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| show | Designed by William Penn, the plan was that Philadelphia would be like an English rural town instead of a city. City's roads were designed with a grid plan
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| show | Designed by Pierre L Enfant, DC featured radial streets, applying principles of monumental design.
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| Savannah, GA 1733 | show 🗑
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| Land Ordinance of 1785 | show 🗑
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| Detroit ,MI 1807 | show 🗑
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| show | Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park in New York City.
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| George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) | show 🗑
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| USGS 1879 | show 🗑
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| show | Champion of conservation and preservation, believing American's needed to maximize and make the best use of resources. He led the first exploration of the Upper Colorado River and the Grand Canyon
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| show | Founded by Jane Addams-was one of first settlement houses in U.S. and grew into one of the largest, with facilities in 13 buildings. Attracted educated middle-class people to live in poor urban neighborhoods to provide social and educational services.
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| How the Other Half Lives 1890 | show 🗑
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| General Land Law Revision Act 1891 | show 🗑
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| show | Permitted settlers to claim 160-acre parcels of public land on the condition that they reside on the land for five consecutive years.
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| John Muir (1838-1914) | show 🗑
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| show | Leaders believed creating a beautiful city would inspire residents to lead virtuous lives. result was the creation of Beaux-Arts style civic centers. first model civic center was White City created by Daniel Burnham in Chicago in 1893.
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| World's Columbian Exposition 1893 | show 🗑
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| Garden Cities of Tomorrow 1898 | show 🗑
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| Garden City Movement 1898 | show 🗑
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| McMillan Plan of 1901 | show 🗑
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| show | conservationist. "I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us."
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| Letchworth, England 1903 | show 🗑
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| Pelican Island 1903 | show 🗑
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| Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) | show 🗑
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| show | Formed in 1905 under what is now the Department of Agriculture to administer the nations forests and grasslands. Gifford Pinchot was the first chief forester.
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| show | Charles Mulford Robinson and George Kessler designed Denver's parks and parkway's system.
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| show | The conference, held in Washington DC in 1909, brought together the leaders of the housing and city planning movements.
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| show | The plan, co-authored by Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett, featured waterfront parks and prominent civic buildings, applying the principles of the City Beautiful Movement.
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| Wacker's Manual if the Plan of Chicago 1912 | show 🗑
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| Grand Central Station New York 1913 | show 🗑
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| show | US President (1913-1921)
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| Cities in Evolution 1915 | show 🗑
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| Patrick Geddes | show 🗑
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| New York City Zoning Resolution 1916 | show 🗑
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| First Full Time Planner 1916 | show 🗑
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| National Park Service 1916 | show 🗑
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| First President of the AIP 1917 | show 🗑
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| French Quarter (Vieux Carre) 1921 | show 🗑
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| Warren G. Harding | show 🗑
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| show | Established in LA, the 1922 regional planning commission was the first in the US.
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| show | The first off-street parking requirements were developed in Columbus Ohio in 1923.
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| show | First Issue of City Planning 1925 In 1925, 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.
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| show | Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe, was the first to be officially adopted by a major American City. It was broader than previous plans, including information about housing, recreation, garbage, schools and financing.
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| Concentric Ring Theory 1925 | show 🗑
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| show | Designed by Robert Moses, and constructed in 1926, the Bronx River Parkway in Westchester County, NY was the first limited access highway.
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| show | Formed in 1927, the water district was created to build and operate the Colorado River Aquaduct.
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| show | Viewed land use as a function of accessibility
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| show | Designed by Stein and Wright, the city was inspired by Ebenezer Howard's Garden City Concept. It was the forerunner in the New Deal's Greenbelt Towns.
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| Regional Plan for New York and Its Environs 1929 | show 🗑
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| Herbert Hoover | show 🗑
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| Charleston, SC 1931 | show 🗑
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| Disappearing City 1932 | show 🗑
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| show | developed by Walter Christaller-explains the size and spacing of cities. The theory states that there is a minimum market threshold to bring a firm to a city and there is a maximum range people are willing to travel to receive goods and services.
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| TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) 1933 | show 🗑
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| show | FDR formed the Civilian Conservation Corp. as a public work relief program for men. The purpose was to releave high unemployment stemming from the great depression and to focus on natural resource conservation. Ended in 1942
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | show 🗑
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| Public Works Administration 1933 | show 🗑
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| show | The Government National Mortgage Association guarantees investors timely payment of principal and interest loans, does not buy or sell loans. The Government owned corporation is within HUD.
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| show | Rexford Tugwell-new deal program relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by federal gov. responsible for New Towns program,developed three cities based on ideas (greenbelt towns):Greendale, WI;Greenhills, OH;and Greenbelt, MD
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| The Radiant City of 1935 | show 🗑
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| show | The program continued and extended relief programs, offering work to the unemployed by spending money on a wide variety of programs including highway and building construction, slum clearance and rural rehabilitation.
