History of Planning Profession

Question 1

1909 the first national planning conference

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

Question 2

1909 the first city planning course

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taught in Harvard’s Landscape Architecture Department.

Question 3

1912 Walter Moody published

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Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago
Adopted as an eighth-grade textbook by the Chicago Board of Education.
The first known formal instruction in city planning below the college level.

Question 4

In 1914, Flavel Shurtleff wrote

Answer 4

Carrying Out the City Plan

the first major textbook on city planning.

Question 5

In 1917, the American City Planning Institute of Planners (ACPI) was founded.

Answer 5

The organization was renamed to the American Institute of Planners (AIP) in 1939.
The AIP was the forerunner of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).

Question 6

Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.,

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ACIP’s first president.

Question 7

In 1925, the American City Planning Institute and the National Conference on City Planning published the first issue of City Planning,

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the predecessor to the current Journal of the American Planning Association.

Question 8

In 1934, the American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO)

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was founded.

Question 9

In 1971, AIP adopted

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a Code of Ethics for professional planners.

Question 10

In 1977, the first exam for AIP membership

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was administered.

Question 11

In 1978, the American Planning Association was created

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through a merger of AIP and ASPO.

Question 12

In 1981, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning published

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the first issue of The Journal of Planning Education and Research.