HISTORY - History of Planning Profession - FPK

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First National Planning Conference

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1909, held at the National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief in Washington, D.C.

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First City Planning Course

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1909, the first city planning course was taught in Harvard’s Landscape Architecture Department.

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Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago

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1912, Walter Moody. Adopted as an eighth-grade textbook by the Chicago Board of Education. This is the first known formal instruction in city planning below the college level.

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Carrying Out the City Plan

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1914, Flavel Shurtleff. The first major textbook on city planning.

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American City Planning Institute of Planners (ACIP)

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Founded in 1917. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., was ACIP’s first president.

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American Institute of Planners (AIP)

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1939 renaming of American City Planning Institute of Planners (ACIP)

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First issue of City Planning

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In 1925, published by the American City Planning Institute and the National Conference on City Planning This was the predecessor to the current Journal of the American Planning Association.

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American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO)

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Founded 1934

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Code of Ethics

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Adopted by AIP in 1971

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First exam for AIP membership

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Administered in 1977

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American Planning Association was created

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1978, merger of AIP and ASPO

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The Journal of Planning Education and Research.

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1981, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning published

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First land use zoning restrictions on the location of noxious uses.

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1867, San Francisco

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First local civic center plan in the U.S.

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1903, Cleveland. Daniel Burnham, John Carrere, and Arnold Brunner led the development.

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First major American city to apply City Beautiful principles

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1906, San Francisco. Daniel Burnham developed.

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First town planning board

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1907, Hartford Connecticut

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First metropolitan regional plan

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1909, Chicago by Daniel Burnham.

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First city to use land use zoning to guide development.

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1909, Los Angeles.

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First state to pass enabling legislation

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1909, Wisconsin

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First full-time employee for a city planning commission,

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Harland Bartholomew was hired in Newark, New Jersey in 1914. Became famous planning consultant

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First comprehensive zoning code

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1916, NYC. Written by Edward Bassett

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First regional planning commission

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1922, LA County

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Standard State Zoning Enabling Act

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1924, issued by Secretary Herbert Hoover of the U.S. Department of Commerce

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First major U.S. city to adopt a comprehensive plan

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1925, Cincinnati. Alfred Bettman, Ladislas Segoe.

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Standard City Planning Enabling Act.

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1928, issued by Secretary Herbert Hoover of the U.S. Department of Commerce

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The first U.S. National Planning Board

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1933. It was later renamed the National Resources Planning Board and then abolished in 1943.

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The first federally supported public housing constructed

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Cleveland, 1934.

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First federally supported public housing occupied

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Atlanta, 1934 (?)

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First state to introduce statewide zoning

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Hawaii, 1961. Later amended in 1978.