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02_Fundamental_PEOPLE AND HISTORY Flashcards

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Who said there is a need for “deliberate, abstract thought” devoted to what we mean by a good city?

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Lawrence Haworth (author of The Good City, 1963)

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Who wrote about carrying capacity to support a community in illustrating future growth?

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Ian McHarg

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What was Aristotle’s view on city planning?

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Streets planned in a grid look nice but are not effective at deterring invaders. Streets that are less easily navigated promote security.

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Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit Concept proposes an ideal neighborhood that creates walkability and access. Which of the following best describes the size of the neighborhood unit?

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5,000 - 9,000 residents

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Which city was the first to adopt a comprehensive plan?

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Cincinnati

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What 2002 document by Stuart Meck, FAICP, provides state and local governments with tools for better growth?

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The Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook

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Who is considered the pioneer of urban planning because of his plan for a city of 50,000 that addressed administrative structure, social structure, and land subdivision?

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Hippodamus of Miletus

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What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do?

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Allowed public lands to be sold for a nominal fee.

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What program evolved out of efforts to implement planning requirements of the Housing Act of 1949 and became a signature program expanding local planning across the United States?

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Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954

(provided funding for local comprehensive planning)

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Which planned community built in 1923 foreshadowed the New Urbanism movement?

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Mariemont, Ohio

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In his term as Planning Director of the City of Cleveland, Norman Krumholz utilized which of the following planning theories?

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Advocacy

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What planner is associated with the idea of Transit Oriented Development?

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Peter Calthorpe (founding member of the Congress for New Urbanism)

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What are three reasons the 1909 Plan of Chicago was revolutionary in planning history?

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-Initiated and paid for by private business owners.

-Addressed areas outside the central city.

-Citizens of the city were educated about the plan.

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What were Greenbelt Towns?

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Provided affordable housing for federal government workers

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Who was the head of the United States Resettlement Administration?

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Rex Tugman

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Under what authority was the Resettlement Administration developed?

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Emergency Relief Appropriation Act

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Name three Greenbelt Towns

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-Greenbelt, MD

-Greenhills, OH

-Greendale, WI

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Who was Saul Alinksy?

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-Community organizer in Chicago

-Wrote Rules for Radicals as a guide for community organizers

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What is Ebenezer Howard known for?

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Garden Cities movement

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When was he first National Conference on City Planning held?

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1909

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Which city had the first regional plan?

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Chicago

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Who is Kevin Lynch?

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-He wrote Th Image of the City

-Described how people experience the city through paths and nodes

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What act did the U.S. Department of Commerce pass in 1928?

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Standard City Planning Enabling Act

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What three cities are known for cross-jurisdictional planning?

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-Portland, OR

-Columbus, OH

-Phoenix, AZ

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Who is the Father of Zoning?

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Edward Bassett

(wrote the NYC Zoning Ordinance in 1916)

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What is the Southdale Center?

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first indoor, climate-controlled regional mall built in the U.S.

(Designed by Victor Gruen in Edina, Minnesota)

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Which city had the first metropolitan plan in the United States?

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Chicago

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Which city was the first to pass a zoning ordinance?

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San Francisco

(1867)

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Which city adopted the first comprehensive zoning ordinance?

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New York City

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What is Pullman?

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-A neighborhood on the south side of Chicago.

-Historic Pullman was a company town built in the 1880s by George Pullman for his railroad car company (Pullman Palace Car Company)

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What prompted the rebellion in Pullman?

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George Pullman sought to raise rents without raising worker pay.

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Who was repsonoisble for the 19th century recreation of Paris?

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Georges-Eugene Haussmann

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What was the official name of the 1944 G.I. Bill?

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Servicemen’s Readjustment Act.

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Who was the first full-time planner for a United States city?

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Harland Bartholomew

35
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What is the national rate of homeownership?

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65%

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What is the HOPE VI program?

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-Changed the way that HUD approached housing assistance for the poor

-Replaced severely distressed public housing projects with redesigned mixed-income housing

-Provided housing vouchers for residents to seek housing on the private market

-Failed to address the many African Americans who continue to live in uninhabitable housing

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What is the significance of Seaside, FL?

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It is a neotraditional community built on the principles of new urbanism

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What feature characterizes Columbia, Maryland?

