History Flashcards

(41 cards)

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Hippodamus

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first town planner and inventor of urban grid layout (5th Century BC)

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Laws of the Indies

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Spanish pueblo planning (San Antonio, Los Angeles) (16th Century)

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Philadelphi Plan

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grids and parks - William Penn - 1682

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Annapolis Plan

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radiocentric - Governor Francis Nicholson - 1695

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Savannah Plan

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ward park system - James Oglethorpe - 1733

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Plan for Washington

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grid and radials - Pierre L’Enfant and Benjamin Banneker - 1791

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Seaside, FL

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best represents neo traditional principles

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Olmstead Sr.

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Father of American landscape architecture, Central Park, First Suburb (Riverside in Chicago), “White City” at 1893 Columbian Exposition

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Olmstead Jr.

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Washington DC mall, Jefferson Memorial, 1st National City Planning Conference, 1st President of Planning Institute, created Advisory Committee on City Planning and Zoning (SZEA)

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Riverside

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First suburb - 1869 - Olmstead and Vaux - Chicago

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How the Other Half Lives

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Jacob Riis - Jane-Addams Settlement House Movement

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World Columbian Exposition

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City Beautiful Movement - Daniel Burnham - 1893

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Garden City Movement

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Ebenezer Howard - 1898 - First used in Queens NY

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Plan of Chicago

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Burnham and Bennett - 1909

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Radiant City

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LeCorbusier - 1920

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Concentric Zone Theory

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Burgess - Chicago - 1925 - First city model with social group distribution

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Invasion/Succession

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As city grows, each ring of the concentric zone invades and overtakes the next right out

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Radburn

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Stein and Wright

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Roosevelt Administration

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City Humane Movement, TVA created, Resettlement Administration, Natural Resources Planning Board, Sector Theory

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Sector Theory

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Homer Hoyt -1939

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Multiple Nuclei Model

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Harris and Ullman - 1945 - Chicago - “The Nature of Cities”

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Johnson’s Great Society

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Civil Rights Act, HUD, Model Cities Program

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Nixon

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The Environmental President - NEPA, EPA, Environmental Acts

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New Urbanism

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Andres Duany - Seaside - 1981

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Transect & Form-based codes
T1 = natural environment, T6 = urban core
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Superblocks
LeCorbusier under Radiant City 1924 - urban land bounded by arterial roads (suburban neighborhood)
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Parks Movement
1850's - Olmstead and Vaux’s “Greensward Plan” for Central Park
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Public Health/Sanitary Reform
1850s - 1920
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Settlement House Movement
1880’s - Jane Addams Chicago Hull House
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City Beautiful Movement
1893 - Burnham and Olmsted - “White City” – established city planning in local government
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Garden City Movement
1898 - Ebenezer Howard
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Radiant City
1924 - LeCorbusier – “Superblocks” high-rises – used in Russia and Brazil
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Professionalization of Planning
1900’s - 1907 1st local planning board in Hartford, 1909 Washing DC 1st planning association, 1916 NYC has 1st comprehensive zoning ordinance (Bassett)
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City Efficient Movement
1920’s - 1st state zoning act, 1st comprehensive plan by Alfred Bettman, 1st planning enabling act
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City Humane Movement
1930’s - New Deal/Roosevelt
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Norris, TN
Associated with TVA Racism
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Broadacre City
Frank Lloyd Wright – auto-oriented suburbia layout - 1932
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City Functional Movement
Post WWII - emphasized functionalism and administration efficiency - 1940's
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Section 701 of the Housing Act
Passed in 1954 - subsidized small city comprehensive plans
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Norman Krumholtz
equity planning
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Jean Gottman
coined the term “Megalopolis” to describe the densely populated urban corridor of the northeastern US