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City Planner Flashcards

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City Beautiful Movement

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Movement to introduce beauty and monumental grandeur into cities

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World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893

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Origin of the City Beautiful Movement

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Daniel Burnham

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Founder of the City Beautiful Movement

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Garden City Movement

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Method of planning self-contained communities are surrounded by “greenbelts”, containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture. Started in 1898

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Ebenezer Howard

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Founder of the Garden City Movement

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Multiple Dwelling Law

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Establishes standards for buildings with 3 or more units

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City street ideal speed limit

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15-25mph

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Greenbelt Towns

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The resettlement agency relocated struggling families to planned government communities during the Great Depression. The agency stopped after 3 communities

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Circumferential Transit Line

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Transit line that travels the outskirt of a CBD

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Incremental Growth

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Growth by same number each year

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Semi-lotharithmic graph paper

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Each section of the paper is in exponential units

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12
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Floor-area ratio

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Floor area / Lot area

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Acre in Square Feet

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43,560

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Square Mile in Acres

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640

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15
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Municipal Loan Program

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Provides loans to rehabilitate apartment buildings

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Radburn, NJ

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Designed to have backyards on the streets, and entrances facing each other.

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Reston, VA

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Focuses on walkability, nature, and diversity.

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Railroad Flat

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Home where all rooms connect to one hallway

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Critical Path Method

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A form of scheduling operations against time periods and resources.

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Performance Bond

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A bond ensuring a contractor will execute the terms of a contract.

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Planned Unit Development

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Housing spaced close together to net more open space

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Superblock

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Very large city block. Benefit is that it improves the separation of vehicular and pedestrian circulation

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Input-output economic model

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A technique designed for the analysis of national economies and which employs an industry interaction model appearing in the form of a multi-sector or industrial matrix

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Cohort Survival Model

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Estimates future population based on survival of existing population

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Official City Map

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Shows right-of-ways and corporate boundaries.

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EPA Designated Air Pollutants

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Ozone, Particulate, Carbon Monoxide, Lead, Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide

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Neighborhood-unit Concept

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Arterials on the outside, residences and community centers on the inside

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New Towns Movement

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English planned communities to alleviate congestion

29
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Percolation Test

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Customary test made to determine the ability of a soil to drain off liquids, such as those discharged by a cesspool

30
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Mitchell-Lama Housing Law

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Housing program intended for middle-income families.

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Defensible Space

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Idea that public areas should be placed adjacent to areas of activity.

32
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Model Cities Program

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LBJ’s planning program focused on poverty

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Special Revenue Sharing

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Intended to replace money previously distributed to cities for categorical gains

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Turnkey Housing

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A method of housing construction whereby a private developer finances and constructs the housing to the city’s standards and the housing is then purchased by the city

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Year the first US Housing Act was passed

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1937

36
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Distance large street trees should be planted apart

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50-75

37
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Broadacre City concept

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Every citizen gets an acre of land

38
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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Promoted the Broadacre City Concept

39
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High density - Low Coverage principle

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Tall buildings on big lots.

40
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Le Corbusier

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Proposed the High density - Low Coverage principle

41
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Patrick Geddes

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Strongly believed social structures and spacial forms were related

42
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Sir Patrick Abercrombie

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Replanned a number of cities, including post-war London.

43
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Sir Raymond Unwin

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Emphasized improvements in working-class housing

44
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Clarence Perry

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Created the Neighborhood Unit Concept

45
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Cluster Zoning

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Prioritizes Density and Open Space

46
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HUD’s Operation Breakthrough

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Encouraged innovated prefabricated systems of construction.

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Slope Formula

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Rise over Run

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Riparian Rights

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Rights to property owners along water

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Overimprovement

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Refers to improvement on a land in excess of the need. It is over in the sense that it does not make the best use of the property, or is excessive in comparison with the improvement of similar properties.

50
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Capital Project

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Improvement of a City Asset

51
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Special Assessment

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Additional Taxes

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Condemnation

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Eminent Domain

53
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Plat

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A map or drawing, prepared in accordance with local regulations, showing the divisions of the tract of land and the layout of a proposed subdivision

54
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Defined Channel

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Any natural watercourse, even if it is dry.

55
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Interstate Commerce law of 1887

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First Federal law to regulate industry

56
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Jones V Mayer

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(1968) Congress can regulate the sale of private property to prevent racial discrimination.

57
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Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1968

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Prevents real estate sale on the basis of race and sex

58
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Stock Cooperative

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Corporation-owned real estate, where an owner owns shares

59
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Fair Market Value

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The highest price land would bring if fairly exposed for sale in the open market.

60
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Cordon Count

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Vehicle and person surveys that provide time series data of traffic flow across a given set of screen-lines.

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