History of Planning (Day 1)

Question 1

What year was the first national planning conference held?

Answer 1

1909

Question 2

What was the name of the first national planning conference and which city was it held in?

Answer 2

National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief in Washington, D.C.

Question 3

What year was the first city planning course taught?

Answer 3

1909

Question 4

Where was the first city planning course taught?

Answer 4

Harvard’s landscaping architecture department

Question 5

Name the first known formal instruction book on city planning, introduced below the college level.

Answer 5

Wacker’s manual of the plan of Chicago

Question 6

Who published the Wacker’s manual of the plan of chicago?

Answer 6

Walter Moody

Question 7

What year did Walter Moody publish the Wacker’s manual of the plan of chicago?

Answer 7

1912

Question 8

What was the name of the first major textbook on city planning?

Answer 8

Carrying out the City Plan

Question 9

Who wrote the first major textbook of city planning?

Answer 9

Flavel Shurtleff

Question 10

When was the first textbook on city planning published?

Answer 10

1914

Question 11

In 1917, the ________________ was founded.

Answer 11

American City Planning Institute of Planners (ACPI)

Question 12

Who was the first president of ACPI?

Answer 12

Frederick Law Olmstead Jr.,

Question 13

What was the ACPI renamed to and in what year did it occur?

Answer 13

American Institute of Planners (AIP) in 1939

Question 14

When was the first issue of City Planning published and who were its authors?

Answer 14

1925, The ACPI and the National Conference on City Planning

Question 15

City planning is the predecessor of what current journal?

Answer 15

Journal of the American Planning Association

Question 16

What year was the American Society of Planning Officials founded?

Answer 16

1934

Question 17

When did the AIP adopt the Code of Ethics for professional planners?

Answer 17

1971

Question 18

What year was the first exam for AIP membership administered?

Answer 18

1977

Question 19

AIP and ASPO merged and created what organization? What year did the merger occur?

Answer 19

American Planning Association, in 1978

Question 20

In 1981 the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning published the first issue of __________________?

Answer 20

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Question 21

Which city passed the first land use zoning restriction on the location of noxious uses? What year did it happen in?

Answer 21

San Francisco, 1867

Question 22

The first local civic center plan was created for which city?

Answer 22

Cleveland

Question 23

What year was the first local civic center plan created?

Answer 23

1903

Question 24

Who was responsible of the first local civic center plan?

Answer 24

Daniel Burnham, Josh Carrere, and Arnold Brunner

Question 25

Which US city was the first to apply City Beautiful principles? And what year did it occur in?

Answer 25

San Francisco; 1906

Question 26

Who developed the plan with City Beautiful principles?

Answer 26

Daniel Burnham

Question 27

When and where was the first planning board created?

Answer 27

Hartford, Connecticut in 1907

Question 28

Daniel Burnham created the first metropolitan regional plan for what city and what year?

Answer 28

Chicago in 1909

Question 29

Who is Harland Bartholomew?

Answer 29

First full-time employee for the city planning commission of Newark, NJ

Question 30

What year was the first full-time employee for the city planning commission hired?

Answer 30

1914

Question 31

NYC adopted the first comprehensive zoning code, written by who and in what year?

Answer 31

Edward Bassett in 1916

Question 32

Secretary Hoover issued what major act in 1924?

Answer 32

the Standard Zoning Enabling Act

Question 33

Which city was the first to adopt a comprehensive plan? What year did it occurr?

Answer 33

Cincinnati in 1925

Question 34

Who produced the first comprehensive plan adopted by a major city?

Answer 34

Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe

Question 35

In 1928, Secretary Hoover released which major act?

Answer 35

Standard City Planning Enabling Act

Question 36

When was the first U.S. National Planning Board created?

Answer 36

1933

Question 37

What was the U.S National Planning Board renamed to and when was it abolished?

Answer 37

National Resources Planning Board and it was abolished in 1943.

Question 38

What year was the first federally supported public housing constructed and where?

Answer 38

1934 in Cleveland

Question 39

The first federally supported public housing was first occupied in which city?

Answer 39

Atlanta

Question 40

Which state was the first to introduce statewide zoning and in what year did it occur?

Answer 40

Hawaii, 1961