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AICP

AICP Study Flashcards

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What is the Ordinance of 1785? Rectangular land survey of the old northwest. "largest single act of national planning in our history"
When was the first model tenement built in NYC? 1855
What is the Homestead Act of 1862? Opened public lands to settlement with small fee and five years of residence / improvement. Opened the west.
What did the New York Council of Hygiene of the Citizens Association do? Campaigned to raise housing and sanitary conditions. 1864.
What is the Tenement House Law of 1867? Nation's first comprehensive housing reform. First standards for minimum room size, ventilation, sanitation. Required fire escape and 1 toilet (could be outside) for every 20 residents.
What / when / where was the first zoning regulation? 1867. San Francisco. Prohibits specific obnoxious uses in certain districts.
What is the Tenement Reform Law of 1879? Required light / ventilation. Dumbbell Tenements resulted. "Old Law Tenements"
Pullman, Illinois Model industrial town / company town built for Pullman train car workers, outside Chicago. Built 1880-1884. George Pullman.
"How the Other Half Lives" 1890. Jacob Riis. Stimulated housing reform.
World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 Chicago. Daniel Burnham. White City. Launched City Beautiful movement. Beaux Arts style.
Garden Cities 1898 "Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform." 1902 - "Garden Cities of Tomorrow." Ebenezer Howard. Residences / Industry / Agriculture / greenbelts. Letchworth, (1903), Welwyn. Forest Hills, Queens (1908). Mariemount, OH (1923). Radburn, NJ (1929).
New York State Tenement House Law (1901) New Law Tenements. Outlawed dumbbell tenements.
Plan for San Francisco, 1906 Daniel Burnham. 1st application of City Beautiful principles to a major American city.
Where / when was the first comprehensive city survey? Pittsburgh, 1907
Where / when was the first planning board? Hartford, Connecticut. 1907.
When / where was the first National Conference on City Planning? 1909, Washington D.C.
When / where was the first State Enabling Act passed? 1909, Wisconsin.
What was the first metropolitan regional plan? 1909 Plan of Chicago. Daniel Burnham.
First major American textbook on planning? "Carrying Out the City Plan." Flavel Shurtleff. 1913.
First full time municipal planner? Harland Bartholomew. 1914. Newark, NJ.
"Cities in Evolution" Patrick Geddes. 1915. Regional Planning theory. "Valley Section".
National Park Service Established 1916.
First Comprehensive Zoning resolution 1916. New York City Board of Estimates. Edward Bassett & George McAneny.
First Federal Highway Act 1916
First Regional Functional Plan 1916. Miami Conservancy District, Ohio.
American City Planning Institute 1917. Frederick Law Olmsted = First President. Forerunner of American Institute of Planners and AICP.
Boston Metropolitan District Commission 1919. 3 regional authorities create first combined district commission. Metro Sewerage Commission + Water Board + Park Commission.
Vieux Carre Commission 1921. First historic preservation commission in US. New Orleans.
Port Authority of New York 1921. First bi-state functional authority.
Standard State Zoning Enabling Act 1924. US Department of Commerce.
First Comprehensive Plan adopted by major American City 1925. Cincinnati, Ohio
Concentric Zone Model 1925. Ernest Burgess.
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty 1926. Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of zoning.
Standard City Planning Enabling Act 1928. US Department of Commerce.
The Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs 1929. Clarence Perry.
1933 New Deal. Federal Emergency Relief Administration - Harry Hopkins. Home Owners Loan Corporation. Tennessee Valley Authority. 1st US National Planning Board.
Home Owners Loan Corporation 1933. Established to help homeowners facing foreclosures.
Tennessee Valley Authority 1933. First large-scale regional program for economic, social, physical planning by federal government. Rehabilitate and redevelop Tennessee Valley.
National Housing Act of 1934 FHA - home mortgage insurance. FSLIC - savings deposit insurance. 1st public housing built.
American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) Established 1934. Alfred Bettman = 1st president.
Resettlement Administration 1935. Rexford Tugwell. Land reform. Population resettlement.
Greenbelt Towns 1935-1937. 1st federally built "New Towns".
Housing Act of 1937
Sector Theory 1939. Homer Hoyt. "The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities."
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