AICP Exam Prep – History Questions With Complete Solutions

When and where was the first national planning conference, National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief, held? correct answer: 1909 in Washington, D.C. When and in what school was the first city planning course taught? correct answer: 1909 in Harvard's Landscape Architecture Department Who published 'Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago' ? correct answer: Walter Moody in 1912 What was the first known formal instruction in city planning below college level? correct answer: Chicago Board of Education adopted Wacker's Manual of Plan of Chicago as an 8th grade textbook. Who wrote 'Carrying Out the City Plan'? correct answer: Flavel Shurtleff in 1914 What was the first major textbook on city planning correct answer: 'Carrying out the City Plan' by Flavel Shurtleff When was the American City Planning Institute of Planners (AICP) founded? correct answer: 1917 Who was the first president of American City Planning Institute of Planners (AICP)? correct answer: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. When and to what was the American City Planning Institute of Planners? correct answer: in 1939 to American Institute of Planners (AIP) By who and when was the first issue of 'City Planning' (before the current Journal of the American Planning Association)? correct answer: In 1925 by American City Planning Institute and the National Conference of City Planning. When was the American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) founded? correct answer: 1934 When did the AIP adopt a Code of Ethics for professional Planners? correct answer: 1917 When was the first AIP membership administered correct answer: 1977 When was the American Planning Association created? correct answer: 1978 How was the American Planning Association created? correct answer: Merger of AIP and ASPO When did the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning publish the first issue of 'The journal of Planning Education and Research'? correct answer: 1981