Planning History, Theory, and Law

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Planning History, Theory, and Law

• AICP Exam Overview

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History

• Pre 1924
• 1868 Riverside, Illinois
• 1893 National Road terminates in Vandalia,
  Illinois
• 1898 Tomorrow A Peaceful Path for Real Reform
• 1903 Letchworth, England
• 1909 Plan for Chicago
• 1921 New Orleans Vieux Carre Commission

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History

• 1924 to 1954
• 1933 Tennessee Valley Authority
• 1934 National Housing Act
• 1937 US Housing Act (Wagnerr-Steagall)
• 1944 GI Bill
• 1949 Housing Act
• Housing Act of 1954

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History

• 1955 to 1980
• 1961 The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• 1962 Reston, Virginia
• 1965 Department of Housing and Urban Development
• 1966 Demonstration Cities
• 1969 Design with Nature
• 1969 NEPA
• 1970 Clean Air Act
• 1973 Endangered Species Act
• 1980 CERCLA establishes Superfund

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History

• 1980 to present
• 1983 Mt. Laurel
• 1984 Seaside, Florida
• 1991 Passage of ISTEA
• 1993 Enterprise Zone/Enterprise Communities
• 1998 TEA -21

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Theory

• Movements
• Garden Cities
• Public Health
• City Beautiful
• Greenbelt Towns
• New Towns

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Theory

• Approaches to Planning
• Rational Choice
• Incremental Planning
• Transactive Planning
• Advocacy Planning

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Theory

• Spatial Organization
• Central Place Theory
• Concentric Theory
• Sector Theory
• Multiple Nuclei Theory

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Theory

• Planning Organizations
• 1917 American City Planning Institute
• 1934 American Society of Planning Officials
• 1939 ACPI renamed American Institute of Planning
• 1978 ASPO and AIP merge to form the American
  Planning Association

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Law

• Laws
• 1916 NYC Comprehensive Zoning
• 1924 Standard State Zoning Enabling Act
• 1928 Standard City Planning Enabling Act
• 1961 Hawaii Statewide Zoning
• 1934 National Housing Act
• 1937 US Housing Act (Wagnerr-Steagall)
• 1944 GI Bill
• 1949 Housing Act
• Housing Act of 1954

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Law

• 1969 NEPA
• 1970 Clean Air Act
• 1973 Endangered Species Act
• 1980 CERCLA establishes Superfund
• 1991 Passage of ISTEA
• 1993 Enterprise Zone/Enterprise Communities
• 1998 TEA -21
• 2005? SAFETEA?

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Law

• Case Law
• 1922 PA Coal v. Mahon
• 1926 Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Company
• 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,
  Kansas
• 1972 Golden v. Planning Board of Ramapo
• 1983 Mt. Laurel

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Law

• 1987 First English Evangelical Lutheran Church
  vs. County of LA
• 1987 Nollan v. California Costal Commission
• 1992 Lucas v. South Carolina Costal Council
• 1994 Dolan v. City of Tigard
• 2002 Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council v. Tahoe
  Regional Planning Commission