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a. Self contained villages and neighborhood clusters

b. Prior land assembly

c. Jobs-housing balance

(-1963
-Rouse Company
-14,000-acre master planned development)

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What four elements describe T.J. Kent’s comprehensive plan in The Urban General Plan?

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  1. Long range and general
  2. Adopted at one time with all elements integrated
  3. Focused on the physical development implications of socio-economic policies
  4. Identified as the City Council’s offical plan
40
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How did federal housing policies in the 1940’s and 50’s undermine the ability of African American families to build wealth?

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-Demolished integrated neighborhoods in order to create segregated public housing

-Development of the suburbs was federally subsidized on a condition that they be only sold to white families

-Suburban homes often had deeds that prohibited resale to African Americans

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What are the top 3 rungs of Arnstein’s ladder? (Citizen Control)

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(8) Citizen Control
(7) Delegation
(6) Partnership

42
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What are the middle 3 rungs of Arnstein’s ladder? (Tokenism)

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(5) Placation
(4) Consultation
(3) Informing

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What are the bottom 2 rungs of Arnstein’s ladder? (Nonparticipation)

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(2) Therapy
(1) Manipulation

44
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The US population has more than {blank} since 1950

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doubled

45
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Harland Bartholomew wrote a {blank} for {blank}

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comprehensive plan; St. Louis

46
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What is Satisficing?

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decision-making strategy where individuals only search for possible solutions until they find an acceptable option.

47
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Who introduced the concept of Satisficing?

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Herbert Simon

48
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What is one of the key reasons for an increase in homelessness since the 1990s?

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Federal repeal and cuts to programs that assist the poor

49
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The average American house size has more than {blank} since the 1950s

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doubled

50
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Which agency exemplifies the regionalism movement of Geddes?

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Tennessee Valley Authority

51
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What was Pruitt-Igoe?

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-Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe

-joint urban housing projects

-1954

-St. Louis

-33 eleven-story high rises, designed in the modernist architectural style

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Who was the first African-American to serve in the US Cabinet (head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development)?

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Robert Weaver

(1966 to 1968, under Johnson)

53
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What is the Vieux Carré?

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-The New Orleans French Quarter

-oldest section of the City

-National Historic Landmark

54
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Women hold {blank} percent of Fortune 500 CEO roles

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7.4

55
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MacMillian Committee

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-1901

-headed by Daniel Burnham

-charged with resurrecting L’Enfant’s plan for Washington D.C.

56
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{blank} has approximately 70,000 vacant lots making up approximately {blank} of the land area

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Detroit; 27%

57
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Who designed Columbia, Maryland?

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James Rouse

58
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What is Peter Drucker associated with?

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Management by Objectives (MBO)

59
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Who was the father of the modern housing code?

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Lawrence Veiller

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What was the Village of Mariemont?

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-John Nolen

-Based on Garden City principles.

-One of the earliest Garden Cities to be designed with the automobile in mind.

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Kevin Lynch made the argument that there are 3 types of planning theories:

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-theories that are used to predict things
-theories about decision making
-normative theory

62
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What could reasonably be described as the largest single act of national planning in our history?

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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What was the Morrill Act?

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-1862

-Congress passed

-Authorized that proceeds from the sale of land were to be used to found colleges offering agriculture, engineering, etc.

-Basis of land-grant colleges.

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The Wheeler-Howard Act restored {blank} to Native Americans in order to create an economic foundation for residents.

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land management

65
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What is another name for the Indian Reorganization Act?

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Wheeler-Howard Act

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What was the goal of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act?

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-decreasing federal control of American Indian affairs

-increasing Indian self-government and responsibility.

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What agency is the primary builder of federal dams in the western US, such as Hoover Dam?

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U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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What is the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR)?

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Federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior.

-oversees water resource management related to irrigation, water supply, and hydroelectric power generation in the western US.

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The {blank} of 1948 was amended in 1972 and became known as the Clean Water Act.

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Federal Water Pollution Control Act

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Why was the Water Quality Act of 1965 adopted?

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to ensure the quality of surface and groundwater.

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The {blank}, adopted in {blank}, is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.

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Clean Water Act; 1972

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{blank} was Cleveland planner Norman Krumholz’s preferred term for advocacy planning

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equity planning

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What are the core values of planning?

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  1. democratic engagement
  2. diversity
  3. equity and social justice
  4. healthy and prosperous communities
  5. public interest
  6. sustainability
  7. transparency

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