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PLANNING HITORY
AICP STUDY
Question | Answer |
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1682 | William Penn lays out the City of Phily in a grid pattern |
1785 | The rectangular land survey is established. called the largest singled act of national planning in our history |
1825 | Eeere Canal completed. connected the northeastern states with the newly settled areas of the west. |
1855 | First model tenenment built in Manhattan |
1868 | Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvar Vaux begin the planning of Riverside Illinois. |
1869 | Union Pacific railroad and Central Pacific Railroad meet at Promontory Point Utah to complete the transcontinental railroad. |
1879 | Debut of the Dumbbel tenement so called because of its shape. |
1862 | Homestead Act opened the land to settlers for a nominal fee and five years residence. |
1880-84 | Building of Pullman, Illinois model industrial town planned communities. |
1887 | Mungler v. Kansas, court ruled that coursts have the duty to strike down local laws that do not have any substantial relation to ploice power for public health safety and welfare. |
1890 | HOw the other half lives book was written by Jacob Riis. |
1891 | General Land Law created power to the president forest preserves. |
1892 | Sierra Club founded to promote the protection and preservation of the natural environment. |
1893 | Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago the 400th aniversary. |
1897 | Forest Management Act gave some control to the secretary of interrior over the use and occupancy of the forest preserves. |
1898 | Gifford Pinchot becomes Chief Forestor of USDA. |