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AICP Flash Cards

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show Professor of MIT, Author of Images of a City. This book defines basic concepts within the city, such as edges and nodes  
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Ebenezer Howard   show
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show Authored "The death and life of American Cities" The book provided a critical look at planners and planning, with a special focus on the mistakes of urban renewal.  
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Rachel Carson   show
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Fredrick Law Olmstead Sr.   show
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Ian McHarg   show
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show 1st President of the American City Planning Institute. Played an important role in shaping the standard city enabling Act of 1928/  
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show Lawyer who drafted the bill to enable the first planning commission in Ohio in 1915. Lawyer who represented the government interest in the case Euclid vs. Ambler in 1926.1st president of the American society of Planning officials (ASPO) in 1934.  
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Clarence Perry   show
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What is the definition of a Comprehensive Plan?   show
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show Demographics, Land Use, Transportation, Community facility and infrastruction  
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What is the Mean, Median and Mode   show
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show Authored Rules for Radicals, known for his advocacy planning.  
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show Known for his advocacy planning in Ohio  
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What is Rational Planning   show
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What is Incremental Planning   show
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What is Transactive Planning   show
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What is Advocacy Planning   show
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show Takes power away fromthe people and gives planning back to the people. Allows neighbors to be responsible for planning in their own communities.  
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show Focuses on identifying stakeholders and building a concensus on how to sole a problem. Concensus building is major focus.  
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What is Ladder of Participation   show
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What is the 1st Amendment   show
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What is the 5th Amendment   show
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show Deals with Due process, substantive due process, procedural due process, and equal protection  
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What is the difference between a Dillion's Rule state and a Home Rule State   show
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What is Range   show
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show This measurement of Central Tendency is classified into mutually exclusive groups that lack intrinsic order. Race, social security number, and sex are examples of this data tool.  
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show has values that are ordered so that inferences can be made regarding magnitude but which have no fixed interval between values. Educational attainment or a letter grade on a test would be examples. Other example: AICP exam  
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show is data that has an ordered relationship with a magnitude. Temperature is an example. 30 degrees is not twice as cold as 60 degrees.  
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What is ratio measurement of central tendancy   show
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Who is Walter Moody   show
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Was the first state to pass enabling legislation   show
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show Los Angeles  
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Who is Harland Bartholomew   show
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Who is Edward Bassett   show
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What is the City of Cincinnati?   show
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show This state was the first state to introduce statewide zoning in 1961.  
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Who is Jacob Riis?   show
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show Authored Cities in Evolution published in 1915. This book centers on regional planning  
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show Authored The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, published in 1980. This book promotes the use of environmental psychology and sociology in urban design.  
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Who is Daniel Burnham?   show
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show President Teddy Roosevelt.  
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show This provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest  
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show This act provided 160 acres of land to settlers for a fee of $18 and a guarantee of five years of residence. The result was the settlement of 270 million acres, or 10 percent of the land area of the United States.  
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show This Act provided the President of the United States with the power to create forest preserves by proclamation.  
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show This act allowed the Secretary of the Interior to manage forest preserves.  
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show This act allowed the funds raised from the sale of public land in arid states to be used to construct water storage and irrigation systems.  
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show This act was the first to provide federal protection for archaeological sites. The Act allowed for the designation of National Monuments.  
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show This administration was formed to carry out experiments in population resettlement and land reform. The result was the development of Greenbelt towns.  
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What is the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944?   show
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What is the U.S. Housing Act of 1954? What problems did it create?   show
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show This planning theory believes that cities grow in a series of outward rings. Land use is based on the distance from the downtown. There are five rings to his theory.  
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What is Sector Planning Theory?   show
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What is Multi-Nuceli Planning Theory?   show
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show This theory explains the size and spacing of cities. The theory states that there is a minimum market threshold to bring a firm to a city and there is a maximum range people are willing to travel to receive goods and services.  
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show 1st American Suburb, connected by Railroad cars, contained the first curviliner streets; designed by Fredrick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux  
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show Greenhill, OhioGreendale, WisconsinGreenbelt, Maryland  
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show Walkability, mix use, transportation and uran design.  
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Name 4 cities that embody the new urbanism elements   show
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Jacob Riis is the author of which of the books?   show
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show 1909  
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Which theory posits that land values are highest along major roadways?   show
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What did the USSC decide in Gettysburg Elec. Railway vs. the US?   show
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New Oreleans, 1921 this occurred   show
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show The Historic Sites, Buildings and Antiquities Act. Provided for the Secretary of the Interior to identify and restore qualified historic sites and properties.  
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show National Historic Preservation Act- est. national register of historic places and provides for protection of preservation worthy sites. Directs each state to appoint a historical preservation officer (SHPO)  
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What theory did Harris and Ullman posit?   show
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show Sector Theory: Transportation routes resulted in cities growth radiating from those areas.  
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What theory did Burgess posit?   show
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What theory did Christiller posit   show
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