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What is the "White City"? Who designed it? When?

The World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair). Daniel Burnham was a principal designer. The Exposition was held in 1893 (400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World).

What is the planning significance of Central Park? Who was it designer & builder?
It was created in the mid 1800s as an a way to address the lack of green space in cities. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Built by Calvert Vaux.
What is the "Cumberland Road"? When was its built?
The "National Road" built by the Federal gov't to tie the east and west together in 1811. Ran from Cumberland, MD to Vandalia, IL
What were the 3 major ports of immigration in 1811.
Chicago, NY, Philadelphia
What are the most significant laws of the Public Health Movement?
NYC Tenement Law of 1867 and a San Francisco ordinance that ended slaughter houses in 1867.
Why did the Public Health Movement die out?
The Public Health Movement died out in the 1920s as local governments were given authority to regulate issues.
Explain what the S - T - R system is and how it was used.
S - T - R : Section, Town, Range government classification system established by the "Ordinance of 1785" to promote land speculation and development in the west.
What was the intent of the "Land Ordinance of 1785"? What is its planning significance?
The rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest was created to provide a systematic way to divide and distribute land to people. It is called the "largest single act of national planning in our history."
What did the Louisiana Purchase do? What year?
Secured 828,000 sq miles of land from Mississippi to the Rocky Mts from France. It led to the western expansion.
What is the importance of the Erie Canal? What year was it opened?
Opened a western shipping channel from NYC to the Great Lakes. Opened in 1825.
What year was the 1st tenement housing built in Manhattan?
1855
What was the "Homestead Act of 1862"
Federal legislation that promoted western development by providing any family a 1/4 of twnshp (160 acres). It was given to them if they lived there for 5 years and built a house, or it could be purchase it for $1.25 per acre after only 6 months.

What was the "Morrill Act"? Year?

Federal legislation of 1862 that authorized land grants to the states so that they could use the proceeds to establish colleges in agriculture, engineering, and other "practical arts".

What was the 1st group to push for higher sanitary and housing standards in NYC? Year?
New York Council Hygiene of the Citizen's Association in 1864

Explain what the Transcontinental Railroad was? Year?

The connection of the western and eastern railroad lines (Union Pacific and Central Pacific) at Promontory Point, UT. May 10, 1869

What instigated the first tenement legislation in NYC? Year? How many tenement houses existed at that time?

A 1867 report by the NY Council of Hygiene of the Citizen's Association. 15,000 tenements. Not effective due to lack of enforcement.
What are the major points addressed by the NYC tenement law of 1867?
Required that all tenements have: 1) window or ventilation in every sleeping room, 2) a fire escape, 3) and "good and sufficient" water closets or privies, 4) be graded, drained, and connected to sewer
When was the 1st "Dumbbell" tenement built? What was it?
Built in 1879 it is was a multifamily style of housing that was shaped like a dumbell

What was the Public Health Movement?

Advocated worker safety and public health as a result of poor factory conditions. Also addressed slum living conditions marked by open sewage in the streets & disease.
When was the 1st US Geological Survey Completed?
1879
What prompted the founding of the Sierra Club? Year? By whom?
The need to promote, protect, and preserve the natural environment, 1892 by John Muir.
What was the General Land Law Revision Act? Year?
Gave the US President power to create forest preserves by proclamation in 1891

Explain the significance of the Garden City Movement. Name the 1st 2 cities.

Ebenezer Howard's city design which extolled the virtue of nature over cities and sought a return to pre-industrial small villages. Letchworth & Welwyn.

What book is created with starting the Garden City Movement? Year?

Ebenezer Howard's "To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform," published in 1898.

What event propelled the City Beautiful Movement? Year?

The design of the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), nicknamed the "White City", in 1893.
What was the first zoning ordinance? When?

San Francisco passed the land use zoning ordinance on the location of obnoxious uses in 1867. A question like this could also refer to the 1916 Zoning Ordinance in NYC.

When was the first census conducted? Who did it?

1790 - 1792, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson

What book is created with starting housing reforms?

Jacob Riis's "How the Other Half Lives" publish in 1890 about NYC slums.
What was the "Forest Management Act"? Year?
Federal legislation which allowed the Secretary of the Interior to manage forest preserves. 1891.
NAFTA
Established a trade bloc (free trade agreement) implemented January 1, 1994, between Canada, the United States and Mexico

Trade Bloc

A large free trade area formed by one or more tax, tariff and trade agreements. Typically trade pacts that define such a bloc specify formal adjudication bodies, e.g. NAFTA trade panels. This may include even a more democratic and particip
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
Administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides grants to States, and States to eligible applicants, to implement long-term hazard mitigation measures after a major disaster.
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Purpose
Reduce the loss of life and property due to natural disasters and to enable mitigation measures to be implemented during the immediate recovery from a disaster.
e-Government

Refers to government use of information and communication technology (ICT) to exchange information and services with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government. Includes internet, telephone, fax, PDA, SMS text messaging, MMS, and 3G, GPRS, WiFi, WiMAX, Bluetooth, etc..

Urban Growth Boundary (UGB)
A regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urbanization by designating the area inside the boundary for higher density urban development and the area outside the boundary for lower density rural development.
Green Belt
A policy or land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas.
Transfer of Development Rights (TDR)
A method for protecting land by transferring the "rights to develop" from one area and giving them to another.
Purchase of Development Rights (PDR)
A method for protecting land, where a landowner voluntarily sells his development rights to a governmental agency or a land trust. The land owner is paid the difference between the current value of the land and the land¬タルs potential development value.
Dillon's Rule
Municipal governments only have the powers that are expressly granted to them by the state legislature, those that are necessarily implied from that grant of power, and those that are essential and indispensable to the municipality's existence
Vested Right
Refers to when a developer/property owner has the right to develop a property - if they have a building permit, have relied on a public official, have made a substaintial investment etc.
Zoning Text Amendment
Changes the rules regarding the use and development of every property in a specified zoning district
Zoning map amendment

Change the zoning of a property from one classification to another.

Variance

An administrative exception to land use regulations, generally in order to compensate for a deficiency in a real property which would prevent the property from complying with the zoning regulation.

Replat

Any change in any street layout, other public improvement- lot line- amount of land reserved for public use or the common use of lot owners- & easements shown on the approved plat.

Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
Affirmed the use of eminent domain for economic development
Lingle v. Chevron (2005)

Jettisoned the "substantially advances" test for takings

Highest population density according to the 2000
New York has a population density of 10,292 people per kilometer. San Francisco has a density of 6,423 per kilometer.
Americans with Disabilities Act
1990
Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA)
Was adopted in 1972 to provides funding for coastal state programs designed to coordinate and regulate specific activities within defined coastal zones
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969

Required both the private and public sectors to conform to certain environmental standards. Provides that any major federal action or policy that has significant impact on environ will require Environmental Impact Analysis (EIS)

Christopher Stone's book Should Trees Have Standing

The Sierra Club v. Morton, Secretary of the Interior (1972) case where the Sierra Club attempted to block the development of a ski resort in the Mineral King Valley in the Sequoia National Forest.

Indian Reorganization Act (1934)

Allowed Native Americans to adopt a constitution and organize for their common welfare

City Beautiful Movement

Includes civic design as a primary principle. Cities such as DC and Chicago had large parks, statues, and well-designed public meetings.

Fred French Investing Co. v. City of New York

Found that Transfer of Development Rights is an inappropriate method to compensate the landowner for a taking by the City of New York.

Fiscal impact analysis
Best used for a single development project to determine the revenues and expenses of the project.
New Urbanism

Peter Calthorpe. Andres Duany. Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Jeff Speck. Many others.

Advocacy Planning in Cleveland
Krumholz
Smart growth
Promotes a variety of housing choices to allow people of all income and household types to have a place to live.
Section 8

This housing program provides funds to pay a portion of the rent for low-income households. The amount paid depends on the household income

Concentric Circle Theory

Ernest Burgess (1925). Cities grow in a series of outward rings. Centered by a business district surrounded by a transition zone filled with low-income, high-crime area, then a working-class residential zone, then a middle-class residential zone, and fina

Neotraditional Development
Calls for nodes of activity that provide Mixed Use, Multimodal Use and Contains Public Spaces
BART
1972, San Francisco
Plat

Consists of a map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.

First shopping center
Northgate Shopping Center, Seatle Washington, 1950
First modern, enclosed regional shopping mall
Town and Country Shopping Center, 1954
Edge City
Relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area, in what had recently been a residential suburb or semi-rural community, coined by Joel Garreau (1991)
Daylighting

The practice of placing windows, or other transparent media, and reflective surfaces so that, during the day, natural light provides effective internal illumination. Daylighting a stream means taking an urban underground stream and restoring its above-ground channel.

Transect

A term used by New Urbanist town planners to refer to the transition of land use from an urban core to a rural edge.

Workforce Housing

Can refer to almost any housing, but always refers to affordable housing - Defined by four principal factors: Affordability, Home ownership, Critical workforce & proximity to employment centers

What type of land accounts for about 2/3 of the privately held lands in the US?
Agricultural
Empowerment Zone

An economically depresed area designated for governmental subsidies and tax incentives.

43,560
Square feet in an acre.
Advocacy Planner

Serves a variety of groups with different goals and interests. Paul Davidoff. Saul Alinsky.

