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Urban Dev Theories

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Concentric Ring Theory   show
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show Homer Hoyt. 1939. The Sector Theory holds that urban growth occurs along communication and transportation routes known as sectors.  
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Multiple Nuclei Theory   show
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show William Alonso. 1960. The Bid Rent Theory holds that, as urban development extends farther from the central business district, there is a proportional decrease in the cost of land, employment opportunity, population density, and development intensity.  
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City as Growth Machine Theory   show
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Monumental Design   show
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New Towns   show
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City Beautiful Movement   show
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"Garden City" development model   show
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"Garden Suburb"   show
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Greenbelt Towns   show
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show Rationalism is the foundation and embodiment of the scientific method. Contains: 1) goals and objectives are set, 2) policy alternatives are identified, 3) policy alternatives are evaluated, 4) selected policy alt is implemented  
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Incrementalism   show
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Transactive Planning   show
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show Planners become like lawyers: they advocate and defend the interests of a particular client or group (usually economically disadvantaged and/or politically unorganized or underrepresented). Paul Davidoff. Saul Alinsky = "organizations" who feel powerless  
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show Radicalism take transactivism to the extreme. Radicalism hates hierarchical bureaucracies, centralized planning, and domineering professional planners. Planning is most effective when it's performed by non-professional neighborhood planning committees  
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Utopianism   show
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show Addresses situations in which the planning techniques that should be used are known, but the ends that should be achieved by these techniques are not. Such a situation would be making a population projection just to have it handy when it is needed.  
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Dissecting Techniques   show
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Arnstein's "Ladder of Participation"   show
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show 1933. Walter Christaller. Size and spacing of cities. There is a minimum market threshold to bring a firm to a city, and a max range people are willing to travel to receive goods and services.  
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