Important Places

Question 1

Letchworth, UK

Answer 1

• 1st English Garden City
• Inspired New Towns

1903

Question 2

Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York

Answer 2

• 1st US attempt at Garden City but really just a planned community

1920s

designed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright
constructed by the City Housing Corporation

Question 3

Radburn, NJ

Answer 3

1st American Garden City

1920s

designed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright

Question 4

Greendale, WI

Answer 4

Greenbelt Towns Program / Green Towns Program

Question 5

Green Hills, OH

Answer 5

Greenbelt Towns Program / Green Towns Program

Question 6

Greenbelt, MD

Answer 6

Greenbelt Towns Program / Green Towns Program

Question 7

Park Forest, IL

Answer 7

New Towns Program

1940s

Question 8

Reston, VA

Answer 8

New Towns Program

Question 9

Columbia, MD

Answer 9

New Towns Program

1960s

Question 10

Tysons Corner, VA

Answer 10

Edge Cities

Question 11

Seaside, FL

Answer 11

1st New Urbanist Town

1980s

Question 12

Pullman, IL

Answer 12

model industrial town

1980s

built by George Pullman

Question 13

Chicago, IL

Answer 13

• World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)
• 1909 Plan for Chicago - first metropolitan regional plan
• first major introduction of transfer of development rights (1971)

Daniel Burnham

Question 14

San Francisco, CA

Answer 14

• 1st land use zonign restrictions (noxious uses) in 1867
• City Beautiful (1st application in major American City) in 1906
• first rapid transit system (1972)

Question 15

Cleveland, OH

Answer 15

• first local civic center plan (1903)
• first federally supported public housing constructed (19934)

Daniel Burnham, Carrere, and Brunner involved in plan

Question 16

Pittsburgh, PA

Answer 16

first comprehensive city survey

1907

Question 17

Hartford, CT

Answer 17

first official, local, and permanent planning board

1907

Question 18

Washington, D.C.

Answer 18

• 1st National Conference on City Planning (1909)
• McMillan Plan for D.C. (Burnham, et al.)
• Le Corbusier

Question 19

Los Angeles

Answer 19

• First city to use land use zoning to guide development (1909)
• 1st regional planning commission (LA County)

Question 20

Newark, NJ

Answer 20

Hires the first full-time municipally employed planner - Harland Bartholomew

1914

Question 21

New York City

Answer 21

• adopts the nation’s first comprehensive zoning resolution (1916)
• first major american city to introduce “flexible” controls in their zoning ordinance

Question 22

New Orleans

Answer 22

1st historic preservation commission in the US

1921

The Vieux Carre Commission

Question 23

Kansas City, MO

Answer 23

1st suburban auto-oriented shopping center

1922

Question 24

Cincinnati, OH

Answer 24

first major city to endorse (1925) and adopt (1948) a comprehensive Plan

Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe

Question 25

Levittown, NY

Answer 25

planned community | 1940s

Question 26

Detroit

Answer 26

origin of the Council of Government movement

Question 27

Wisconsin

Answer 27

1st State Enabling Act legislation | 1909

Question 28

New Jersey

Answer 28

first state to introduce the mandatory referral of subdivision plats | 1913

Question 29

Massachusetts

Answer 29

first state to make planning mandatory for local governments | 1913

Question 30

California

Answer 30

first state to institute extraterritorial mandatory referral of subdivision plats | 1915

Question 31

Miami, OH

Answer 31

first regional functional authoirty plan adopted by Miami Conservancy District, Ohio | 1916

Question 32

Hawaii

Answer 32

first state to institute statewide zoning | 1961

Question 33

Arcosanti

Answer 33

* experimental utopian city * focused on minimizing the impact of development on the natural environment * Arizona * Paolo Soleri was architect

Question 34

Arthurdale, WV

Answer 34

* Resettlement Administration community * Rexford Tugwell closely involved

Question 35

Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota

Answer 35

* built in 1956 * first indoor regional shopping mall in the U.S * part of a master plan that included residential, commercial, medical, office, and mixed-use projects * set the precedent for shopping malls * Victor Gruen, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, arrived in America in 1938 and went on to be a dominant figure in shopping mall design.