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| The National Planning Board |
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| Established in the Interior Department to assist in the preparation of a comprehensive plan for public works under the direction of Frederick Delano, Charles Merriam, Wesley Mitchell. Its last successor agency, the National Resources Planning Board, was abolished in 1943. (1933) |
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| Standard City Planning Enabling Act |
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| U.S. Department of Commerce under Secretary Herbert Hoover issues. (1928) |
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| Stressed slum prevention and urban renewal rather than slum clearance and urban redevelopment as in the 1949 act. Also stimulated general planning for cities under 25,000 population by providing funds under Section 701 of the act. "701 funding" later extended by legislative amendments to foster statewide, interstate, and substate regional planning. (1954) |
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| Cleveland Policy Plan Report |
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| Shifts emphasis from traditional land-use planning to advocacy planning. (1975) |
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| World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago |
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| Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World. A source of the City Beautiful Movement and of theurban planning profession. (1893) |
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| First National Conference on City Planning |
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| In Washington, D.C. (1909) |
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| Possibly the first course in city planning in this country |
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| Inaugurated in Harvard College's Landscape Architecture Department. Taught by James Sturgis Pray. (1909) |
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| Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago |
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| By Walter D. Moody. Adopted as an eigthgrade textbook on City Planning by the Chicago Board of Education. Possibly the first formal instruction in city planning below the college level. (1912) |
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| First of its kind in the U.S., is created in the University of Illinois's Department of Horticulture for Charles Mulford Robinson, one of the principal promoters of the World's Columbian Exposition. (1913) |
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| Carrying Out the City Plan |
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| Flavel Shurtleff writes the first major textbook on city planning. (1914) |
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| First full-time employee of a city planning commission |
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| Harland Bartholomew, eventually the country's best known planning consultant, becomes in Newark, New Jersey (1914) |
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| Planning of the Modern City |
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| Nelson P. Lewis published. (1916) |
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| Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. |
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| First president of newly founded American City Planning Institute , forerunner of American Institute of Planners and American Institute of Certified Planners. (1917) |
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| Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission |
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| First of its kind in the United States. (Hugh Pomeroy, head of staff.) (1922) |
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| First major American city officially to endorse a comprehensive plan |
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| Cincinnati, Ohio. (Alfred Bettman, Ladislas Segoe). (1925) |
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| Vol. 1, No. 1 of City Planning, ancestor of present-day Journal of the American Planning Association |
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| In April, The American City Planning Institute and The National Conference on City Planning publish. (1925) |
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| American Society of Planning Officials |
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| Founded as an organization for planners, planning commissioners and planning-related public officials. (1934) |
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| Our Cities: Their Role in the National Economy |
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| A landmark report by the Urbanism Committee of the National Resources Committee. (Ladislas Segoe headed research staff.) (1937) |
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| The American Institute of Planners |
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| The planning field's professional organization, states as its purpose: "... the planning of the unified developoment of urban communities and their environs, and of states, regions and the nation, as expressed through determination of the comprehensive arrangement of land uses and land occupancy and the regulation thereof." (1938) |
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| Local Planning Administration |
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| By Ladislas Segoe, first of "Green Book" series, appears. (1941) |
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| Planning Function in Urban Government |
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| A seminal, book-length inquiry by Harvey S. Perloff into the appropriate intellectual, practical and 'philosophical' basis for the education of city and regional planners … (1957) |
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| The American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ASCP) |
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| Began when a few department heads of planning schools get together at the annual ASIP conference to confer on common problems and interests regarding the eductation of planners. (1959) |
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| The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
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| By Jane Jacobs, includes a critique of planning and planners. (1961) |
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| Richard Hedman and Fred Bair publish a hilarious book of cartoons poking fun at the planning profession by two of our own. (1961) |
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| T.J. Kent publishes. (1964) |
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| The planning profession reaches its 50th anniversary with a celebratory conference in Washington, D.C. |
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| Many of the earliest practitioners and founders of the profession attend together with eminent leaders of other professions. (1967) |
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| The "(Louis B.) Wetmore Amendment" |
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| Drops the final phrase in the 1938 AIP declaration of purpose which tied it to the comprehensive arrangement and regulation of land use. The effect is to broaden the scope and membership of the of profession by including "social planners" as well as "physical planners." (1967) |
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| American City Planning Since 1890 |
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| Mel Scott publishes. Reissued in 1995 by the American Planning Association. (1969) |
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| Code of Ethics for professional planners |
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| First exam for AIP membership |
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| American Planning Association (APA) |
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| American Institute of Planners (AIP) and American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) merge to become this. (1978) |
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| Planning profession challenged to adapt to a new (counter-New Deal) policy environment: reduced federal domestic spending, privatization, deregulation, etc. Phase-out of some earlier aids to planning (e.g., sewer grants) and planning programs (e.g., "Title V Regions"). (1980) |
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| The Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) |
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| Established to represent the academic branch of the planning profession. (1980) |
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| ACSP issues Volume 1, Number 1 of The Journal of Education and Planning Research. |
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| First National Conference on American Planning History |
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| Convened in Columbus, Ohio and leads to the founding of the Society 0f American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) the following year. (1986) |
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| The Planning Accreditation Board (PAB) |
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| Recognized by the Washington-based Council on Post Secondary Education to be the sole accrediting agency in the field of professional planning education. (1989) |
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| American Institute of Certified Planners |
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| Inaugurates a College of Fellows to recognize distinguished individual contributions by longer term AICP members. (1999) |
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