ABSTRACT

The Regional Survey endorsed the recommendations of the Department of Commerce committee, urging New York City to acquire three sites in addition to the Floyd Bennett development. The New York Region was demographically far more heterogeneous and politically more complex than the City of Chicago. Representatives of New York City and the three states accepted the Plan for their jurisdictions in a ceremony reminiscent of that autumn day in Chicago two decades earlier, when Burnham's Plan had been presented to Chicago city officials by Charles Norton and Frederic A. Delano. A separate School of City Planning was subsequently established as a result of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, and a chair of Regional Planning in honor of Charles Dyer Norton was endowed by Norton's friend, James F. Curtis. The 1928 conference was a turning point in planning education, for it established the identity of a separate profession of planning and the need for trained planners independent of other disciplines.