Cincinnati

First city to adopt a comprehensive plan

Primary purpose of a fiscal impact analysis

To assist city or county officials determine if a project will generate sufficient revenue to defray necessary public service costs

Important elements of a Historic Preservation Program

Educational materials for historic building owners, design guidelines for historic building renovations and Tax incentives to encourage renovation

LULU
Locally Undesirable Land Uses such as waste dump
Megalopolis
An area with multiple-cities with a combined population of more than 10 million inhabitants
Which city was home to the first Council of Government?
Chicago
Which of the following cities experienced the greatest population decrease between 1990 and 2000?
Detroit
Metropolitan Planning Organizations
Responsible for reviewing and coordinating programs affecting the region, certifying that a project to be federally funded will be consistent with regional plans or regional development goals and working w/ municipalities to coordinate roadway plans
The Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook
Created by the APA to encourage states to revise their standard state zoning enabling acts?
President Clinton did which of the following in 2000?
Created eight new national monuments.
President George H. Bush did which of the following in 1994?

Signed NAFTA legislation

Vieux Carre Commission
Was the first Historic Preservation Commission for the French Quarter in New Orleans, formed in the 1930's.
Lowering a thermostat by 1 degree Fahrenheit can reduce a heating bill by
3%
The amount of goods and serviced produced in the United States during a year
Gross Domestic Product
How many federally recognized Native American tribes are there in the United States?
562
Non-IRA tribes
Did not organize under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
How much solid waste does the typical household create?
Approximately 4.5 lbs. per person, per day.
Regression
The analysis between two or more variables (x) and (y).
Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program

Established 1977 to help distressed communities develop economically. facilitates public-private partnerships,attempts to encourage redevelopment in urban areas and encouraged intergovernmental cooperation for redevelopment projects

Hoover Dam is located on the border of which states?
Arizona & Nevada
Which city had the first metropolitan plan in the United States?

Chicago. 1909 Plan of Chicago.

When was the first National Conference on City Planning?

1909. In Washington DC.

How is the official unemployment rate calculated?
Individuals unemployed divided by individuals 16 years of age and older in the labor force

Limnology

The study of (natural and manmade) lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, wetlands and groundwaters.

Census Tract

A small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county with a population of 1,500 to 8,000 persons.

First zoning ordinance.

New York City, 1916
The Morrill Act (1862)

Congress gave public land to each state to be sold for the establishment of engineering, agriculture, and military science colleges. "Land grant universities."

Zero Lot Line
A form of development where the the building is sited on one or more lot lines with no yard, the intent of which is to allow a more flexible site design and to increase the amount of usable open space.

What year did the Panama Canal open?

1914

The first Council of Government was created in what year?

1954. In Chicago.

Storm sewers are typically designed to handle up to what year flood?

25

Downzoning

Reducing the intensity of zoning on a site.

Explain the "Per Se" test for takings

That there is a loss of all economically viable use of the land

What was the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act?

1924, revised in 1926. Legislation that established the right for comprehensive planning.

What act was a model for early zoning & enabling legislation

Standard State Zoning Enabling Act of 1924. Act revised in 1926.

What gives governments the right to establish land use laws

Police Powers to protect the heath, safety, and welfare of the community

What is a "Physical Invasion" takings?

An act of government whereby possession of the land is taken, and/or, a facility is placed on property. An easement.

Explain the "Essential Nexus" test.

A takings legal test that considers if there is an evident linkage between the effect of the regulations & the governments stated interest or intent. Legislative Intent = Legitimate Government Authority. The Court held that in evaluating such claims, it must be determined whether an "essential nexus" exists between a legitimate state interest and the permit condition. Used in reference to exactions.

Explain the "Rough Proportionality" test

Used in reference to exactions. A takings test that considers if the results of a legislation/ action is directly related both in nature & extent to the impact of the law. Government Actions = Outcomes.

What is the legal purpose of zoning?

To protect the public's health, safety, and welfare while minimizing conflicts between compatible uses.

Explain the "Rational Basis" test

That the government action is based in a reasonable government interest. Action = Legitimate exercise of Police Power. A low level of scrutiny when determining constitutionality.

Explain the "Fairly Debatable" test

That a reviewer if given the same conditions and measures, would come to a similar conclusion as the one in question.

Zoning Text Amendment

Changes the rules regarding the use and development of a given use, or in a given zone.

First Amendment

The first amendment covers freedom of speech, which includes the regulation of signage

Enterprise fund

An enterprise fund establishes a separate accounting and financial reporting mechanism for municipal services for which a fee is charged in exchange for goods or services. Under enterprise accounting, the revenues in expenditures of services are separated into separate funds with its own financial statements, rather than commingled with the revenues and expenses of all other government activities.

City Beautiful Movement

Includes civic design as a primary principle. Cities such as DC and Chicago had large parks, statues, and well-designed public meetings.

Fred French Investing Co. v. City of New York

Found that Transfer of Development Rights is an inappropriate method to compensate the landowner for a taking by the City of New York.

Fiscal impact analysis
Best used for a single development project to determine the revenues and expenses of the project.

When and where was the first City Planning Conference?

1909 - Washington DC

What book was the first known formal instruction in city planning below the college level? When was it published and who was the author?
1912 - Wackers Manual of the Plan of Chicago - Walter Moody

Carrying Out the City Plan - Who wrote it, why is it important, and when was it written

In 1914, Flavel Shurtleff wrote Carrying Out the City Plan, the first major textbook on city planning.
AIP - what does it stand for, when was it founded, and who was the first president?
In 1917, the American Institute of Planners (AIP) was founded, with Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. as the first president. The AIP was the forerunner of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)*.
When was the first issue of City Planning published
In 1925, the American City Planning Institute and the National Conference on City Planning published the first issue of City Planning, the predecessor to the current Journal of the American Planning Association.
When was ASPO founded and what does it stand for?
In 1934, the American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) was founded.

When was the first code of ethics for professional planners adopted?

In 1971, AIP adopted a Code of Ethics for professional planners.
When was the first exam for AIP membership administered?
In 1977, the first exam for AIP membership was administered.
When was the APA created and what two organizations joined to form it?
In 1978, the American Planning Association was created through a merger of AIP and ASPO.

Who published the first isue of the Journal of Planning Education. When was it published?

In 1981, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning published the first issue of The Journal of Planning Education and Research.

What city passed the first land use zoning restriction on the location of obnxoxius uses? What year was it passed?

In 1867, San Francisco passed the first land use zoning restriction on the location of obnoxious uses.

Which City created the first local civic center plan. What year was it created and what 3 individuals worked on the plan's development?

In 1903, Cleveland created the first local civic center plan in the U.S. Daniel Burnham, John Carrere, and Arnold Brunner were responsible for the plan's development.

What city was the first to apply the City Beautiful principles? What year was the plan finished and who wrote it?

In 1906, San Francisco was the first major American city to apply the City Beautiful principles, using a plan developed by Daniel Burnham. [I don't think this is true. Burnham's plan was barely implemented because the 1906 earthquake made recovery a priority and tapped municipal budgets.]

When and where was the first town planning board created?
In 1907, the first town planning board was created in Hartford, Connecticut.

Who created the first metropolitan regional plan? What City was it completed for and what year was it completed?

In 1909, Daniel Burnham created the first metropolitan regional plan for Chicago.

Which state was the first to pass enabling legislation and which City was the first to use land use zoning to guide development? What year?

1909 - Wisconsin was the first state to pass enabling legislation and Los Angeles was the first city to use land use zoning to guide development.

When and where was the first full-time employee hired for a City Planning Commission? What was the commissioners name?

In 1914, Newark, New Jersey hired the first full-time employee for a city planning commission, Harland Bartholomew. Bartholomew went on to become one of the most famous planning consultants.

What City adopted the first comprehensive zoning code? Who wrote it and when was it adopted?

In 1916, New York City adopted the first comprehensive zoning code, written by Edward Bassett.

What county formed the first regional planning commission? When?

In 1922, Los Angeles County formed the first regional planning commission.

When were the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act and the Standard City Planning Enabling Act issued? Who issued it and when?

In 1924, Secretary Herbert Hoover, of the U.S. Department of Commerce, issued the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act.

What was the first major US city to adopt a comp plan? Who produced it and when?

In 1925, The City of Cincinnati was the first major U.S. city to adopt a comprehensive plan, produced by Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe.

When was the first National Planning Board created? When was it abolished?

In 1933, the first U.S. National Planning Board was created. It was later renamed the National Resources Planning Board and then abolished in 1943.
Where and when was the first federally supported public housing built? Where was the first housing occupied?
In 1934, the first federally supported public housing was constructed in Cleveland, although the first to be occupied was located in Atlanta.
What was the first state to introduce statewide zoning? When was it introduced, and when was it amended?
In 1961, Hawaii was the first state to introduce statewide zoning, which was later amended in 1978.

Which US department released the first Standard City Planning Enabling Act? When, and who was the Secretary in charge?

In 1928, the U.S. Department of Commerce, under Secretary Herbert Hoover, released the Standard City Planning Enabling Act.
Who wrote How the other Half lives? When was it published and what did it influence?
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, published in 1890. This book resulted in housing reform in New York City.
What book initiated the Garden City movement? Who wrote it and when was it published?
Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform by Ebenezer Howard, published in 1898. This book initiated the Garden City movement.

What book was adopted as a textbook for eigth graders in Chicago?

Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago by Walter Moody, published in 1912. This book was adopted as a textbook for eighth graders in Chicago.
Who wrote Cities in Evolution? when was it written and what is the book about?
Cities in Evolution by Patrick Geddess, published in 1915. This book centers on regional planning
Who wrote Planning of the Modern City? when?
Planning of the Modern City by Nelson Lewis, published in 1916.
What book did Ladislas Segoe write? When was it published and why is it relevant?
Local Planning Administration by Ladislas Segoe, published in 1941. This book was the first in the Green Book Series produced by the International City/County Management Association.
Who wrote Urban Land Use Planning? when?
Urban Land Use Planning by F. Stuart Chapin, published in 1957. This book became a common textbook on land use planning.
What book did Kevin Lynch write? what concepts did it introduce/design?
Image of the City by Kevin Lynch, published in 1960. This book defines basic concepts within the city, such as edges and nodes.
Jane Jacobs - book name, date, focus of book?

