English Garden Cities, American Suburbanization and Regionalism (1900s - 1920s)
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| 1898 | "Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform", by Ebenezer Howard. A source of the Garden City Movement. Reissued in 1902 as "Garden Cities of Tomorrow". (Landmark Publication)
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| 1903 | Letchworth constructed. First English Garden City and a stimulus to New Town movement in America.
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| 1903 | President Theodore Roosevelt appoints a Public Lands Commission to propose rules for orderly land development and management.
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| 1915 | Patrick Geddes, "Father of Regional Planning" and mentor of Lewis Mumford, publishes "Cities in Evolution"
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| 1916 | Nelson P. Lewis published "Planning of the Modern City"
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| 1916 | 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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| 1916 | National Park Service established with sole responsibility for conserving and preserving resources of special value.
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| 1917 | Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. becomes first president of newly founded American city Planning Institute, forerunner of American Institute of Planners and American Institute of Certified Planners.
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| 1918 | US Housing Corporation and Emergency Fleet Corporation established. Influenced later endeavors in public housing. Operated at major shipping centers to provide housing for WWI workers. (Housing, Landmark Laws)
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| 1919 | Three early unifunctional regional authorities -- the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, the Metropolitan Water Board and the Metropolitan Park Commission -- combined to form the Boston Metropolitan District Commission. (Regional Planning)
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| 1922 | Inauguration of Regional Plan of New York under Thomas Adams.
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| 1923 | Construction of Mairemont, Ohio - suburban Cincinnati. Mary Emery was its founder and benefactor; John Nolen, the planner. Some features (short blocks, mixture of rental and owner-occupied housing) foreshadow the contemporary New Urbanism Movement.
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