1950-1959

Main Milestones

1951 - Chandigarh Master Plan, Le Corbusier. [URB]

1952 - General Plan for Stockholm, William William-Olsson. [PPP]

1953 - Town Design, Frederick Gibberd, The Architectural Press. [URB]

1954 - European Cultural Convention, Paris, Council of Europe. [HER, TDC]

1954 - Vallingby ABC District Plan (Stockholm), Sven Marlelius. [PPP]

1955 - Brasilia Plan, Lucio Costa. [PPP]

1956 - Cambernauld New Town Master Plan, L. Hugh Wilson. [PPP]

1957 - Education for Planning, Harvey S. Perloff. [URB]

1958 - The Public Establishment for Installation of La Défense (EPAD), Paris. [PWO, PPP, TDC]

1958 - Ville Spatiale, Yona Friedman. [URB]

List of Milestones

1950 - Bezirk Mite Plan, Berlin, K. Junghanns. [PPP]

1950 - European Convention on Human Rights, Council of Europe. [HIS]

1950 - Keukenhof Gardens, Jan David Zocher and Louis Paul Zocher. [GRE]

1950 - Landscape for Living, Garrett Eckbo, Duell, Sloan & Pearce. [GRE]

1950 - Ottawa Plan, J.J. Greber. [PPP]

1950 - Washington Plan. [PPP]

1950 – Garrett Eckbo, Landscape for Living, Duell, Sloan & Pearce. [GRE]

1951 - 8th CIAM, Hoddesdon. [URB, TDC]

1951 - Chandigarh Master Plan, Le Corbusier. [URB]

1951 - Toward New Towns for America – Clarence S. Stein, Liverpool. [URB, SPL]

1952 - Berlin Plan. [PPP]

1952 - First commercial airliner to have turbojet propulsion, British Comet. [INF]

1952 - General Plan for Stockholm, William William-Olsson. [PPP]

1952 - Last tram circulating in London. [INF]

1952 - Principles and Practice of Town and Country Planning, Lewis Keeble, London, The Estates Gazette. [URB, SPL]

1952 - Town Development Act, UK. [URB, SPL, LEG]

1953 - Poliomyelitis vaccine, Jonas Salk. [HIS]

1953 - 9th CIAM,Aix-en-Provence. [URB, TDC]

1953 - DNA discover, James Watson and Francis Crick. [HIS]

1953 - First correct double-helix model of DNA structure, James D. Watson and Francis Crick. [HIS]

1953 - Town Design, Frederick Gibberd, The Architectural Press. [URB]

1954 - Draft General Plan for Copenhagen. [PPP]

1954 - European Cultural Convention, Paris, Council of Europe. [HER, TDC]

1954 - Hague Convention on Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict. [HER, TDC]

1954 - Housing Act, UK. [HOU, LEG]

1954 - Oral contraceptive pills, Geoege Pincus and John Rock. [HIS]

1954 - Vallingby ABC District Plan (Stockholm), Sven Marlelius. [PPP]

1955 - Air Pollution Control Act, UK. [ENV, LEG]

1955 - Brasilia Plan, Lucio Costa. [PPP]

1956 - Artificial Intelligence Concept. [HIS]

1956 - 10th CIAM, Dubrovnick. [URB, TDC]

1956 - Barbican, London, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon. [PWO, PPP]

1956 - Cambernauld New Town Master Plan, L. Hugh Wilson. [PPP]

1956 - Economics of Planned Development, Nathaniel Lichfield, London, The Estates Gazette. [ECO]

1956 - Location and Space-economy, a General Theory Relating to Industrial Location, Market Areas, Land Use, Trade, and Urban Structure, Walter Isard, MIT Press, Cambridge. [ECO, SPL]

1956 – Malmo Transport Corridor Towards Copenhagen. [INF]

1957 - Education for Planning, Harvey S. Perloff. [URB]

1957 - Internationale Bauausstellung Berlin, International Building Exhibition. [URB, TDC]

1957 - The First International Congress of Architects and Specialists of Historic Buildings, Paris. [HER, TDC]

1958 - Assisi Plan, by Giovanni Astengo. [PPP]

1958 - International Center for the study of the Preservation and Restauration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), Rome. [HER, TDC]

1958 - The Public Establishment for Installation of La Défense (EPAD), Paris. [PWO, PPP, TDC]

1958 - Ville Spatiale, Yona Friedman. [URB]

1959 - Bijlmermeer Plan, Amsterdam. [PPP]

1959 - Organic plan for the city and agglomeration of Paris, Maurice Rotival. [PPP]

1959 - Plan d’Urbanisme de Paris, Préfecture de la Seine. [PPP]