History of Planning Profession

Question 1

1909

Answer 1

The first national planning conference was held at the National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief in Washington, D.C. In the same year, the first city planning course was taught in Harvard’s Landscape Architecture Department.

Question 2

1912

Answer 2

Walter Moody published Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago, 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.

Question 3

1914

Answer 3

Flavel Shurtleff wrote Carrying Out the City Plan, the first major textbook on city planning.

Question 4

1917

Answer 4

the American City Planning Institute of Planners (ACPI) was founded. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., was ACIP’s first president. 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 5

1925

Answer 5

the American City Planning Institute and the National Conference on City Planning published the first issue of City Planning, the predecessor to the current Journal of the American Planning Association.

Question 6

1934

Answer 6

The American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) was founded

Question 7

1971

Answer 7

AIP Adopted a Code of Ethics for professional Planners

Question 8

1977

Answer 8

The First exam for AIP membership was administered

Question 9

1978

Answer 9

The American Planning Association was created through merger of AIP and ASPO

Question 10

1981

Answer 10

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning published the first issue of The Journal of Planning Education and Research