| 1893
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World's Columbian Exposition
in Chicago commemorating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New
World. A source of the City Beautiful Movement and of the urban planning
profession. |
| 1909 |
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The First National Conference on
City Planning convenes in Washington, D.C., and brings together the leaders
of the housing and city planning movements. |
| 1909 |
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Possibly the first course in city
planning in this country is inaugurated in Harvard College's Landscape Architecture
Department. Taught by James Sturgis Pray. |
| 1912 |
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Walter D. Moody's "Wacker's
Manual of the Plan of Chicago" is adopted as an eigth-grade textbook
on City Planning by the Chicago Board of Education. Possibly the first formal
instruction in city planning below the college level. |
| 1913 |
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A chair in Civic Design, 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. |
| 1914 |
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Flavel Shurtleff writes Carrying
Out the City Plan, the first major textbook on city planning. |
| 1914 |
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Harland Bartholomew, eventually
the country's best known planning consultant, becomes the first full-time
employee in Newark, New Jersey, of a city planning commission. |
| 1916 |
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Nelson P. Lewis published Planning
of the Modern City. |
| 1917 |
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Frederick
Law Olmsted, Jr. becomes first president of newly founded American City
Planning Institute, forerunner of American Institute of Planners and American
Institute of Certified Planners. |
| 1922 |
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Los Angeles County Regional Planning
Commission created. First of its kind in the United States. (Hugh Pomeroy,
head of staff.) |
| 1925 |
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Cincinnati, Ohio becomes first major
American city officially to endorse a comprehensive plan. (Alfred Bettman,
Ladislas Segoe.) |
| 1925 |
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In April, The American City Planning
Institute and The National Conference on City Planning publish Vol. 1, No.
1 of City Planning, ancestor of present-day Journal of the American
Planning Association. |
| 1928 |
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U.S. Department of Commerce under
Secretary Herbert Hoover issues a Standard City Planning Enabling Act. |
| 1933 |
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The National Planning Board 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. |
| 1934 |
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American Society of Planning Officials
founded, an organization for planners, planning commissioners, and planning-related
public officials. |
| 1937 |
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Our Cities: Their Role in the
National Economy. A landmark report by the Urbanism Committee of the
National Resources Committee. (Ladislas Segoe headed research staff.) |
| 1938 |
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The American Institute of Planners,
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." |
| 1941 |
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Local Planning Administration,
by Ladislas Segoe, first of "Green Book" series, appears. |
| 1941 |
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Robert Walker's Planning Function
in Urban Government advocates making the planning staff an arm of
the city government rather than of a citizens planning board or commission. |
| 1954 |
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Housing
Act of 1954. 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. |
| 1957 |
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Education for Planning. 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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F. Stuart Chapin, Jr. publishes Urban Land
Use Planning, the first textbook on the subject. |
| 1959 |
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The American Collegiate Schools of Planning
(ASCP) is born 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. |
| 1961 |
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The Death and Life of Great American
Cities, by Jane
Jacobs, includes a critique of planning and planners. |
| 1961 |
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Richard Hedman and Fred Bair publish
And
On the Eighth Day, a hilarious book of cartoons poking fun at the
planning profession by two of our own. |
| 1962 |
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The City in History by Lewis
Mumford, social critic and professional planner, wins the National Book
Award. |
| 1963 |
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In an influential article in the Journal
of the American Institute of Planners, "Comprehensive Planning
and Social Responsibility," Melvin Webber calls for the profession
to widen its scope beyond the traditional base in land-use planning,
embrace more directly the social goals of freedom and opportunity in
a pluralistic society, and make greater use of the perspectives of the
social sciences. |
| 1964 |
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T.J. Kent publishes The Urban
General Plan. |
| 1967 |
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The "(Louis B.) Wetmore Amendment"
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 profession by including "social
planners" as well as "physical planners." |
| 1967 |
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The planning profession reaches its 50th
anniversary with a
celebratory conference in Washington, D.C. Many of the earliest
practitioners and founders of the profession attend together with eminent
leaders of other professions. |
| 1969 |
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Mel Scott publishes American
City Planning Since 1890. Reissued in 1995 by the American Planning
Association. |
| 1971 |
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AIP adopts a Code of Ethics for
professional planners. |
| 1975 |
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Cleveland Policy Plan Report shifts
emphasis from traditional land-use planning to advocacy planning. |
| 1977 |
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First exam for AIP membership conducted. |
| 1978 |
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American Institute of Planners (AIP)
and American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) merge to become American
Planning Association (APA). |
| 1979 |
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Cities of the American West by professional
planner John Reps wins the National Book Award. |
| 1981 |
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ACSP issues Volume 1, Number 1 of The Journal
of Education and Planning Research. |
| 1986 |
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The First National Conference on
American Planning History is convened in Columbus, Ohio and leads to the
founding of the Society 0f American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH)
the following year. |
| 1989 |
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The Planning Accreditation Board
(PAB) is recognized by the Washington-based Council on Post Secondary Education
to be the sole accrediting agency in the field of professional planning
education. |
| 1999 |
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American Institute of Certified
Planners inaugurates a College of Fellows to recognize distinguished individual
contributions by longer term AICP members. |
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