AICP history info

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Ordinance of 1785

- Provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest - the survey was called "the largest single act of national planning in our history and the most significant in terms of continuing impact on the body politic" (Daniel Elazer)

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Model Tenement

1855, Manhattan

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Homestead Act

1862, opened the lands of the Public Domain for a normal fee and five years residence

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New York Council of Hygiene of the Citizens Assocication

1864, mounts a campaign to raise housing and sanitary standards

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1st major tenement housing law

1867, New York, restricteing physical conditions

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Beginning of land-use zoning in the U.S.

1867, San Francisco prohibits specific obnoxious uses in certain districts

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Dumbell Tenements debut

1879, a form of multifamily housing widely built in New York until the end of the century and notorious for the poor living conditions it imposed on its denizens (lack of light, air space)

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model industrial town, 1880-1884

Pullman, IL, by George Pullman

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"How the Other Half Lives"

1890, Jacob Riis, motivated housing and neighborhood reform

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Federal government recognizes slums and cities

1892, in a survey

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World's Columbian Exposition

1893, Chicago, commemorated the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World. inspired City Beautiful movement. Urban Planing profession

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"Tomorow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform"

1898, Ebenezer Howard, start of Garden City movement, Reissued in 1902 as "Garden Cities of Tomorrow"

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First State court support of ordinance/act restricting heights of buildings

1899

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New York State Tenement House Law

1901. Legislative basis for the revision of city codes that oulawed tenements such as Dumbell tenements.

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Lawrence Veiller

leading housing reformer, associated with 1901 NY Tenement House Law

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First English Garden City

1903, Letchworth. stimulus to new town movement in America (Greenbelt town, columbia, etc)

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First Local Civic Center plan

1903, developed for Cleveland, OH by Daniel H. Burnham

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First application of "City Beautiful" principles to a major American City

1906, Plan for San Francisco

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First Comprehensive city survey

1907, Pittsburgh

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First official local, and permanent planning board

1907 Hartford, CT

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First National conference on City Planning

1909, Washington, DC

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First American use of zoning to restrict future development

1909, LA create multitude of zone

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First state enabling act

1909, Wisconsin

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Plan of Chicago

1909, first metropolitan regional plan in U.S.

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Daniel Burnham

created Plan of Chicago

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Forest Hill Gardens, Long Island, NY

1910, First American test of neighborhood idea

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"Carrying Out the City Plan"

1913, First major American text book on planning, Flavel Shurtleff

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AIP

American Institute of Planners, 1917, 1st president was Frederick Law Olmstead Jr

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American City Planning Institute

predessor to the AIP

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