Firsts by City
1st Comprehensive Plan
Cincinnati, OH
1st urban growth boundary
Lexington, KY
1st course in city planning
Harvard
1st municipally employed city planner
Harland Bartholomew - 1914
What year was the 1st model tenement built and what city?
1855 in Manhattan
1st Council of Governments
Detroit, MI
1st zoning code and what year
NYC in 1916
1st initiative to educate children on city planning
Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago by Walter Moody
1st African American appointed to a cabinet position with The Department of Housing and Urban Development
Robert Weaver
Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, MO in 1922 by J.C. Nichols
1st city to adopt a Historic District Ordinance.
vs. 1st city to establish Historic Preservation Commission.
1st Historic District Ordinance: Charleston, SC.
1st Historic Preservation Commission: New Orleans, LA
1st instance of rural zoning
Wisconsin
1st legal framework and major textbook for city planning
Carrying Out The City Plan by Olmstead Sr.
1st African American to earn a masters degree in planning, what yr, and what school?
Samuel Cullers, MIT, 1952. (Known for challenging the inability to rent an apartment due to race in McKinley Park, Hartford, CT.)
1st "Planned Residential Community" zoning district
Reston, VA
1st official city planning commission
Hartford, CT
1st "Planned Unit Development"
Prince George, MD
What year was the 1st code of conduct written for planners and by what organization?
1948 by the American Institute of Planners
1st female to join American City Planning Institute
Elisabeth May Herlihy
What year was the 1st transcontinental railroad built? What railroads lines were involved?
1869, The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads (they meet at Promontory Point, Utah)
Where was the 1st national conference on planning held
Washington D.C. in 1909
Where was the 1st regional city planning commission?
1st federation protection for preserving archeological sites? What year?
Antiquities Act 1906
Who wrote the 1st planning "green book" and in what year?
Ladislas Segoe in 1941
1st English Garden City and built in what year?
Letchworth, 1903