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, published in 1961. Jacobs provided a critical look at planners and planning, with a special focus on the mistakes of urban renewal.

Who wrote silent Spring and what is it about?
Silent Spring by Rachel Carlson, published in 1962. This book focuses on the negative effects of pesticides on the environment.

What book did TJ Kent write? when?

The Urban General Plan by TJ Kent, published in 1964.

What book did Alfred Reins write? when? whis is it improtant?

With Heritage So Rich edited by Alfred Reins, published in 1966. This is a seminal book in historic preservation.

Who wrote Design with Nature? when? what is it about?

Design with Nature by Ian McHarg, published in 1969. This book focuses on conservation design.
What book did Wiliam Whyte write? when? what does the book promote?
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by Wiliam Whyte, published in 1980. This book promotes the use of environmental psychology and sociology in urban design.

Thomas Adams

Was an important planner during the Garden City movement. secretary of the Garden City Association and became the first manager of Letchworth. He developed a number of garden suburbs in England and later went on to teach planning at MIT and Harvard.

Saul Alinsky

Advocate of community organizing. Organized Chicago's poor - late 1930s and 1940s. 1946 published Reveille for Radicals encouraged poor to become involved in American democracy. published Rules for Radicals, which 13 rules for community organizing.

Sherry Arnstein

wrote "A Ladder of Citizen Participation" for the Journal of the American Planning Association in 1969. This article describes the levels of involvement by citizens depending on the form of participation utilized.

Rachel Carson
wrote Silent Spring, an important book in environmental planning.
Rexford Tugwell
Resettlement Administration head.worked on greenbelt cities program,construction of new self-sufficient cities.closely involved in the development of Arthurdale,WV Resettlement Administration community.NY City Planning Commissioner governor of Puerto Rico
Sir Raymond Unwin
was an English town planner and designer of Letchworth. He later lectured at the University of Birmingham in England and Columbia University.
Catherine Bauer Wurster
founder of American housing policy. worked to reform policy related to housing and city planning.served as executive secretary of the Regional Planning Association of America.wrote Modern Housing. Influential in the passage of the Housing Act of 1937.
The McMillan Plan
1901 - City Beautiful design is the McMillan Plan of 1901 for Washington D.C.
The Land Ordinance of 1785
provided for rectangular land survey of Old Northwest.completed following the end of the Revolutionary War.provided systematic way to divide and distribute land to the public.established sections and townships.goal to raise money through the sale of land
Homestead Act

1862-Lincoln-provided 160 acres land to settlers for $18 and guaranteed five years of residence.resulted in settlement of 270 million acres,10 percent of the land area of the USA.Mass farming led to creation of the dust bowl.Ended in 1976(1986 Alaska)

General Land Law Revision Act

1891 was passed by Congress. This Act provided the President of the United States with the power to create forest preserves by proclamation.one of the earliest preservation efforts. Yellowstone Park was granted as part of this act

Forest Management Act,

1897 allowed the Secretary of the Interior to manage forest preserves. the regulated harvesting of timber, mining of mineral resources, and use of water on forest reservations may be permitted by the Secretary of the Interior.

US Reclamation Act

1902- allowed the funds raised from the sale of public land in arid states to be used to construct water storage and irrigation systems.led to the eventual damming of nearly every major western river.

Public Lands Commission

In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed the commission to propose rules for land development and management.

Antiquities Act

1906-first law to provide federal protection for archaeological sites.allowed for the designation of National Monuments.created to protect prehistoric Indian ruins and artifacts.president can designate national monuments without congress approval.

The Resettlement Administration

formed in 1935 to carry out experiments in population resettlement and land reform. The result was the development of Greenbelt towns. folded in January of 1937. brainchild of Rexford G. Tugwell in Franklin Roosevelt's administration. This agency was responsible for the New Towns program which developed 0three cities based on Howard's (garden city) ideas: Greendale, Wisconsin- Greenhills, Ohio- and Greenbelt, Maryland. Additionally, 99 other new towns were planned.

Serviceman's Readjustment Act

1944 commonly known as the GI Bill, guaranteed home loans to veterans. The result was the rapid development of suburbs.

New Towns Act
1946- UK led to the development of dozen communities based on Howard's ideas
Park Forest IL
following WWI - New town
Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe
Developed the Cincinnati Plan 1925. First comp plan ever
The Regional Plan for New York and Environs
Between 1922 and 1929, the Regional Plan for New York and Environs was created. The plan focused on suburban development, highway construction, and suburban recreational facilities. Stein and Mumford were involved in the creation of the plan.
U.S. Housing Act of 1954
required cities to develop comprehensive plans and provided funding for planning under Section 701. problem - it led to the creation of plans for the purpose of acquiring federal funds rather than to truly plan for communities.
first skyscraper
chicago 1885
first dept. store
salt lake city 1868
first subway
boston 1897
ADT
Average Daily Traffic
ADDT
Annual Daily Traffic
VMT
Vehicle miles Traveled
Principal Arterials
serve longer trips, carry the highest traffic volumes, carry a large percentage of the VMT on minimum mileage,
Minor Arterials
interconnect the principal arterials, provide less mobility,
Collectors
provide both land access and traffic circulation with residential, commercial, and industrial areas by collecting
Local Streets
provide direct access to adjacent land and to the higher classified streets
Orgin Destination Study
a detailed survey to estimate travel demands on a traffic system. Road blocks set up and motorists within the cordon area asked questions on where they are traveling to/from.

Peak Hour/period

the highest volume of traffic in a day

single-family residential

10 Vehicle Trips per Unit

planned unit developments

8 Vehicle Trips per Unit
duplexes and townhouses
7 Vehicle Trips per Unit
apartments & condos
6 Vehicle Trips per Unit
mobile homes
5.5 Vehicle Trips per Unit
retirement homes
3.5 Vehicle Trips per Unit

shopping center

Range of parking: 1:1000 to 5:1000 (spaces:Gross Leasable Area)
office
Range of Parking: 1:2000 to 3:1000 (spaces:Gross Leasable Area)
general office
1:300 (spaces:gross floor area)
office & medical center
Range of Parking: 1:10 to 3:4 (spaces:employees)
medical center
Range of Parking: 3:4 to 9:2 (spaces:beds)
university/college
Range of Parking: 1:10 to 1:2 (spaces:students)
university/college

Range of Parking: 4:5 (spaces:staff persons)

hotel
Range of Parking needed: 1:5 to 3:2 (spaces:rooms)
restaurant
Range of Parking Needed: 5:1000 to 25:1000 (spaces:Gross Leasable Area)
resident
Range of Parking Needed: 1:5 to 2:1 (spaces:units)
cross tabulation model
estimates trip generation rates based on land use type, purpose, or socioeconomic characteristics.
trip distribution
examines where people are going. Regions are divided into traffic zones (TZA)and data is provided on # of trips between zones.
Modal Split
deals with how people get to where they want to go. car, bike, walk,bus

Highway Capacity Manual

provides concepts, guidelines, & procedures for computing highway capacity.

Level of Service (LOS)

the ability of a road or street to accommodate traffic flow determines the level of service provided. ranges from A to F based on amount of congestion. A = freeflowing and F means heavily congested with reduced speeds and increased time to get through traffic signals.

Federal Aid Highway Act
adopted in 1944 based on President Roosevelts 1939 system of highways the Act designated 65,000 kilometers of highway as interstate highways. The Act didnot initially provide any funding.
Public Roads Administration (PRA)
responcible for implementing the interstate highway system. It did not have funding until 1952.
Road Design
focuses on everything from the nature of the street to actual design guidelines for local streets.

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA)

Provied funding for highways, transit, pedestrian and bicycle facilities. TEA-21, TEA3, & SAFETEA followed
Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs)
created to meet federal requirements for urban transportation planning. Federal Aid Highway Act required urban areas w/ populations in excess of 50,000 to develop comprehensive transportation plans.
Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
In MPOs with population of 200,000 or greater a TIP is created that lists all projects for which federal funds are anticipated along with non-federally funded projects that are regionally significant. The plan prioritizes the projects.
Transportation Demand Management (TDM)
General term used to describe strategies for the efficient use of transportation. (car sharing, flextime, public transit, park-n-ride, HOV lanes, & telecomuting.
Tranit Oriented Development (TOD)
resiential and commercial developments designed to maximize access to different modes of transportation. Focus is not on car travel.
traffic calming
involves changes in street alignment, barriers, and other physical changes to the street coridor to reduce traffic speeds and cut-through traffic. (chicane, choker, roundabouts, speed humps, speed tables, traffic circles)
43,560 square feet of area within property lines of a lot or parcel.
Acre
A tax on property that is calculated based on a percent of value of the property taxed.
Ad Valorem Tax
Housing developed through some combination of zoning incentives, cost-effective construction techniques, and governmental subsidies that can be rented or purchased by low income households.
Affordable Housing
Any law, regulation, board, or process that has as its objective the preservation of farming on land dedicated to agricultural use. Examples include agricultural zoning, farmland preservation boards, property tax relief for farmers, & anti-nuisance laws.
Agricultural Land Protection
A zoning board of appeals has apellate jursidiction to review determinations of the zoning enforcement officer. Land use decisions of ZBA's, Planning Boards, and local legislature maybe appealed to the courts.
Applellate Jursidiction
Districts usually to provide a single service such as schools, water, sewerage treatment, toll roads, or parks. Maybe financed through revenue bonds retired by user charges. Some have taxation powers.
Authorities and Special Disticts
A map showing the essential natural or man-determined features of an area such aslot lines. Used as the starting point for many planning activities.
Base Map
An Interest bearing certificate issued by a government or business, promising to pay the holder a specified sum on a specified date- it is a common means of raising capital funds.
Bond
A local body, created by ordinance, whose responsiblity is to hear appeals from decisions of the local zoning administrative official and to consider requests for variances and exceptions (special use permits, conditional use permits)
Board of Adjustment
A local body, created by ordinance, whose responsiblity is to hear appeals from decisions of the local zoning administrative official and to consider requests for variances and exceptions (special use permits, conditional use permits)
Zoning Board of Appeals
Method of solicting random ideas, concepts, and concerns from citizens as part of a visioning or consensus building process. Ideas are typically written on a large tablet or black board by a facilitator and later transcribed for the participants.
Brainstorming
An intensive, interactive problem solving process with meetings convened around the development of specific plans.

