st limited access highway completed in 1913 | Bronx River Parkway |
| 1st U.S. Transcontinental Highway | Lincoln Highway 1913 |
| Panama Canal Completed | 1914 |
| 1st full time planner of a city planning dept | Harland Bartholomew - Newark, NJ |
| Adopted 1st Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance - Edward Bassett | New York City 1916 |
| Father of Zoning | Edward Bassett |
| National Park Service Established | 1916 |
| Founded in 1917 - Olmsted, JR first President | American City Planning Institute |
| Renamed in 1939 | American Institute of Planners |
| Regional Commissions - Sewer, Water, and Parks combined | Boston Metro District 1919 |
| 1st Historic Preservation Commission | New Orleans 1921 - Vieux Carre |
| 1st Historic Preservation Ordinance | Charleston 1921 |
| 1st Regional Planning Commission | Los Angeles County 1922 |
| U.S. Dept of Commerce - Herbert Hoover | Standard State Zoning Enabling Act SSZEA 1924 |
| Sunnyside Gardens Constructed - Stein and Wright | 1924 |
| Mariemont Ohio construction begins 1923 | John Nolen |
| 1st City to endorse a Comp Plan | Cincinnatti 1925 - Bassett and Sego |
| U.S. Dept of Commerce - Herbert Hoover | Standard City Planning Enabling Act SCPEA 1928 |
| Planned Community based on Howards Garden City concept designed by Stein and Wright - precursor to the New Deal Greenbelt Towns | Radburn, MJ |
| 1st instance or rural zoning | Wisconsin 1929 |
| Provide work opportunities while conserving Americas natural resources | CCC Civilian Conservation Corps |
| created in 1933 -Countrys famous experiment in River basin Planning | TVA |
| Founded in 1934 as an organization for planner, planning commissioners, and public officials | American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) |
| Established The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) - expanding housing construction jobs | Housing Act 1934 |
| Carry out experiments in population resettlement and land reform - result was development of Greenbelt Towns | 1835 Resettlement Administration - Rexford Tugwell |
| Hoover Dam | 1936 |
| 1935 Secretary of Interior to identify, acquire, and restore historic sites and properties | Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act |
| Development of low cost housing - and tied slum clearance to public housing | Housing Act 1937 also Wagner-Steagall Act |
| largest concrete structure in world | Grand Coulee Dam 1941 |
| Guarantee's home loans to veterans and is catalyst to suburbanization | 1944 - Servicemen's Readjustment Act -GI Bill |
| Created in 1947 to oversee US Housing Programs | Housing and Home Financing Agency - predecessor to HUD |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation Created | 1949 |
| Construction of 800,000 new housing units and created the federal urban renewal program | Housing Act of 1949 |
| Targeted slum prevention and urban renewal rather than slum clearance | Housing Act of 1964 |
| Interstate System was formed | Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 - National Interstate and Defense highways Act |
| 1st State to institute statewide Zoning | Hawaii |
| Discrimination based on race, creed, and national origin in place of public accomodation illegal | Civil Rights Act 1964 |
| Robert Weaver 1st Secretary | 1965 HUD Created Housing and Urban Development Act |
| Section 106 Protects historic sites and State Historic Preservation Offices | 1966 National Historic Preservation Act - National Register of Historic Places |
| Construction of 6 million subsidized housing units | Housing and Urban Development Act 1968 |
| Requires environmental impact statement for federally aided projects | National Environmental Policy Act NEPA |
| 1st Earth Day Held - | January 1 1970 |
| Established to administer Clean Air Act | EPA 1970 |
| Adopts Code of Ethics | 1971 American Institute of Planners |
| 1st Exam for AIP Membership | 1977 |
| Federal assistance to state and locals to establish conservation programs for endangered plants and animal species | 1973 Endangered Species Act |
| CDBG Granted Program Created | 1974 |
| APA Created | 1978 by merging AIP and ASPO |
| FEMA was Created | 1979 |
| New Urbanist Town Seaside, FL | 1984 |
| Superfund Bill Passed in Congress | 1980 |
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