Hippodamus
first town planner and inventor of urban grid layout (5th Century BC)
Laws of the Indies
Spanish pueblo planning (San Antonio, Los Angeles) (16th Century)
Philadelphi Plan
grids and parks - William Penn - 1682
Annapolis Plan
radiocentric - Governor Francis Nicholson - 1695
Savannah Plan
ward park system - James Oglethorpe - 1733
Plan for Washington
grid and radials - Pierre L’Enfant and Benjamin Banneker - 1791
Seaside, FL
best represents neo traditional principles
Olmstead Sr.
Father of American landscape architecture, Central Park, First Suburb (Riverside in Chicago), “White City” at 1893 Columbian Exposition
Olmstead Jr.
Washington DC mall, Jefferson Memorial, 1st National City Planning Conference, 1st President of Planning Institute, created Advisory Committee on City Planning and Zoning (SZEA)
Riverside
First suburb - 1869 - Olmstead and Vaux - Chicago
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis - Jane-Addams Settlement House Movement
World Columbian Exposition
City Beautiful Movement - Daniel Burnham - 1893
Garden City Movement
Ebenezer Howard - 1898 - First used in Queens NY
Plan of Chicago
Burnham and Bennett - 1909
Radiant City
LeCorbusier - 1920
Concentric Zone Theory
Burgess - Chicago - 1925 - First city model with social group distribution
Invasion/Succession
As city grows, each ring of the concentric zone invades and overtakes the next right out
Radburn
Stein and Wright
Roosevelt Administration
City Humane Movement, TVA created, Resettlement Administration, Natural Resources Planning Board, Sector Theory
Sector Theory
Homer Hoyt -1939
Multiple Nuclei Model
Harris and Ullman - 1945 - Chicago - “The Nature of Cities”
Johnson’s Great Society
Civil Rights Act, HUD, Model Cities Program
Nixon
The Environmental President - NEPA, EPA, Environmental Acts
New Urbanism
Andres Duany - Seaside - 1981