Charette

Citizens groups presumed to represent the ideas and attitudes of local groups- the purpose to advise the planning agency.
Citizen Advisory Groups
A document or series of documents prepared by a planning commission or department setting forth policies for the future of a community.
Comprehensive Plan
Lines on a topographical map that indicate slope.

Contour Lines

A right given by the owner of land to another party for specific limited use of that land.
Easement
Legislation passed by the state legislature authorizing cities, towns, and villages to carry out functions in the public interest.

Enabling Act

The legal right of government to acquire or "take" private property for public use or public purpose upon paying just compensation to the owner.

Eminent Domain

Traditional as-of-right or self-executing zoning in which district regulations are explicit- residential, commercial, and industrial uses are segregated.
Euclidean Zoning
A contribution or payment required as an authorized precondition for receiving a development permit.
Exaction
A zoning district whose requirements are fully described in the text of the ordinance but which is unmapped.
Floating Zone
Computer mapping system that produces multiple "layers" of graphic information about a community or region.
GIS

Analysis used in transportation planning that eveluates the relationship between the force of attraction and the generation of vehicular trips. Provides trip estimates based on proportional attractiveness of the zone and inversely proportional to the trip length.

Gravity Model

Broad statements of ideal future conditions that are desired by the communtiy and contained in the comprehensive plan.

Goals

A business conducted in a residential dwelling unit that is incidental and subordinate to the primary residential use.
Home Occupation
The effective taking or reduction in value of a property as a result of public action, in contrast to a direct taking through eminent domain.
Inverse Condemnation
A system of describing & identifying land by measures and direction from and identifiable point of reference.
Base and meridian
An in-depth study that attempts to discover all the underlying economic factors that affect a community's growth or decline.
Economic Base Study
A range of values that includes a certain populations parameter with a given probability.
Confidence Interval
A technique developed to monitor the real pattern of money flows.
Input-Output Modeling

A technically integrated and jurisdictionally coordinated transportation system with such features as freeway management systems, advanced traffic surveillance, signal control systems and similar.

ITS - Intelligent Transportation Systems

Component of the General Plan that establishes land use goals and policies.
Land Use Element
A region's percentage share of a particular activity with its percentage share of the local versus National Market.
Location Quotient
Relatively free flow of traffic with little or no limitation on movement.
Level of Service A
Steady flow of traffic with only slight delays in travel. Some limitations on speed and movement. All vehicles clear light in a single cycle.
Level of Service B
Reasonable steady, high volume flow of traffic with some limitations on movement and speed, and occasional backups.
Level of Service C
Traffic nears an unstable flow. Intersections still functional, but short queues develop and cars may have to wait through one cycles during short peaks.
Level of Service D
Characterized by slow movement and frequent stoppages. Congestion is considered severe, but not uncommon at peak traffic hours, with frequent stopping, long standing queues and blocked intersections.
Level of Service E
Unsatisfactory stop and go traffic characterized by traffic jams and stoppages of long duration. Cars usually have to wait through one or more signal cycles.
Level of Service F
The process where one sets lower bounds for the various objectives that, if attained, will be "good enough" and then seeks a solution that will exceed these bounds.
Satisficing
New development designed with the pedestrian in mind.
TND or Traditional Neighborhood District
Retrofitting of existing suburbs with new growth areas along pedestrian areas around public transportation hubs.
PP or Pedestrian Pockets
A process in which general agreement is reached over a period of time people with divergent interests.
Concensus Building
Effort of a third party, usually a single person to persuade disputants to come to an agreement.
Mediation

Method of assessing project alternatives by weighting alternatives according to citizen group goals.

Goals Achievement Matrix (GAM)

Put planning related issue on ballot - challenges existing i.e. adopted plan

Referendum

Used to facilitate meaningful discussions through a moderator - developed by Rand Corporation

Delphi Method

To represent disadvantaged segments of population

Advocacy Planning
Planning approach for comprehensive plans, census in community,4 elements: goal setting-ID policy alternatives-eval means against ends- implement preferred alternative
Synoptic Rationality
Use change one aspect of plan- known as "science of muddling through", short-term problems with little time and little money.
Incremental Planning
Developed in 1960s to get public involved- planning by people for people- communituy meetings, quality of life not delivery of services.
Transactive Planning
Planning that does not work, i.e. allow neighborhood to take over planning functions.
Radical Planning
Solve Societys ills through physical planning, "Visionary", ie. Corbusiers "Contemporary City", Howards "Garden City", Burnhams "White City", Wrights "Broadacre City".
Utopianism
Clear method used to achieve an undefined/unknown means e.g. zoning reviews, public hearings, bldg code appeals, GIS, subdivision reviews.
Methodism
Rooted in agriculture most humanly valuable. T. Jefferson & Hector St John de Crevecoeur
Agrarian (1800s)
total unrestricted competition in society ultimately benefits & individual hardships from competition essential to ultimate good of state. Exploit the poor...
Laissez Faire (1800s)
Gov't involvement in public health & safety of worker. max standards, min hsg standards, light & air provisions.
Public Health (1800s)

Beauty of public works projects to attract wealthy, pleasant life of poor, accessible to all men, create unifying civic pride. Create broad, tree lined aves, bring light, air, nature to the slum. Burnham, Lomsted, McKim, St Gaudens, Gottlieb- St. Louis Worlds Fair, Carnegie Libraries.

City Beautiful (1900-1920s)
Big business lost interest, awarenesss of corruption-movement declined but emphasis of physical site planning was internalized in planning movements regulating development of suburbs.
City Beautiful (1900-1920s)

Began with Columbian Expo at Chicago worlds fair in 1893, White City, 1st US example of great group of bldgs. designed in relation to each other and to surrounding open space.

City Beautiful (1900-1920s)
Anti-urban, agarian, predicated on: sacredness of nature, inherent immorality of the city, & return to pre-industrial village.
Garden City ((1920s in US)
Lethchworth, England 1903-20, Welwyn England 1919-34, Radburn New Jersey 1928
Garden City ((1920s in US)

Influenced by Howard's cities & Raymond Unwin's "Hampstead Gardens" (1907). 1st comprehensive suburban neighborhood design, planning & physical design of residential with spatial open, lush green, parks, shopping, schools.

Garden City (1920s in US)

"City of Motor Age", superblocks & cul-de-sacs, public pedestrian ways between properties to natural amenities (parks,schools), utilize underpass to cross busy sts.

Garden City:Radburn, NJ 1928

Not really "Garden City" DID NOT HAVE planned greenbelt, not self-contained,not single tax rent system

Garden City:Radburn, NJ 1928
Emergency Relief Act 1935, admin by Rural Resettlement Admin, created for soil conservation, relocate farmers from poor to good soil, owned & operated by fed govt until sold to private during Eisenhower admin in 1950s.
Greenbelt Towns: Greenbelt MD- Greenhills, OH- Greendale, WI (1935-50s)
Never built because RRA stopped by courts -Fed govt couldn't use power of eminent domain that way.
Greenbrook, NJ
Massive land subdivisions and single-family hsg projects with few community facilities & built on model of war hsg projects of 1940s.
New Towns: Levittown, NY & Park Forest, IL (1947-1948)
Major amenities, large open spaces, high quality physical design. 75,000 pop cluster plan in 7 villages (10,000 ea). Satellite cities rather than uncontrolled sprawl. 6,810 acres 22% open space-detached townhomes, apts.
New Towns: Reston, VA (1960s)
Overlapping communities
New Towns: Columbia MD (1960s)
What is a DELPHI study
An analysis technique that utilizes surveys & anonymous experts
What are the 3 key elements of a DELPHI study
1) structure of information flow (surveys, respondents, & project manager) 2)feedback loop 3) participant anonymity and expertise
A DELPHI study can best study what type of problem
Simplistic, not mult-faceted

What two project management techniques model a network/sequence of parallel & corresponding tasks?

PERT & CPM

What is PERT?

Program Evaluation & Review Technique
What is CPM?
Critical Path Method

What is the difference between PERT & CPM

PERT: VARIABLE task times. CPM: FIXED task times.
Why does the task increment escalate in 10s in PERT
In order that new tasks may be inserted as project progresses
What two management principles deal with a hierachy of needs?
Maslow & ERG
What does ERG stand for?
Existence, Relatedness, Growth

What is the primary differences between Maslow & ERG?

Maslow: a large # multiple steps, each achieved at the completion of the next, all people act same. ERG: only 3 steps, steps may overlap or parrallel, and all people different

What is a Gantt chart?

Schematic that shows the steps/tasks of project on a parallel, horizontal model.

