Growth, Race, Class Word Scramble
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1954 | In Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas), Supreme court upholds school integration. |
1959 | Congress establishes the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR), with members from various branches of government. Serves primarily as a research agency and think tank in area of intergovernmental relations. |
1959 | The American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ASCP) is born when a few department heads of planning schools get together at the annual ASIP conference to confer on common problems and interests regarding the education of planners. |
1957 | "Education for Planning". A seminal, book-length inquiry by Harvey S. Perloff into the "appropriate intellectual, practical and philosophical basis for the education of city and regional planners". |
1959 | The St. Lawrence Seaway is completed. This joint US-Canada project created, in effect, a fourth North American seacoast, opening the American heartland to sea-going vessels. |
1960 | "Image of the City" by Kevin Lynch defines basic elements of city's "imageability" (paths, edges, nodes, etc.) |
1961 | "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs. Includes a critique of planning and planners. Greenwich Village, NY. |
1961 | Richard Hedman and Fred Bair public "And On the Eighth Day", a hilarious book of cartoons poking fun at the planning profession by two of our own. |
1961 | Hawaii becomes the first state to institute statewide zoning. |
1961 | A Delaware River Basin Commission representing the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is created to foster joint management of the river's water resources. |
1962 | The urban growth simulation model emerges in the Penn-Jersey Transportation Study |
1963 | Columbia, Maryland, a new town situated about halfway between Washington and Baltimore, feature some class integration and the neighborhood principle. |
1964 | Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination based on race, creed, and national origin in public places. |
1964 | "The Federal Bulldozer" by Martin Anderson indicts then-current urban renewal program as counterproductive to its professed aims of increased low- and middle-income housing supply. |
1964 | Similar to "The Federal Bulldozer", Herbert Gans's "The Urban Villagers" (1962), was a study of the consequences for community life in a Boston West End Italian-American community, contributes to a change in urban policy. |
1964 | In a commencement speech at the University of Michigan, Prsident Lyndon Johnson declares war on poverty and urges congressional authorization of many remedial programs, plus the establishment of a cabinet-level Dept. of Housing and Community Development. |
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