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Historical events, planners, books, definitions

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City to pass the first land use zoning restrictions in 1867   show
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City to create the first local civic center plan in the US in 1903   show
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City to first apply the City Beautiful principles in 1906   show
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First town planning board created in 1907 in this city   show
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First metropolitan regional plan in 1909 for this city   show
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First state to pass enabling legislation for zoning in 1909   show
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First city to use land use zoning to guide development in 1909   show
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show Harland Bartholomew, in Newark, NJ  
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show New York City, by Edward Bassett  
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First regional planning commission created in this county in 1922   show
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Standard State Zoning Enabling Act issued in this year   show
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City to adopt the first comprehensive plan in 1925   show
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Standard City Planning Enabling Act issued in this year   show
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First US National Planning Board created in this year   show
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show Cleveland  
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First state to introduce statewide zoning in 1961   show
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Year the first indoor shopping mall was opened in Edina, MN   show
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show Funds for urban renewal  
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The Council of Governments (COGS) movement began with a council being formed in which city in 1954?   show
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show 1949  
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National rate of home ownership is how many percent in 2010?   show
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show James Rouse  
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show Federal Property Administration Act of 1949  
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show Jacob Riis  
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show Ebenezer Howard  
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show Walter Moody  
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show Flavel Shurtleff  
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show Patrick Geddess  
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show Nelson Lewis  
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show Ladislas Segoe  
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show F. Stuart Chapin  
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Author of Image of the City (1960) that defined edges, nodes, etc. within the city   show
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Author of The Rise of the Creative Class (2003) on the importance of the creative class in urban areas   show
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show TJ Kent  
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Author of With Heritage So Rich (1966) on historic preservation   show
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show Ian McHarg  
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Author of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980) which promoted the use of enviro. psychology and sociology in urban design   show
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This type of survey is taken at one point in time   show
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This type of survey is taken over a length of time to measure changes in attitudes   show
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Typical low response rate to written surveys is how many %?   show
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show 1:24,000, where 1" = 2,000 linear feet  
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How many sq. ft. are there per acre?   show
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show 1-3%  
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Slope of land where major problems occur for commercial and large-scale residential.   show
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show 5-10%  
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What is a statistical 'variance'?   show
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show Square root of the variance.  
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What is the 'coefficient of variation'?   show
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show Standard deviation of a sample. A larger sample size means a smaller standard error.  
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show The width shows us how certain or uncertain we are about the unknown. An estimated range of values which is likely to include an unknown population parameter. Wide interval = we are not very certain.  
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This social justice pioneer wrote Rules for Radicals to show how the 'have nots' should organize to outmaneuver the 'haves'. Worked in Chicago in the 1930s and 40s.   show
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This pioneer of social justice developed a Ladder of Citizen Participation where citizens should act to develop their own agendas instead of just reacting to outside forces.   show
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This pioneer of social justice criticized physical planning since it ignored minorities. He wanted planners to be advocates.   show
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This pioneer of social justice worked in Cleveland in the 1970s to expand choices for those who had none or few and redirect resources to the poor.   show
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show David Harvey  
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Developer of 'bounded rationality' since the human mind limits pure rational planning. "Satisfice" or choose what's good enough.   show
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show Charles Lindblom  
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show Amitai Etzioni  
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show John Friedmann  
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Author of the radical planning book called Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action (1987) guiding people to develop their own plans.   show
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show Communicative planning  
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show 640 acres (section is 1 square mile)  
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Which Act created the highway system that links state capitals and most large cities and allocated funds from automobile sales for road construction   show
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show Downzoning  
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show A census designated place that includes a central city plus adjacent communities to which it is linked economically.  
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show Mariemont, OH by John Nolen  
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What financial analysis tool looks at basic and non-basic economic activities? Basic activities are those that can be exported, such as automotive manufacturing.   show
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What is a Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area?   show
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show Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century  
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show The area that will be inundated by the flood event having a 1-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. The 1-percent annual chance flood is also referred to as the base flood or 100-year flood.  
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show Urban cluster  
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show Clarence Stein  
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When is the PERT tool most useful?   show
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show Affected environment, Alternatives.... ??  
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show Zero based budgeting  
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What roads provide a moderate amount of land access, distribute travel to smaller areas, and interconnect major roads?   show
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show Volume-to-capacity ratio (V/C Ratio) A V/C Ratio of greater than 1.0 indicates severe congestion.  
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show Institute of Transportation Engineers' Trip Generation manual  
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What type of housing generates 6.6 trips per day?   show
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What type of housing generates 9.55 trips per day?   show
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show A townhouse.  
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This planner created the NY Housing Authority and wrote The City is the Frontier (criticizing federal policies on housing)   show
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show Thomas Adams  
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This planner helped to transform NYC's public works in the 1930s through 1950s.   show
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This planner worked in the Resettlement Administration, Greenbelt Cities program, and as Governor of Puerto Rico.   show
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show Sir Raymond Unwin  
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show Catherine Bauer Wurster  
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show Clarence Perry  
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show Freserick Law Olmstead, Sr.  
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Who was the architect responsible for designing an experimental utopian city in Arizona focused on minimizing the impact of development on nature?   show
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A Garden City has how many people and how many acres?   show
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show 1922, in Sunnyside Gardens NY  
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This planner developed the Concentric Circle theory.   show
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This planner developed Sector theory, where land values increase along roads.   show
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show Harris Ullman  
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show Christaller  
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show Jean Gottman  
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show Jules Dupuit  
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This method developed in the 1950s by the US Navy is useful when timelines aren't known; it illustrates relationships.   show
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This method shows the path through tasks that don't overlap.   show
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show General office space  
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This type of real estate (1,000 sq. ft.) brings about 43 daily trip ends.   show
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This type of real estate (1,000 sq. ft.) brings about 7 daily trip ends.   show
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show Robert Park and E.W. Burgess  
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show Lawrence Veiller  
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show Robert Lang  
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show Logan and Molotch  
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show Natural, rural, suburban, general urban, urban center, urban core.  
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show James Kunstler  
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Who introduced Management by Objectives (MBO) in 1954?   show
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show Natural surveillance, territoriality, natural access control  
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