The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign appointed the first Professor of City Planning in the United States in Charles Mulford Robinson, who was welcomed to the Division of Landscape Architecture in 1913. Below are major milestones in the Department's history. Click here for a list of planning faculty at UIUC since 1913.
| 1907 |
The Division of Landscape Gardening initiates degree
program within the Department of Horticulture.
|
| 1912 |
The Division of Landscape Architecture created. Only
Illinois and Harvard offer planning programs with studios
and workshops. |
| 1913 |
Charles
Mulford Robinson appointed
Professor of Civic Design. |
| 1920 |
The Bachelor of
Fine Arts in Landscape Architecture approved. The degree
has a concentration in city and regional planning. |
| 1924 |
Library
established in Mumford Hall. |
| 1931 |
The Division of Landscape Architecture restructured into the Department of Landscape
Architecture in the College of Fine and Applied Arts.
|
| 1934 |
The
Bureau of Community Planning, an
extension and research unit, established. |
| 1945 |
The
Master of City Planning degree
approved. |
| 1953 |
The
Bachelor of Fine Arts in City Planning created. |
| 1954 |
The Department is renamed the Department of City Planning
and Landscape Architecture, incorporating the Bureau of
Community Planning. UIUC is one of sixteen university
planning programs in the U.S.
|
| 1965 |
Two separate departments formed. The new Department
of Urban and Regional Planning offers a Bachelor of Arts in Urban
Planning and a Master of Urban Planning.
|
| 1983 |
The Ph.D. in Regional
Planning authorized. |
| 1995 |
The Department moves
to its current location in Temple Hoyne Buell Hall. |