What is a WBS
Work Breakdown Stucture. It is a form of a Gantt chart, by which multi tasks are broken down and identifies
What role does a WBS play in project planning
Used prior to a CPM or PERT in order to identify the tasks
What is ZBB
Zero Based Budgeting. It is a budget process which assumes that the baseline budget each fiscal cycle is zero.

Why is ZBB good for government?

Because it helps ensure that projects are still needed & helps prevent spending from spiraling out of control.
What is a fiscal impact analysis?
Estimates the impact of a development or a land use change on the costs and revenues of governmental units serving the development.
What does a fiscal impact analysis evaluate?
revenues, expenditures, land values¬タヤand characteristics of the development or land use change¬タヤe.g., type of land use, distance from central facilities.
What is the benefit of a fiscal impact analysis
Estimates the difference between the costs of providing services to a new development and the revenues¬タヤtaxes and user fees, for example¬タヤthat will be generated by the development.
What is a cohort survival or logitudinal study?
A study that evaluates the same group, with the same base trait (ie: birth date) for a long period of time. May be compared to another group representing a larger population universe.
What is a shift-share study?
Land use study that evaluates the shift in a given issue's share (ie: population/employment) from one area to another.
What is a cost-benefit analysis?
A management study that evaluates the benefits of a solution (including programatic & personnel) costs to the value / benefit of the outcome.
Why is a cost-benefit analysis useful
Determine if a project/solution is worth implementing.
Best way to solicit citzen input in plan making
Neighborhood group leaders and citizen committees
Most effective way to generate adequate citizen participation
Developing a multi-faceted public information program

Common citizen surveys

Mailed-inexpensive but slow, telephone-fast,cheaper but some no phone & must have interviewers, in-person-works well but very expensive & could be bias.

Charrette

Intensive interactive problem-solving process convened around development of specific plans. Experts within & outside community.

Citizen Advisory Committee

Citizens groups presumed to represent the ideas and attitudes of local residents. Purpose to advise planning agency.
Planners primary obligation
Serve the public interest
Citizen referendum
Citizens vote their approval or disapproval of a public measure by official ballot.
Delphi technique
Used to develop consensus between two or more groups that are in conflict. Develop goals & objectives. Group facilitation skills.
Focus Groups
Representative sample of a community. Facilitated in an informal setting directed toward a specific subject.
Ladder of Citizen Participation: Sherry R. Arnstein
Defines citizen participation in terms of amount of control citizens have over policy decision. without distribution of power citizen participation is "empty ritual".
Factors are important to determining populaiton projections
Migration, birth rate, death rate

TIGER file

Digital database of geographic features, such as roads, railroads, rivers, lakes, legal boundaries, census statistical boundaries, etc. covering the entire United States

Cohort survival method of population projection

The study of a group by a specific characteristic (age, grade, income) increased by the rate that group survives onto the next year
Housing Unit Method (HUM)
A process of using housing data for population projections
Symptomatic indicators
Data series such as building permits that are reflective of population change and can be used in developing current population estimates
Composite method for estimating populations
Takes various age groups and determines the estimate for each, then aggregates them together

Constant share technique

Assumes that the portion of a sample's type (people, age, occupation, animal, etc..) in a given population/area will remain same over time

Shift share technique

An projection for employment / population that takes into account the shift/movement of jobs & people from or to a community
Flood Plain Map
A map that shows the vulnerability of a flood according to the 100 year flood
Soil Map
A map showing the distribution of soil types or other soil mapping units in a relation to the prominent and cultural features of the earth¬タルs surface
Soil Profile
A cross section of the earth's showing the makeup of the soil layers

Agency responsible for soil map database

NRCS (National Resource Conservation Service) division of US Dept of Agricultarue
Agency responsible for floodplain maps
FEMA
USGS orthophoto
An aerial photograph that has been altered in such a way that the lens distortions are removed & so that it may be scaled for mapping purposes
Scale of a USGS orthophoto
1:12,000
Electronic town meeting
Electronic tool used to gather public feedback on the WTC proposals
USGS topographic map
Scales = uses 1:24,000, 1:25,000, 1:50,000, 1:100,000, 1:250,000
Only map to cover the entire US in detail
USGS topographic map
First Year USGS topographic map produced
1879
Topographical map
A map that uses contour lines to portray the shape and elevation of the land. Topographic maps render the three-dimensional ups and downs of the terrain on a two-dimensional surface
Information on Topographical map
Both natural and manmade features. Natural features include: mountains, valleys, plains, lakes, rivers, and vegetation. Man made features include roads, boundaries, , transmission lines, and major buildings.
How many USGS topographic maps total?
55,000
Plan making
A three part process includes 1) Goals and visions, 2) Analysis of current problems, & 3 Creation of alternatives.
Visioning
A process whereby citizens attend a series of meetings that provide the opportunity to offer input on how the community could be in the future.
Strategic Planning

Short-term in focus & specific in accomplishing certain objectives. Used to assist an organization in guiding its future. Strategic planning sets goals, objectives, and policies for reaching the set objective

Goal
A general statement that may not be realized, but is something towards which to strive.
Objective
A more specific and attainable statement.
Survey
Research method that allows one to collect data on a topic that cannot be directly observed. Surveys are used extensively in planning to assess attitudes and characteristics of the public on a wide range of topics.
Cross-sectional survey
Gathers information about a population at a single point in time
Longitudinal surveys
Gathers information about a population over a period of time
Written surveys
Mailed, printed in a newspaper, administered in a group setting, or other method. Used when trying to obtain information from a broad audience. Low cost but typically low response rate.
Group-administered surveys
Used for specifc populations. Allows a high and quick response rate. This survey method requires a small sample size.
Drop-off Survey

Survey left at someone¬タルs residence or business to be completed. Response rates are higher than mail surveys because of personal contact with the respondent. Expensive due to time required to distribute. Sample size smaller than mail surveys.

Phone/Oral Interview Surveys

Useful for yes/no answers. Allows follow up on answers. Response rate varies greatly. Expensive method because of the time to complete. Can be biased by interaction with the interviewer. Difcult to use long questions and multiple answers w/ this method.

Electronic surveys

Growing in popularity. Administered on web or via e-mail. Inexpensive method that can generate quick responses. This method has a higher response rate than written or interview surveys. Downside will not reach people w/o Internet access.

Floor Area Ratio (FAR)
Is the ratio of the gross floor area of the building to its ground area. It is used primarily to determine building density on a site or, more specifically, the size of a building in relation to the size of the lot on which it sits.
Small Scale Map
Shows a large land area with little detail.
Large Scale Map
Shows a limited land area in great detail.
Contour lines
Show lines of equal elevation.
Contour Interval
Show distance between contour lines. The closer together the contour lines are, the steeper the terrain.
Slope

The change in elevation divided by the horizontal distance.

