Planning Profession Milestones

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World's Columbian Exposition

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1893. World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago commemorating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World. A source of the City Beautiful Movement and of the urban planning profession.

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First planning conference

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1909. First National Conference on City Planning in Washington, DC.

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First (college-level) course in city planning

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1909. Possibly the first course in city planning in the US is inaugurated in Harvard College's Landscape Architecture Department. Taught by James Sturgis Pray.

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Wackers Manual

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1912. Walter D. Moody's "Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago" is adopted as an 8th-grade textbook on City Planning by the Chicago Board of Education. Possibly the first formal instruction in city planning below the college level.

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First chair in civic design

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1913. The first of its kind in the US. Created in the University of Illinois's Department of Horticulture for Charles Mulford Robinson, one of the principal promoters of the World's Columbian Exposition.

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First major textbook on city planning

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1914. Flavel Shurtleff's Carrying out the City Plan.

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First full-time municipal planner

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1914. Harland Bartholomew is hired by Newark, NJ. Goes on to become nation's most well-known planning consultant.

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Nelson P. Lewis

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1916. Publishes Planning of the Modern City.

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ACPI

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1917. FLO, Jr. becomes first president of the newly founded American City Planning Institute, forerunner of the American Institute of Planners and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

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First regional planning commission

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1922. Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission created, the first of its kind in the US. Hugh Pomeroy, head of staff.

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First comprehensive plan

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1925. Cincinnati OH becomes first major American city officially to endorse a comprehensive plan. Authors are Alfred Bettman and Ladislaus Segoe.

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First issue of a planning journal

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1925. In April, the American City Planning Institute and the National Conference on City Planning publish Vol. 1, No. 1 of City Planning, ancestor of the present-day JAPA.

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Standard City Planning Enabling Act

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1928. US Dept. of Commerce under Secretary Herbert Hoover issues this enabling legislation. Standard State Zoning Enabling Act had been issued in 1924.

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National Planning Board

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1933. Established in the Dept. of the Interior to assist in the preparation of a comprehensive plan for public works under the direction of Frederick Delano, Charles Merriam, and Wesley Mitchell. Its last successor agency, the National Resources Planning Board, was abolished in 1943.

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ASPO

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1934. American Society of Planning Officials founded, an organization for planners, planning commissioners, and planning-related public officials.

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Our Cities: Their Role in the National Economy

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1937. A landmark report by the Urbanism Committee of the National Resources Committee. Ladislaus Segoe headed research staff.

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AIP

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1938. The American Institute of Planners, the planning field's professional organization, states as its purpose "...the planning of the unified development of urban communities and their environs, and of states, regions, and the nation, as expressed through determination of the comprehensive arrangement of land uses and land occupancy and the regulation thereof."

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Planning Function in Urban Government

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1941. Book published by Robert Walker making case for inclusion of planning profession into municipal government.

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Housing Act of 1954

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Stimulated general planning for cities under 25,000 in population by providing funds under S.701 of the Act. "701 funding" later extended by legislative amendments to foster statewide, interstate, and substate regional planning.

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Education for Planning

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1957. A seminal, book-length inquiry into the "appropriate intellectual, practical, and philosophical' basis for the education of city and regional planners. Harvey S. Perloff.

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First approach to defining land use classification in multidimensional terms

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1959. A "Multiple Land Use Classification System" by A. Guttenberg and published in the Journal of the the American Institute of Planners.

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ASCP

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1959. The American Collegiate Schools of Planning. Born when a few department heads of planning schools get together at the annual ASIP conference to confer on common problems and interests in educating planners.

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

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1961. Jane Jacobs includes a critique of planning and planners.

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And on the 8th Day

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1961. A hilarious book of cartoons poking fun at the planning profession by two of our own.

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The Urban General Plan

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1964. T.J. Kent publishes seminal textbook on comprehensive planning.

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1967

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50th Anniversary of planning profession. A celebratory conference held in DC with many of the earliest practitioners and founders in attendance along with eminent leaders of other professions.

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The Wetmore Amendment

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1967. Drops the final phrase in the 1938 AIP declaration of purpose which tied it to the comprehensive arrangement and regulation of land use. The effect is to broaden the scope and membership of the profession by including social planners and physical planners.

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American City Planning since 1890.

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1969. Mel Scott. Reissued in 1995 by APA.

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AIP Code of Ethics

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First adopted in 1971.

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Cleveland Policy Plan Report

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1974. Shifts emphasis from traditional land use planning to policy planning. Krumholz.

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First AIP exam

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1977.

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APA

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1978. AIP & ASPO merge to form APA.

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ACSP

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1980. The Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) is established to represent the academic branch of the planning profession.

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The Journal of Education & Planning Research

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1981. ACSP published the first volume.

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SACRPH

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1986. The first National Conference on American Planning History is held in Columbus OH and leads to the founding of the Society of American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) the following year.

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PAB

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1989. The Planning Accreditation Board is recognized by the Council on Post-Secondary Education to be the sole accrediting agency in the field of professional planning education.

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FAICP

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1999. A College of Fellows is inaugurated by AICP to recognize distinguished individual contributions by longer term AICP members.