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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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| 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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| Carrying Out the City Plan |
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| Flavel Shurtleff writes the first major textbook on city planning. (1914) |
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| Planning of the Modern City |
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| Nelson P. Lewis published. (1916) |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| ACSP issues Volume 1, Number 1 of The Journal of Education and Planning Research. |
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| Monograph on the Neighborhood Unit |
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| Published in Volume VII of The Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs, by Clarence Perry (1929) |
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| Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States |
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| By John Wesley Powell. Includes a proposed regional plan that would both foster settlement of the arid west and conserve scarce water resources. (1878) |
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| Regional Factors in National Planning |
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| By the National Resources Committee, a landmark in regional planning literature. (1935) |
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| Rachel Carson's book published and wakes the nation to the deleterious effects of pesticides on animal, plant and human life. (1962) |
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| Seminal historic preservation book, is published. (1966) |
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| Alexander Hamilton argues for protective tariffs for manufacturing industry as a means of promoting industrial development in the young republic. (1791) |
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| By Jacob Riis. A powerful stimulus to housing and neighborhood reform. (1890) |
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| Monograph, The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities |
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| Homer Hoyt's influential "sector theory" of urban growth appears. (1939) |
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| By Martin Anderson indicts then-current urban renewal program as counterproductive to its professed aims of increased low- and middleincome housing supply. With Herbert Gans's The Urban Villagers (1962), a study of the consequences for community life in a Boston West End Italian-American community, contributes to a change in urban policy. (1964) |
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| In this influential book Henry George presents an argument for diminishing extremes of national wealth and poverty by means of a Comprehensive Planning Examination Study Notes 2007 Pennsylvania Planning Association Page 6 Professional Development Committee single tax (on land) that would capture the "unearned increment" of national development for public uses. (1879) |
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| Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform |
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| By Ebenezer Howard, a source of the Garden City Movement. Reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow. (1898) |
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| The Principles of Scientific Management |
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| Frederick Winslow Taylor publishes which was a fountainhead of the efficiency movements in this country, including efficiency in city government. (1911) |
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| Patrick Geddes, "Father of Regional Planning" and mentor of Lewis Mumford, publishes. (1915) |
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| Publication of "Regional Plan" issue of Survey Graphic |
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| Influential essays on regional planning by Lewis Mumford and other members of the Regional Planning Association of America (e.g., Catherine Bauer). (1925) |
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| Concentric Zone model of urban structure and land use |
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| By Ernest Burgess. (1925) |
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| Monograph on Major Economic Factors in Metropolitan Growth and Arrangement |
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| Published in Volume I of The Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs. Viewed land use as a function of accessibility. By Robert Murray Haig. (1928) |
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| Final Report by the National Planning Board on its first year of existence |
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| Includes a section entitled "A Plan for Planning" and an account of the "Historical Development of Planning in the United States." The latter views American planning history in the context of U.S. political and economic history. (1934) |
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| F. Stuart Chapin publishes. (1957) |
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| Multiple Land Use Classification System |
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| (A. Guttenberg) published in Journal of American Institute of Planners. The first approach to the definition of land-use classifications in multidimensional terms. (1959) |
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| By Kevin Lynch defines basic elements of city's "imageability" (paths, edges, nodes, etc.). (1960) |
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| A Choice Theory of Planning |
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| Seminal article in AIP Journal by Paul Davidoff and Thomas Reiner, lays basis for advocacy planning concept. (1962) |
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| The Making of Urban America |
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| John Reps publishes the first comprehensive history of American urban planning beginning with colonial times. (1965) |
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| Ian McHarg publishes, tying planning to the natural environment. (1969) |
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