Slope of 0-0.5%
No drainage, not suited for development.
Slope of 0.5-1%
No problems, ideal for all types of development
Slope of 1 - 3%
Slight problems for large commercial areas acceptable for residential
Slope of 3 - 5%
Major problems for commercial/industrial/large scale residential
Slope of 5-10%
Suitable only for specially designed development.
Scale of 1:24,000
that 1 inch represents 2,000 feet.
1 acre 43 560 square feet
43 560 square feet
Normal Distribution
Symmetrical dispersion around the mean. This is a bell curve.
Population
The total of a collection.
Sample
A subset of the population.
Descriptive Statistics
Describe the characteristics of a population.
Inferential Statistics
Determines characteristics of a population based on observations made on a sample from that population. What is observed in the sample is assumed to apply to the population.
Central Tendancy
The typical or representative value of a dataset. Can be reported by a variety ways including mean, median, and mode.
Mean
Average of a distribution.
Median
The middle number of a distribution.
Mode
The most frequent number in a distribution
Nominal data
Data that is classified into mutually exclusive groups that lack intrinsic order. Race and sex are examples of nominal data. Mode is the only measure of central tendency that can be used for this data type.
Ordinal data
Data values are ordered so that inferences can be made regarding magnitude, but have no fixed interval between values. educational attainment or a letter grade on a test. Mode and median are the only measures of central tendency that can be used.
Interval data
data that has an ordered relationship with a magnitude, such as temperature. 10 degrees is not twice as cold as 20 degrees.
Ratio data
Data has an ordered relationship and equal intervals. Distance is an example--2 miles is twice as long as 1 mile. Any form of central tendency can be used for this type of data.
Range
Simplest measure of dispersion, it is the difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.
Variance
The average squared difference of scores from the mean score of a distribution.
Standard deviation
is the square root of the variance.
Standard Error
The standard deviation of a sampling distribution. Standard errors indicate the degree of sampling fluctuation. The larger the sample size the smaller the standard error.
Confidence Interval
Gives an estimated range of values that is likely to include an unknown population parameter. The width of the confidence interval gives us an idea of how uncertain we are about the unknown parameter.
Hypothesis
A statement expressing a relationship. Makes a prediction of what you are trying to prove.
Null hypothesis
Relationship makes no difference relationship has resulted from random chance.
Alternate hypothesis
States the hypothesis the research expects to support the possibility that an observed effect is genuine
Major population estimation and projection methods
Linear, Symptomatic, Ratio (Step-Down) Method, & Cohort Survival.
Linear Method
Uses the rate of growth (or decline) in population over a period of time to estimate the current or future population.
Symptomatic Method
Uses available data to estimate the current population.
Step-Down Ratio Method
Uses the ratio between the population of a city and a county (or larger geographical unit) at a known point in time, such as the decennial census. This ratio is used to project the current or future population.
Cohort Survival Method
Uses the current population plus natural increase and net migration to calculate a future population. The population is calculated for men and women in specific age groups.
Net Migration
The difference between the number of people moving in and the number of people moving out.
Economic Base Analysis
looks at basic and non-basic economic activities. Basic activities are those that can be exported, while non-basic activities are those that are locally oriented. The exporting (basic) industries make up the economic base of a region.
Basic Economic Activites
Those that can be exported, while non-basic activities are those that are locally oriented. The exporting industries make up the economic base of a region.
Non-Basic Activities
Locally oriented.
Location-Quotient (LQ)
A ratio of an industry¬タルs share of local employment divided by its share of the nation (or other level of government). A ratio of less than 1 indicates that an area imports an industry¬タルs products or services, a ratio of greater than 1 indicates exporting.
Shift-Share Analysis
Analyzes a local economy in comparison with a larger economy. This analysis looks at the differential shift, proportional shift, and economic growth.
Input-output analysis
Quantitative method to assist in economic policy decision-making. The analysis links suppliers and purchasers to determine the economic output of a region. Identifies primary suppliers, intermediate suppliers, intermediate purchasers, & final purchasers.
Household Income
Defined in terms of the amount of income they earn relative to 100% of the Area Median Income
Area Median Income (AMI)
Refers to the middle or midpoint income for a particular area. The term is used to estimate the "average" income for a particular area.
Moderate income households
Earn between 80-120% of Area Median Income.
Low income households
Earn between 50-80% of Area Median Income.
Very low income households
Earn no more than 50% of Area Median Income.
Poverty thresholds
Used for calculating all official poverty population statistics
Poverty guidelines
Simplified version used for administrative purposes e.g. determining financial eligibility for certain federal programs.
Poverty Rate
12.6 percent (increased for 4 years from 2000 - 2004)
Median household Income
$46,326 annually
Baby Boomers
People born between 1946 and 1964.
Generation X
People born between 1965 and 1976.
Echo Boom (Generation Y)
People born between 1977 and 2000.
Megalopolis
A many-centered, multi-city, urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants, generally dominated by low-density settlement and complex networks of economic specialization.
Urban cluster
A contiguous, densely settled census block groups and blocks that meet minimum population density requirements, along with adjacent densely settled census blocks that together encompass a population of at least 2,500 people but fewer than 50,000 people.
Urbanized Area
A contiguous, densely settled census block groups and blocks that meet minimum population density requirements, along with adjacent densely settled census blocks that together encompass a population of at least 50,000 people.
Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
Digital data about the elevation of the earth's surface as it varies across communities allows planners to analyze and map it.
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR )
Uses a laser, instead of radio waves, that is mounted in an airplane to provide detailed topographic information.
Fiscal Impact Analysis
Used to estimate the costs and revenues of a proposed development on a local government.
Average Per Capita Method
Divides the total local budget by the existing population in a city to determine the average per-capita cost for the jurisdiction. Type of Fiscal Impact Analysis
Adjusted Per Capita Method
Varries fiscal impact based on expectations about the new development. Type of Fiscal Impact Analysis
Disaggregated Per Capita Method
Estimates the costs and revenues based on major land uses. Type of Fiscal Impact Analysis
Dynamic Method
Applies statistical analysis to time-series data from a jurisdiction. Type of Fiscal Impact Analysis
The Ordinance of 1785
Established a system of rectangular survey coordinates for virtually all of the country west of the Appalachians. Established the basis for the Public Land Survey System.
Public Land Survey System
Land was to be systematically surveyed into square townships, six miles on a side. Each of these townships was sub-divided into thirty-six sections of one square mile or 640 acres (259 hectares).
TIGER Files Include
Roads, Census Blocks, and Census Tracts
Base Map
Type of map used as a starting point for many planning projects, shows the essential natural or man determined features of an area.
All communications with the Executive Director regarding specific ethical situations should occur using which methods of communication?
Phone and/or Letters
The necessity of the highest standards of fairness and honesty among participants of the planning process is required because?
Planning issues usually involve: conflict of values and large private interests.
The planning process exists¬タᆭwhy?
To serve the public interest.
Ethical principles 1. The planning process must continuously _______and faithfully ______the public interest.
Pursue- Serve
Ethical principle 2. Planning process participants continuously strive to achieve high standards of _______ and proficiency so that the public respect for the planning process will be maintained.
integrity
Planner¬タルs primary obligation?
To serve the public interest
What is formulated through continuous debate
The definition of public interest
Planners Owe alliance to what?
Conscientiously attained concept of the public interest
Who does a planner owe diligent, creative independent and competent performance to?
Employer or Client
Diligent, Creative, Independent and Competent performance in pursuit of the employer¬タルs or clients interest should be consistent with what?
Faithful service to the public interest.
A Planner should strive for high ________ of professional integrity, __________ and knowledge.
Standards ¬タモ proficiency
Who can you seek informal advise on ethics from?
Ethics Officer
Is the informal advice from the Ethic officer binding upon the AICP?
No, but it will be condiered in the event a
A formal advisory ruling request on the propriety of any professional planner¬タルs conduct must be submitted in writing to whom?
Only the Ethics Officer
Will the Ethics Officer provide a written charge of misconduct to the person who is accused with the misconduct (respondent)?
Yes
What will Ethics Officer do after receiving an alleged charge of misconduct and providing a copy to the person being accused?
Determine if the charges warrant an investigation
The Ethics Officer with or without an investigation may do which two things?
1. Dismiss the charge- 2. Issue a complaint against the respondent
At least _______ before the hearing, the Ethics Officer and the Respondent shall exchange lists of proposed witnesses who will testify, and copies of all exhibits that will be introduced, at the hearing.
30 calendar days
When an appeal is filed to an Ethics Officer¬タルs decision, who gets to make the next determination?
AICP Ethics Committee
If there is disputed matter in an ethics complaint and the respondent is granted a hearing with the Ethics Committee, are the formal rules of evidence used?
No, however the substantive rights of the respondent shall at all times be protected.
Identified Charging Parties who are notified of the dismissal of their ethics charges shall have ___________ from the date of the receipt of their dismissal letters to file an appeal with the Ethics Committee.
Identified Charging Parties who are notified of the dismissal of their ethics charges shall have 30 calendar days from the date of the receipt of their dismissal letters to file an appeal with the Ethics Committee.
Is the AICP hearing on the Charge of Misconduct open to the public?
No
Can a settlement be reached before a complaint is issued?
Yes, the ethics officer can negotiate one with the respondent and the charging party or reccomend one without the charging party's consent with the approval of the Ethics Committee.
All Written opinions endorsed by the Commission or by the Ethics Committee are published. What is omitted from the publication?
Actual Names and Places, unless authorized by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Commission or in writing by the respondent.
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when: (there are three)
1)Submission¬タᆭis a term or condition of employment- 2)Submission or rejection..is used as a bases for employment decisions-3)Such conduct has the¬タᆭ.effect of unreasonably interfering with¬タᆭwork performance or creating an intimidating, hstile/ofsive wrk env.
Certified planners can not perform work on a project for a client or employer if, in addition to the agreed upon compensation there is a possibility for direct personal or financial gain to us, our family members, or persons living in our household unless
The client or employer, after full written disclosure from the planner, consents in writing to the arrangement.
As salaried employee, can a certified planner undertake other employment in planning or a related profession, whether or not for pay?
Only with full written disclosure to the primary employer and having received subsequent written permission unless our employer has a written policy, which expressly dispenses with a need to obtain such consent.
If the Ethics Committee determines that the Ethics Officer has demonstrated that the Rules of Conduct have been violated, it shall also determine the appropriate sanction (3 options):
Reprimand, suspension, or expulsion.
