When and where was the first national planning conference,
National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief,
held? correct answer: 1909 in Washington, D.C.
When and in what school was the first city planning course
taught? correct answer: 1909 in Harvard’s Landscape
Architecture Department
Who published ‘Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago’ ?
correct answer: Walter Moody in 1912
What was the first known formal instruction in city planning
below college level? correct answer: Chicago Board of
Education adopted Wacker’s Manual of Plan of Chicago as an
8th grade textbook.
Who wrote ‘Carrying Out the City Plan’? correct answer: Flavel
Shurtleff in 1914
What was the first major textbook on city planning correct
answer: ‘Carrying out the City Plan’ by Flavel Shurtleff
When was the American City Planning Institute of Planners
(AICP) founded? correct answer: 1917
Who was the first president of American City Planning Institute
of Planners (AICP)? correct answer: Frederick Law Olmsted,
Jr.
When and to what was the American City Planning Institute of
Planners? correct answer: in 1939 to American Institute of
Planners (AIP)
By who and when was the first issue of ‘City Planning’ (before
the current Journal of the American Planning Association)?
correct answer: In 1925 by American City Planning Institute
and the National Conference of City Planning.
When was the American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO)
founded? correct answer: 1934
When did the AIP adopt a Code of Ethics for professional
Planners? correct answer: 1917
When was the first AIP membership administered correct
answer: 1977
When was the American Planning Association created? correct
answer: 1978
How was the American Planning Association created? correct
answer: Merger of AIP and ASPO
When did the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
publish the first issue of ‘The journal of Planning Education and
Research’? correct answer: 1981
Who and when passed the first land use zoning restrictions on
the location of obnoxious uses? correct answer: San Francisco
in 1867
Where & when was the first local civic center plan in the US
created? correct answer: Cleveland in 1903
Who was responsible for the plan’s development of Cleveland’s
first local civic center plan? correct answer: Daniel Burnham,
John Carrere & Arnold Brunner
What was the first American city to apply the City Beautiful
principal, using a plan developed by Daniel Burnham? correct
answer: San Francisco in 1906
When and where was first town planning board was created?
correct answer: Hartford, Connecticut in 1907
Who & when was the first metropolitan regional plan for
Chicago created? correct answer: Daniel Burnham in 1909
Which & when was the first state to pass enabling legislation?
correct answer: Wisconsin in 1909
Which and when was the first city to use land use zoning to
guide development? correct answer: Los Angeles in 1909
What & when city hired the first full-time employee for a city
planning commission?
Who was it? correct answer: Newark, New Jersey In 1914