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