Who can file a charge of misconduct against a Certified Planner?
Any person, whether or not an AICP member
Is a planner who receives a charge of misconduct allowed legal representation?
Yes, either when a prelimanry respsonse is requested or at any later point in the procedure.
Submission to unwanted attention is a term or condition of employment
Sexual harrassment
Submission or rejection to unsolicted attention is used as a bases for employment decisions
Sexual harrassment
Unwanted attention has the effect of unreasonably interfering withwork performance or creating an intimidating, hstile/offensive work environment.
Sexual harrassment
The Respondent has how long from receipt of a Complaint in which to file an Answer?
30 calendar days
Who can give give formal advice on the propriety of a planner's proposed conduct?
Only the Ethics Officer
Is sexual harassment specifically cover by the AICP code of conduct?
No
The Ethics Officer will respond to requests for formal or informal advice within
21 days
Who may file a charge of misconduct against a Certified Planner?
Any person, whether or not an AICP member
What standard must AICP misconduct charges meet?
The Ethics Officer will have the burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, that misconduct occured.
What standard of proof must ethics charges meet?
Preponderance of the evidence
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Staff Functions
Provide Services to other governmental entities
Line Functions
Provide services directly to the public (i.e. subdivision reviews, rezoning cases, code enforcement)
GAM stands for:
Goals Acheivement Matrix
GAM
Chart that shows the anticipated attainment of a project's goals and the assignment of accomplishing a goal to a group
Gantt Chart
Focuses on a sequence of tasks necessary for project completion. Each task is represented as a horizontal bar on an XY chart. X is time.
Linear Programming
project management method that attempts to find the optimum design solution for a project. This system takes a set of decision variables within constraints and comes up with an optimum design solution
PERT stands for:
Program Evaluationand Review Techinique
PERT
Scheduling method that graphically illustrates the interrelationship of the project tasks. Identify milestones, determine sequence, network diagram, critical path, update PERT chart as project progresses
CPM stands for:
Critical Path Method
CPM
tool to analyze a project. The analysis results in a "critical path" through the project tasks. each task has a know amount of time to complete and cannot be completed before its previous one is completed. The longest pathway is the critical pathway.
PERT and CPM work when?
A project is of a large scale. Using software.
Strategic Planning
used to assist in guiding the future. Sets goals, objectives, and policies for reaching objectives.
Strategic Plan should address major questions:
1. What is the current situation and how is it going to change? 2. Where are we going as an org? 3. How will we get there?
Eight elements of a Strategic Plan
1Analyze the community's needs 2Identify results-det the long-term objectives that will be pursued 3Admit uncertainties-SWOT analysis relating to the objectives 4Inv stakeholders 5.Dev & eval alt's 6ID role of City 7Dev funding policy 8Eval performance
Strategic Planning is ________ -term in focus and is specific in accomplishing certain________________
short, objectives
An operating budget includes:
the everyday expenditures of an organization, such as supplies, personnel, and maintenance of office space
A capital budget includes:
long-term purchases, such as a new building, a rec center, water main, or majore equipment.
Capital Budget is for the period of
one year
Capital Improvements Program is for the period of
Five to ten years
CIP includes
project descriptions, estimated costs, construction timeline, and sources of funding
Budgeting can be used for (name 5)
resource allocation, financial control management control, a communication tool, a planning tool
Line-item Budgeting
the emphasis is on projecting the budget for the next year and adding in inflationary costs
Advantages of Line Item Budgeting
Does not require eval of existing services, is easy to prepare and justify, and is easy for public officials to understand
Disadvantages of Line Item Budgeting
lack of flexibility, lack between budget request and objectives of the organization
Line-Item Budget looks at ________ year(s) and is not linked to:
ONE, strategic, comprehensive, or capital improvement plans.
PPBS stands for:
Planning, Programming, Budgeting Systems
PPBS is focused on planning through
accomplishing goals set by the department
Advantage of PPBS
it helps deparments place programs in perspective and evaluate efforts and accomplishments
Disadvantages of PPBS
Time consuming, requires goals and objectives to be stated in measurable terms
PPBS includes:
Program mission statements, objectives, and indicators of success.
ZBB stands for:
Zero Based Budgeting
ZBB
Emphasizes Planning and fosters understanding within all units of the organization
Performance Based Budgeting is focused on
linking funding to performance measures.
Pay-as-you-go Financing
uses current funds to pay for capital improvement projects
Reserve Funds
are ones that have been saved for the purchase of future capital improvements
General Obligation Bonds
are voter approved bonds for capital improvements. GO Bonds use the tax revenue of the gov. to pay back the debt
Revenue Bonds
use a fixe source of revenue to pay back debt. i.e. water use fees could be used to pay back revenue bonds for a water main
TIF stands for
Tax Increment Financing
TIF allows a designated area to
have tax revenue increases used for capital improvements in the area
Special Assessments
allow a particular group of people to be assesssed the cost of a public improvement.
Lease-purchase allows a governement to
"rent to own"
GRANTS are available to government by
all levels of government, the private sector and foundations
Taxes are used to generate revenue to:
finance government and redistribute income
Three types of taxes:
Progressive, proportional, and regressive
Progressive Taxes
The tax rate increases as income rises
Proportional Tax
The tax rate is the same regardless of income
Regressive Tax
The tax rate decreases as income rises
Criteria used for the implementation of a tax:
fairness, certainty, convenience, efficiency, productivity, and neutrality
Tax-Write off
when governments offer tax inventives in order to attract economic development
Design Charette
intensive collaborative effort that brings together citizens, stakeholders, and staff to develop a detailed design plan for a certain area
Delphi Method
structured process of citizen participation with the intent of coming to a consensus
Facilitation
uses a person who does not have a direct stake in the outcome of a meeting to help groups that disagree work together to solve complex problems and come to a consesus decision.
Mediation
is a method where a neutral third party facilitates discussion in a structured multi-stage process to help parties reach a satisfactory agreement.
Public Hearing
A meeting before a public body allowing for formal citizen input. Public hearings are typically mandated by law.
Visual Preference Survey
a technique that can be used to assist citizens in evaluating physical images of natural and built environments.
Visioning
a process whereby citizens attend a series of meetings that provide the opportunity to offer input on how the community could be in the future. Visioning is typicall a 20 to 30 year outlook
problem definition steps
1define problem 2specify boundaries 3develop fact base 4list goals & objectives 5identify range of solutions 6define potential costs & benefits 7review the problem statement
Used making a decision on whether or not to spend money to build a new senior center or hire more police.
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Retaining existing business and industry is a goal of?
Economic Development Programs
Attracting business is a goal of?
Economic Development Programs
Developing and financing facilities that help capture business is a goal of?
Economic Development Programs
When material that is a matter of public record containing sensitive, private, or confidential information is removed from a public file.
Redaction
Concurrency is attributable to which state?
Florida
The most common measure of traffic volume is?
LOS
Compares what a community gains from a project to what must be sacrificed to obtain it.
Cost-Benefit Analysis
A systematic comparision between the amount one section of the communty is paying to the cost of serivices provided to that sector.
Cost-Revenue Analysis
Its purpose is to assist the city in determining if the project will generate sufficient revenue to defray the cost of public services.
Fiscal Impact Study
The industrial classification system that replaced the SIC is?
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Utilize quantitative methods to analyze impact on the community- ie economic base theory, location quotient, shift-share, etc.
Economic Development Plans
Use of info or current data symptomatic of what is being studied- ie sampling
Estimate
"Best Guess" - id future considtion analysist feels to occur- decisions & judgement with respect to various factors & variables- might be skewed
Forecast
"what If" about future if assumptions prove true (IF)
Projection
Constructed to avoid undesirable futures, make desired forecasts come true, to create more desirable futures
Plan
Method adds a shift factor to account for jobs into or out of local economy due to factors affecting local economy.
Shift-share
Method determines level of basic sector employment by comparing local economy to economy of larger geographic region, State or country.
Location Quotient
Method which allows analysts to quantify and evaluate connections between industrial sectors.
Input-Output Modeling
Give money to develop businesses in a certain location.
Place-Related Programs (Carter) Federal fundiing 1960s
Enacted in 1994-Federal funds to distressed areas.
Empowerment Zone Program (Clinton)
Zone with tax breads for new investment are offered - tax reductions, direct grants, waiving land use requirements.
Enterprize zone
Special Tax/Revenue Bonds
Repaid from earmarked taxes or user charges
Private Activity Bonds
Repaid with receipts from private firm
Performance Bonds
Required by City & County gov conver offsite public improvement obligations associated with commerecial & residential developments.
Impact fees & tax increment financing
Used to pay for capital projects
Revenue bonds
usually pays for parking garages, swater and sewer systems, landfills etc.
Capital Improvement Progamming
one way to implement comprehensive plan
Capital Improvement Program (CIP)
prepared by planning director or planning commission, use collaboration-consensus building.
Community Development Block Grants
Administered by HUD on formula basis for entitlement communities and by State Dept of Hsg & Community Development (HCD) for non-entitlement jurisdictions. Came about after Housing & Community Development Act of 1974.
Community Development Block Grants
Eliminates blight, slums, health & safety issues,provide decent home to evey family, rational use of land, reduce isolation of income groups, economic opportunity for low and moderate income, Cities with 50,000 pn+, low & moderate pn, prepare a HAP
Growth Management goal 1
protect lands that provide public & quasi public goods
Special Tax/Revenue Bonds
Repaid from earmarked taxes or user charges
Private Activity Bonds
Repaid with receipts from private firm
Performance Bonds
Required by City & County gov conver offsite public improvement obligations associated with commerecial & residential developments.
Impact fees & tax increment financing
Used to pay for capital projects
Revenue bonds
usually pays for parking garages, swater and sewer systems, landfills etc.
Capital Improvement Progamming
one way to implement comprehensive plan
Capital Improvement Program (CIP)
prepared by planning director or planning commission, use collaboration-consensus building.
Community Development Block Grants
Administered by HUD on formula basis for entitlement communities and by State Dept of Hsg & Community Development (HCD) for non-entitlement jurisdictions. Came about after Housing & Community Development Act of 1974.
Community Development Block Grants
Eliminates blight, slums, health & safety issues,provide decent home to evey family, rational use of land, reduce isolation of income groups, economic opportunity for low and moderate income, Cities with 50,000 pn+, low & moderate pn, prepare a HAP
Growth Management goal 1
protect lands that provide public & quasi public goods
Special Assessment Districts
Area subject to special prop tax assessment for financing special improvements in district.
General Obligation Bonds
Repaid from general taxes
Growth Management goal 2
Accommodate Development needs
Urban growth boundaries (UGB)
Identifies when/where land available for development 20-25 yrs growth in employment & population.
Urban Service Areas (USA)
Geographic areas targeted for new or improved infrastructure or for public fac. & urban services next 5-10 yrs.
Intermediate Growth Boundaries (IGB)