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| show | Louis Wirth argued for urbanism as the prevailing way of life and claimed that the density of cities influences the behavior of people and their relationships.
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| show | The Federal National Mortgage Association is a stockholder-owned corporation. The corporation's purpose is to purchase and securitize mortgages in order to ensure that funds are consistently available to the institutions that lend money to home buyers.
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| Sector Theory 1939 | show 🗑
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| show | built under the auspices of the US Bureau of Reclamation on the Columbian River in WA. It is the largest concrete structure in the US and the largest electric power producing facility in the US.
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| show | Developed by Chauncey Harris and Edward Ullman, proposed that urban areas grow by progressive integration of a number of separate nuclei, which become specialized and differentiated. a city contains more than one center around which activities revolve.
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| show | US President (1945-1953)
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| show | US Population born between 1946 and 1964
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| Park Forest, IL 1947 | show 🗑
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| show | Developed by Alfred and William Levitt (Levitt and Son's) Levittown was the first truly mass-produced suburb and is widely regarded as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the country.
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| show | All federal housing programs were consolidated under this agency, the predecessor to HUD.
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| show | The Council was the first regional planning agency.
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| show | The trust is a private, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to saving historic places and revitalizing America's communities.
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| Urban Renewal 1949-1973 | show 🗑
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower | show 🗑
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| show | Lexington and Fayette County enacted the first urban growth boundary in 1958.
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| William Whyte (1917-1999) | show 🗑
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| The Science of Muddling Through 1959 | show 🗑
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| show | Kevin Lynch-reported that users understood their surroundings in consistent and predictable ways, forming mental maps with five elements: paths, edges, perceived boundaries, and landmarks,
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| Bid Rent Theory 1960 | show 🗑
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| Megalopolis 1961 | show 🗑
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| John F. Kennedy | show 🗑
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| Death and Life of Great American Cities 1961 | show 🗑
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| Rachel Carson (1907-1964) | show 🗑
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| show | A post WWII New Town established by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. The town was designed as a full scale, self contained New Town, located 18 miles from DC.
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| Columbia, MD 1963 | show 🗑
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| Lyndon B. Johnson | show 🗑
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| The Urban General Plan 1964 | show 🗑
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| show | Created HUD as a cabinet level agency. Robert Weaver was the first secretary of HUD and the first African-American cabinet member. HUD established rent subsidy programs, granted low interest home loans and provided subsidy for public housing projects.
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| Generation X | show 🗑
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| show | Provides grants to economically-distressed communities to generate new employment, help retain existing jobs and stimulate industrial and commercial growth.
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| Design with Nature 1969 | show 🗑
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| NEPA 1970 | show 🗑
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| Freddie Mac 1970 | show 🗑
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| Arcosanti in Arizona 1970 | show 🗑
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| EPA 1970 | show 🗑
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| show | In 1971, AIP adopted a Code of Ethics for professional planners.
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| Landsat 1972 | show 🗑
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| show | John Friedmann-where the planner meets with individuals in the community to discuss issues. Through a process of "mutual learning" the planner shares technical knowledge, while the citizen provide community knowledge.
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| Section 8 Housing 1974 | show 🗑
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| Gautreaux Program 1976 | show 🗑
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| First AICP Exam In 1977 | show 🗑
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| Generation Y | show 🗑
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| show | US President (1977-1981)
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| APA Created | show 🗑
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| show | Authored by William Whyte in 1980, the book is a study of factors that contribute to the success of urban spaces, including: abundance of public spaces, active street life and the ability to purchase food and drink.
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| CERCLA (Superfund) 1980 | show 🗑
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| show | LESA is a rating system developed by NRCS and USDA to assess the suitability of parcels for continued agricultural use. It includes environmental, economic, social and geographic features.
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| Ronald Reagan | show 🗑
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| show | Seaside is often cited as an example of successful implementation of New Urbanism. The development has walkable neighborhoods, mixed use development, grid street patterns, rear parking for commercial structures and minimal side and front setbacks.
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| show | tax credit created under the Tax Reform Act of 1986-gives incentives for utilization of private equity in development of affordable housing. It enabled nonprofit housing organizations to raise housing construction funds by selling tax credits
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| show | The act established a federal definition of homelessness and provided assistance to homeless people. It was the first legislative response to homelessness and established the continuum of care.
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| City as Growth Machine 1987 | show 🗑
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| Radical Planning 1987 | show 🗑
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| show | US President (1989-1993)
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| HOPE VI 1992 | show 🗑
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| Bill Clinton | show 🗑
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| show | Federal funds were made available to distressed urban areas, providing incentives such as property tax reductions, sales tax reductions wage tax credits and low interest financing to jumpstart investment. End in 12/31/2009
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| Wetlands Reserve Program 1996 | show 🗑
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| George W. Bush | show 🗑
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