Misc

Question 1

PERT

Answer 1

Project management technique for determining how much time a project needs before completion. Each activity assigned a best, worst, most probable completion time estimate.

Question 2

Cluster zoning

Answer 2

Density of the subdivision is determined early on and a large piece of the land is set aside to create common green space for residents to enjoy

Question 3

Skills of good leaders vs good managers

Answer 3

Leaders: political acumen, willingness to take appropriate risks, advocacy

Managers: attention to detail, deference to an existing power structure, willingness to get a clean resolution at the expense of the right resolution

Question 4

Sector Theory

Answer 4

Stresses the role of transportation in urban development. City develops in sectors along the lines of communication from the CBD outward. High quality areas locate along roads, indust sectors along canals/railways away from high quality housing, working-class housing near industry

Question 5

HUD Consolidated Plan

Answer 5

Designed to help communities assess their affordable housing and community development needs and the market to make data informed, place based decisions

Question 6

Inequity

Answer 6

Measureable. Two key attributes that often work together: disproportionality and institutionalized inequity

Question 7

Peter Drucker

Answer 7

Created the Management by Objectives (MBO) technique

Question 8

LULU

Answer 8

Locally Undesired Land Use (like a hazardous waste dump)

Question 9

Median

Answer 9

Appropriate for ranks, interval, and ratio data (not for categories, like nominal data)

Question 10

Multiplier Analysis

Answer 10

Used to project the number of jobs created or lost. If an industry has a multiplier of 1.5 then 100 gained/lost jobs would result in 50 gained/lost in the rest of the economy (would move in the same direction at the rate of the multiplier)

Question 11

Indian Reorganization Act

Answer 11

Aka the Wheeler-Howard Act (1934). Enacted to decrease federal control and increase self-government and responsibility of indigenous people.

Question 12

National Heritage Areas

Answer 12

Legislatively authorized bc demonstrate nationally unique natural, cultural, historic or scenic resource and link natural and cultural resources. Est through an act of Congress with NPS assistance. Managed at local or regional level.

Question 13

Planned Unit Development

Answer 13

Housing development not subject to standard zoning requirements for the area. Includes negotiated zoning requirements, flexibility in development, and varying densities.

Question 14

Alan Ehrenhalt

Answer 14

Wrote about the “Great Inversion” (2012) where poorer diverse suburbs surround wealthier central cities (opposite of the conventional American narrative)

Question 15

Inferential statistics

Answer 15

Use probability theory to determine characteristics abt a population based on observations for a sample of the population. These statistics reject the null hypothesis, they don’t prove it.

Question 16

Right to Farm laws

Answer 16

Included in all 50 states. Attempt to preserve ag practices and make farming more viable.

Question 17

Dillon’s Rule

Answer 17

Local government authority is derived from state government

Question 18

t-test

Answer 18

Difference in means btw two subgroups.

Question 19

Tax Increment Financing

Answer 19

Method of financing to provide front end funds to assist in large scale redevelopment

Question 20

Urban Cluster vs Urban Areas

Answer 20

Both form urban cores of metro/micropolitan statistical areas. Metropolitan SA contain at least one UA of 50K or more, Micropolitan SA will contain at least one UC of btw 10-50K people.