Fundamental Planning Knowledge Flashcards
Ebenezer Howard would be most likely to promote the design and construction of
Garden Cities
Who is the person who introduced the concept of Satisficing?
Herbert Simon
Your AICP certification was revoked five years ago and you wish to seek reinstatement. How would you pursue reinstatement?
Submit a petition to the AICP Ethics Committee
How many people will each metropolitan statistical area contain?
Each metropolitan statistical area will contain at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more people
How many people will each micropolitan statistical area contain?
each micropolitan statistical area will contain at least one urban cluster of at least 10,000 and less than 50,000 people
What is a binary variable?
are variables which only take two values. For example, Male or Female, True or False and Yes or No
In Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Commission, the US Supreme Court considered a regulation adopted pursuant to SC’s Beachfront Management Act that limited development on beachfront property. In that case, the Court held:
that where a law or regulation deprives an owner of all economically beneficial use of property, the owner is entitled to compensation as if the government had taken the property for public use.
Which of the following amendments to the United States Constitution prohibits governments from taking private property without just compensation?
Fifth
Aging in place means
allowing one to stay in one’s own home
In this Supreme Court case, the court found that the Fifth Amendment did not require a literal public use. The majority said, but the “broader and more natural interpretation of public use as ‘public purpose.’”
Kelo v. City of New London
Prior to the advent of comprehensive zoning ordinances, how did local governments deal with land use?
Nuisance laws
Which is the most common technique used to resolve conflict?
Feedback and compromise
In order to improve the sample reliability, which of the following should you do?
Increase the sample size
Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit concept
identifies 5-9,000 residents with a density of 10 units per acre and a school at the center and buildings around the edges for shopping.
What is the average width of a parking space in a parking lot?
9 feet
Associated Home Builders of Greater East Bay v. City of Livermore dealt with which of the following issues?
The Associated Home Builders case was related to when building permits could be developed based on the availability of infrastructure.
What is a colocation facility?
A building that provides space which is leased by the rack, cabinet, cage or room
II. A shared building that provides security, cooling, power, and bandwidth
Charles Lindblom is associated with
Incremental planning theories
Nominal Group Technique
allows for brainstorming allowing for all members of a group to meaningfully participate. There are silent times allowing for idea generation followed by individual sharing of ideas.
arbitration
Arbitration is a form of dispute resolution. In arbitration an independent third party makes a judicial determination of a dispute. Arbitration is commonly used in union contract disputes.
Agins v. City of Tiburon established that a regulation is a taking if
A regulation is a taking if it deprives the property of all economic value and does not advance a governmental interest. A temporary deprivation does not cause a taking.
Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit Concept (1929) was published in which of the following plans?
Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs
Advocacy planning
emphasized the importance of planning for the needs of diverse groups of stakeholders in the community.
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act requires that
religious freedom not be interrupted by treating churches with stronger requirements than other like uses.
Brownfields are
contaminated industrial sites
Greenfields refer to
land that is not currently used for development
Grayfields are
former development sights that are not contaminated
Browntowns refers to
cities with minority mayors
stratified sample
has the population divided into strata according to variables that are thought to be related to the variables of interest. Then a sample is taken from every stratum. This is intended to reduce sampling error because the strata are related to the variables of interest in this case housing values
location quotient of 0.50
A score lower than one means importing employment and greater than one means exporting employment
A metropolitan planning organization (MPO)
is a transportation policy-making organization made up of representatives from local government and transportation authorities.
Beneficiary assessments are
used by the World Bank and other development organizations to make sure that project beneficiaries can provide insights on how a project will affect them, particularly the poor and those without political power.
Mugler v. Kansas
found that while a person has the right to make alcohol for their own use, such a right can be conditioned on its effect on others.
What did the Indian Reorganization Act provide for?
Organization of Native Americans residing on reservations
Adoption of constitutions for Native Americans living on reservations
What is downzoning?
Reducing the intensity of zoning on a site
Drosscape is
an urban design framework that examines urbanized regions as the product of past economic and industrial processes.
The concept of drosscape was developed by
Alan Berger
Local roads have a design speed of
25-35 MPH
Which of the following bodies is responsible for the review of historic preservation applications at the federal level
Department of the Interior
Basic activities are
those that can be exported, such as automotive manufacturing.
The New York State Tenement House Law was passed in
1901
The New York State Tenement House Law resulted in
I. Outlawing dumbbell tenements
II. Increased plumbing in apartment buildings
III. Increased number of windows
Dillon’s rule
local governments are limited to the powers expressly granted to them by their state
MAP-21 provides funding for
I. Passenger Rail
II. Public Transit
III. Bicycle Paths
IV. Pedestrian Paths
Who designed Radburn, New Jersey?
Henry Wright
FAR
Floor Area Ratio is calculated by multiplying the total lot area by the Floor Area Ratio
Critical Path Method
is a project management technique.
Delphi is
a citizen participation technique
ZBB is
a budgeting technique
Transfer of development rights allows for
denser development in some areas through the purchase of development rights in rural areas that are desired for protection.
Judith Innes
is associated with consensus building
Norman Krumholz
is associated with equity planning.
Which of the following was an important outcome of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Company?
I. Upheld zoning
II. Found that zoning is a valid use of police power
Saul David Alinsky
was a community organizer and activist. He founded the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago. He was also an influential writer. His books Reveille for Radicals(1946) and Rules for Radicals (1972) were, and remain, important statements of community organizing.
John Friedmann is associated with
Transactive
How many acres are in one hectare?
2.47
Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon dealt with which of the following issues?
Taking
Ratio of median housing price to median income
The ratio of median housing price to median income shows how affordable or unaffordable a community may be. A ratio of greater than 2.5 would indicate that the housing may be unaffordable.
A concurrency requirement means that
development cannot occur until capital improvements are in place.
A heat map (or kernel density map) shows
areas of elevated concentrations.
rational planning
Using a scientific process to plan
incremental planning
Viewing planning as a series of incremental steps
transactive planning.
Working one on one with citizens to develop a plan
Golden v. Planning Board of the Town of Ramapo dealt with
Made development conditional based on the provision of services
