History Of The Planning Profession

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first national planning conference

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held in 1909 as the National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief in Washington, D.C.

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1912, Walter Moody's Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago

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the first known formal instruction in city planning below the college level

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Carrying Out the City Plan

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Flavel Shurtleff's book, written in 1914 and considered the first major textbook on city planning

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When was the American Institute of Planners (AIP, the forerunner of the AICP) founded and who was its 1st president?

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1917, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr

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who originally published City Planning (predecessor to the current Journal of the American Planning Association) and when was it first published?

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In 1925, the American City Planning Institute and the National Conference on City Planning

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when was the American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) founded?

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1934

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When did the AIP first adopt a Code of Ethics for professional planners?

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1971

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When was the first exam for AIP membership administered?

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1977

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When was the the American Planning Association created, and how?

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1978, through a merger of AIP and ASPO.

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When was the first issue of The Journal of Planning Education and Research published, and by whom?

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1981, by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).