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City Planner Reversed Flashcards

1
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Movement to introduce beauty and monumental grandeur into cities

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City Beautiful Movement

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Origin of the City Beautiful Movement

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World’s Columbian Expedition of 1893

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Founder of the City Beautiful Movement

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Daniel Burnham

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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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Garden City Movement

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5
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Founder of the Garden City Movement

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Ebenezer Howard

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6
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Establishes standards for buildings with 3 or more units

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Multiple Dwelling Law

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7
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15-25mph

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City street ideal speed limit

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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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Greenbelt Towns

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9
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Transit line that travels the outskirt of a CBD

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Circumferential Transit Lines

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10
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Growth by same number each year

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Incremental Growth

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11
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Each section of the paper is in exponential units

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Semi-lotharithmic graph paper

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12
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Floor area / Lot area

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Floor-area ratio

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13
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43,560

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Acre in Square Feet

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14
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640

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Square Mile in Acres

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15
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Provides loans to rehabilitate apartment buildings

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Municipal Loan Program

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16
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Designed to have backyards on the streets, and entrances facing each other.

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Radburn, NJ

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17
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Focuses on walkability, nature, and diversity.

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Reston, VA

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18
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Home where all rooms connect to one hallway

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Railroad Flat

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19
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A form of scheduling operations against time periods and resources.

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Critical Path Method

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20
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A bond ensuring a contractor will execute the terms of a contract.

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Performance Bond

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21
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Housing spaced close together to net more open space

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Planned-unit Development

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22
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Very large city block. Benefit is that it improves the separation of vehicular and pedestrian circulation

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Superblock

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23
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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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Input-output economic model

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24
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Estimates future population based on survival of existing population

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Cohort Survival Model

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25
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Shows right-of-ways and corporate boundaries.

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Official City Map

26
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Ozone, Particulate, Carbon Monoxide, Lead, Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide

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EPA Designated Air Pollutants

27
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Arterials on the outside, residences and community centers on the inside

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Neighborhood-unit Concept

28
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English planned communities to alleviate congestion

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New Towns Movement

29
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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

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Percolation Test

30
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Housing program intended for middle-income families.

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Mitchell Lama Housing Law

31
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Idea that public areas should be placed adjacent to areas of activity.

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Defensible Space

32
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LBJ’s planning program focused on poverty

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Model Cities Program

33
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Intended to replace money previously distributed to cities for categorical gains

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Special Revenue Sharing

34
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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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Turnkey Housing

35
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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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Every citizen gets an acre of land

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Broadacre City Concept

38
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Promoted the Broadacre City Concept

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Frank Lloyd Wright

39
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Tall buildings on Small lots

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High density - Low Coverage principle

40
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Proposed the High density - Low Coverage principle

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Le Corbusier

41
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Strongly believed social structures and spacial forms were related

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Patrick Geddes

42
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Replanned a number of cities, including post-war London.

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Sir Patrick Abercrombie

43
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Emphasized improvements in working-class housing

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Sir Raymond Unwin

44
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Created the Neighborhood Unit Concept

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Clarence Perry

45
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Prioritizes Density and Open Space

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Cluster Zoning

46
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Encouraged innovated prefabricated systems of construction.

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HUD’s Operation Breakthrough

47
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Rise over Run

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Slope Formula

48
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Rights to property owners along water

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Riparian Rights

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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.

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Overimprovement

50
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Improvement of a City Asset

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Capital Project

51
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Additional Taxes

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Special Assessment

52
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Eminent Domain

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Condemnation

53
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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

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Plat

54
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Any natural watercourse, even if it is dry.

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Defined Channel

55
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First Federal law to regulate industry

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Interstate Commerce law of 1887

56
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(1968) Congress can regulate the sale of private property to prevent racial discrimination.

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Jones v Mayer

57
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Prevents real estate sale on the basis of race and sex

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Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1968

58
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Corporation-owned real estate, where an owner owns shares

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Stock Cooperative

59
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The highest price land would bring if fairly exposed for sale in the open market.

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Fair Market Value

60
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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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Cordon Count

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