VERY UNofficial: An AICP Study Guide Podcast Jonathan Miller, MPA, AICP, GISP

We're taking a short break to let you know about a new planning podcast coming your way.  Booked on Planning is a podcast that goes deep into the planning books that have helped shape the world of community and regional planning.  Stephanie Rouse, AICP - Professional Development Office of the Nebraska APA and host of the upcoming podcast - joins to talk about how the podcast came to be, what it's all about, and how it can help out AICP hopefuls and planning veterans alike.
 
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In the 1930’s, the U.S. was taking conservation seriously.  We put together a massive regional authority to handle conservation and energy issues in the Tennessee Valley, but we also attacked the growing issue called the Dust Bowl with two major Acts:  The Taylor Grazing Act and the Soil Conservation Act.
 
The Tennessee Valley Authority:
https://www.tva.com/About-TVA/Our-History
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/history-of-the-tva
 
The Taylor Grazing Act:
Taylor Grazing Act | Legislation | US Encyclopedia of law (lawi.us)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Grazing_Act_of_1934
 
The Soil Conservation Act:
https://livingnewdeal.org/glossary/soil-conservation-act-1935/
Honoring 86 Years of NRCS – A Brief History | NRCS (usda.gov)

FDR and National Planning seem to go hand-in-hand.  Because they do.  Literally.  Planning on a national level spanned almost the exact same time frame as FDR’s Presidency, and FDR just wouldn’t like it go away; bringing it back under name after name after name.  Both Started in 1933, and National Planning died in 1943, two years before FDR.  This one’s all about the blip on the planning radar called, National Planning.

The National Planning Board:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/economics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/national-resources-planning-board-nrpb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Works_Administration
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file send?accession=osu1486652373261456& disposition=attachment

National Planning Board Final Report
https://archive.org/details/finalreport1933to1934unitrich/page/n7/mode/2up

National Resources Planning Board
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resources_Board_of_1934
https://archive.org/details/reportonnational1934unitrich/page/n7/mode/2up

Regional Factors in National Planning
https://www.amazon.com/Regional-National-Development-Resources-Committee/dp/1297819470
https://archive.org/details/regionalfactorsi1935unitrich?ref=ol&view=theater

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.  Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage.  This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms.  Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in the crusade to restore America to its own people.
-FDR, July 2nd, 1932
 
FDR Inauguration and the New Deal Pitch:
http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/seehowtheyran/portfolios/1932-fdrs-first-presidential-campaign/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#:~:text=The%20New%20Deal%20was%20a,enacted%20by%20President%20Franklin%20D.&text=The%20New%20Deal%20included%20new,after%20prices%20had%20fallen%20sharply.
 
Civilian Conservation Corps:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-civilian-conservation-corps.htm#:~:text=Roosevelt%20established%20the%20Civilian%20Conservation,lands%2C%20forests%2C%20and%20parks.
 
Federal Relief Administration Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Emergency_Relief_Administration
https://livingnewdeal.org/glossary/federal-emergency-relief-administration-fera-1933-1935/
 
The Agricultural Adjustment Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act
https://livingnewdeal.org/glossary/agricultural-adjustment-act-1933-re-authorized-1938-2/
 
Home Owner’s Loan Corporation:
https://livingnewdeal.org/glossary/home-owners-loan-act-1933/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Owners%27_Loan_Corporation

Well, saying goodbye to the roaring 20’s was bittersweet.  Actually, it was just bitter.  Bitter and depressing.  When the good times from the 20’s caught up to everyone in October of 1929, the markets came crashing down.  But why? And did we try and do anything to stop it?
 
The Great Depression:
https://www.britannica.com/story/causes-of-the-great-depression
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/great-depression-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
 
Wall Street Crash of 1929:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/1929-stock-market-crash
 
Conference on Land Utilization (1931) & the Dust Bowl:
https://archive.org/details/CAT10505778/page/46/mode/2up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
 
Reconstruction Finance Corporation:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Reconstruction-Finance-Corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Finance_Corporation
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-depression
 
Federal Home Loan Bank Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Home_Loan_Bank_Act
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/federal-home-loan-bank-act.asp

Get your motor runnin’, head out on the highway! Because the federal government ponied up some money in 1916 to make sure the roads were all in good condition.  Or you can always head out on the parkway that New York built in 1919, and of course, you can always take your highway out to the first regional suburban shopping center too.
 
Transportation Epochs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borchert%27s_Epochs#:~:text=Borchert's%20epochs%20refer%20to%20five,of%20growth%20of%20American%20cities.
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=geosciences_facpub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5gDWNE7rfs
 
1916 Federal Highway Act:
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/96summer/p96su2.cfm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aid_Road_Act_of_1916
https://historylink.org/File/7243
 
1919 First Parkway in the U.S.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_River_Parkway
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/X004/history
http://npshistory.com/publications/colo/colo-pkwy-context.pdf
 
1922 First Auto-Oriented Shopping Center:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Club_Plaza
https://www.visitkc.com/2017/06/27/today-i-learned-history-behind-country-club-plaza