Formed within Urban growth boundaries (UGB) where development channeled over time.
Urban Reserve Boundaries
define land outside UGB which free for development should UGB expand.
Growth Management goal 3
Provide adequate public facilities and services at minimum cost & distribute costs equitably.
Growth Management goal 4
Distribute the burdens of and benefits of growth fairly- communities share plan, finance & manage- use regional approach- housing- share wealth, lulus.
Growth Management goal 5
Prevent or mitigate negative and foster positive externalities- separation of incompatible land uses- containment of urban dev- use zoning & buffers.
Growth Management goal 6
Provide admin efficiency-streamlined permitting procedures- streamlined judicial review.
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Used to compare & advocate policies by quantifying total costs & effects. Costs measured iin monetary terms- effects measured in units of any type.
Cost-Revenue Analysis
systematic comparison of two money flows.
Fiscal Impact Analysis
Detemines whether project generates sufficient revenues to offset cost of public services. similar to cost-revenue but CR broader application-impacts on public service. FI-fiscal implications of cost of public services & infrastructure.
Municipal Financing Methods
lease purchase- special assessments- special districts- state & federal grants- tax increment financing.
Economic Development dimensions
Employment, development base, location assets, knowledge resources.
local economic development stratgegy
locality development, business development, HR devlopment, community development
Exaction
contribution or payment required as authorized precondition for receiving a development permit-mandatory dedication or fee-in-lieu of dedication reqmts.
Windfall tax
tax on a financial benefit conferred on a property owner as a result of a publlic action. Recapture windfall profits by the public.
Revenue forecasting
Requires understanding of past, an object view of future & intuitive feel of future.
Budget
Allocating & spending tax $ to provide services to the public that woulod otherwise have to be provided by themselves. Series of goals with price and priorities.
Operating Budget
Everyday expenditures for salaries, supplies, and maintenance.
Planning programming budget system (PPBS)
Technique that organizes budget so it relates to a goal or activity.
Zero Base Budgeting
Budget starts from scratch every year.
Taxes
Generate revenues to finance govt goods & services, redistribute income, reduce income and spending when overall demand is excessive.
Criteria when imposing tax
Fairness, certainty, convenience, efficiency, productivity, neutrality.
Progressive tax
Tax rate increases as income rises.
Proportional tax
Tax rate is constant as income rises.
Regressive tax
Tax rate declines as income rises.
Current Revenue
Current funds for capital improvements
Reserve funds
Accumulation of funds for future capital improvements
General Obligation Funds
Votger approval to sell bonds for capital improvements
Revenue Bonds
Sell bonds at high interest rates for capital improvements
Lease Purchase
Private developer pays for capital improvement and municipality "rents-to-own"
Assignment of or symbols (renaming, categorical) for purpose of designating subclasses that represent unique characteristics. Weakness level of measurement, meaningless to find mean, standard deviations, etc.
Nominal Scale
Assignment of or symbols identifying ordered relationships of some characteristic but having unspecified intervals.
Ordinal
Assignment of for purpose of identifying ordered relations of some characteristic. Can mathematically see differences between values on the scale. (ie. temperature)
Interval Scale
Assignment of for purpose of identifying ordered relations of some characteristic, order having arbitrarily assigned & equal interval and absolute zero point. Meets math assumptions to perform arithmetic operations.
Ratio Scale
nominal and sometimes ordinal
Qualitative
interval or ratio
Quantitative
Takes on finite number of values. Generally whole numbers.
Discrete variable
Where any numaber value can change to another in a given moment (ie. interest rate)
Continuous variable
fixed value throughout time (ie. male or female)
Dichotomous variable
Basic tool for organizing data. Helps researcher "see" data. Easy to sort from lowest to highest values. Count of occurances. Add % of occurrance for each score and cumulative frequency.
Frequency Distribution
Most frequent score in distribution. Can have more hatn one mode - b i-modal.
Mode
sum of scores in distribution divided by number of scores.
Mean
Midpoint or midscore in distribution 50% of observations fall above, 50% below. Can be calculated for ordinal, interval or ratio data.
Median
Probability of distribution that is symmetrical around the mean. A BELL CURVE.
Normal Distribution
Probability curve where a few high numbers pulls the mean to the right.
Skewed right
Probability curve where few low numbers pulls the mean to the left
Skewed left
Difference between highest and lowest score
Range
Measure of how spread out a distribution is. Computed as average squared deviation of each number from its mean.
Variance
Test viability of null hypothesis in light of experimental data. Depending on data, null hypothesis either will or will not be rejected as a viable possibility.
Hypothesis Testing
Reverse of what experimenter actually believes-put forward to allow data to contradict it.
Null Hypothesis
Statement expressing relationships between phenomena. Acceptance or non-acceptance upon logical analysis of data using scientific method. 1st describe prediction (trying to prove)- 2nd describe possible outcomes.
Research Hypothesis
Test statistic provides a measure of the amount of difference between the two frequency distributions.
Chi Square - non-parametric
Difference between the cost of a particular policy or project to gov unit & benefits to gov unit.
Fiscal Impact Analysis
Cost & benefits of competing altern during life of program. Impact of inflation. Present value cals give future value by applying discount rate-considers impact of inflation & growth of services over time. Actual dollars-no inflation, constant dollars yes
Cost Benefit Analysis
The location quotient (LQ) is an index for comparing an area's share of a particular activity with the area's share of some basic or aggregate phenomenon.
Location quotient
a technique sometimes used for forecasting land use, most often for forecasting changes in a set of urban areas or regions. (ie. employment and population are growing or declining)
shift-share analysis
Decomposes employment growth (or decline) in a region over a given time period into three components: (1) a national growth effect, (2) an industry mix effect, (3) a competitive effect. Sum of these three effects equals the actual change in total employme
shift-share analysis
examines historical trends in the regional economy, including recent changes in employment and business establishments, civilian labor force and unemployment rates, wages, labor force skill levels, and other related data.
Economic Base analysis
quantifies the multiple economic effects resulting from a change in the final demand for a specific product or service.
Input-Output Economic Analysis
Used to analyze the profitability of an investment or project. Sensitive to the reliability of future cash inflows that an investment or project will yield.
Net Present Value
Frequency distribution of one variable when another is held fixed at each of the several levels.
Regression
concerns a number of procedures concerned with comparing two averages.
T-test
Most comprehensive approach to project eval. Shows anticipated attainment of projects goal and assignment of accomplishing goal to a group.
Goals Achievement Matrix (GAM)
Focuses on single objective and projects effeictiveness with respect to that objective. When 2 or more projects achieve same level of service, comparision comes down to cost.
Cost Effectiveness Analysis (CEA)
Compares community gains from project to what community must forego in order to achieve. Project with higher ratio that 1 provides more benefits than costs.
Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)
Focuses on costs and revenues associated with specific form of growth. Resust is statement of net govt surplus or deficit expressed in financial terms.
Cost Revenue Anslysis (CRA)
Scheduling technique that graphically depicts inter-relationships of tasks that constitute project.
PERT -Program evaluation and review technique
Used to determine most critical steps to keep project going.
Critical Path Programming
Determines whether project will generate sufficient revenues to defray public service costs.
Fiscal Impact Analysis
Industries that draw money into economy from outside its borders.
Basic Industries
Industries serve the needs of local populance and businesses in localities borders.
Non-basic Industries
Ratio of employment in basic industries to non-basic industries that utilizes economic multipliers. Varies with size of community. Larger community, larger multiplier.
Export Ratio
Technique to monitor real pattern of money flows. Increase in production in one industry results in increases in other industries. Shows relationships among sectors of an economy.
Input-Output modeling
Two cities attract retail trade from any mid-sized town in direct proportion to population of 2 cities and in inverse proportion to the square of the distances from these 2 cities from the mid-sized town.
Retail Gravitational Law (by W.J. Reilly)
Group to generalize to
Population
Subset of the population.
Sample
the fact researcher is interested in explaining
Dependant Variable
variable used to explain the one dependent or causally prior to dependent variable.
Independent Variable
When experimenter can intentionally create variation in independent variable (ie. amount of funding)
Manipulation
Rival explanations for behavior of dependent variable.
Confounding Variable
units observations are made (regions, municipalities, etc)
Subjects
Set of data with which treatment group is compared.
Control
Subjects have equal chance of being assigned to treatment group or control group-purely by chance.
Randomization
Program rather than other factor caused results.
Internal Validity
Can the effect be expected under similar conditions in other settings.
External Validity
Convenience sampling-those accessible- volunteer sampling - volunteers-OK for descriptive results, may be bias, not representative of population
non-probability sampling
Individual has equal chance of being selected for sample
Simple random (probability sampling)
every Xth individual selected form list, starting randomly chosen point
Systematic (probability sampling)
Population may have 2 or more groups in study-provides best results- ensures even coverage of population- maintains random selection probabilities.
Stratified (probability sampling)
Used when stratified or simple random sampling would be difficult and/or expensive.
Cluster (probability sampling)
As ______increases, standard error decreases
Sample size
What level does corridor transportation planning typically occur at?
Regional level
Most corridor transportation planning is conducted by the .....?
Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)
The National Corridor Planning and Development Program is a grant program that is funded as part of ....?
SAFETEA-LU
What deos SAFETEA-LU stand for? Who founded it and what year?
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users: which governs US Federal surface transportation spending through FY10, was signed into law by President George W. Bush in Montgomery, IL. Aug 10, 2005.
Programs provide funding for planning, project development, construction and operation of projects that serve border regions near Mexico and Canada and high priority corridors throughout the US. What program is this?
National Corridor Planning & Development Program & the Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program (CORBOR).
The National Scenic Byways Program is a...?
US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration program developed in 1992
Purpose of the program is to designate & fund enhancements of scenic hwys across the US. In order to receive Scenic Byway Designation, the roadway must have archaeolgoical, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, &/or scenic qualities.
The National Scenic Byways Program
Which is the best way to solicit citzen input in plan making?
Neighborhood group leaders and citizen committees
Which generates the most effective adequate citizen participation?
Developing a multi-faceted public information program
Common citizen surveys
mailed-inexpensive but slow, telephone-fast,cheaper but some no phone & must have interviewers, in-person-works well but very expensive & could be bias.
Charrette
Intensive interactive problem-solving process convened around development of specific plans. Experts within & outside community.
Task Force
agency-sponsored committee with a specific task related to a single problem.
Citizen Advisory Committee
Citizens groups presumed to represent the ideas and attitudes of local residents. Purpose to advise planning agency.
Citizen referendum
Citizens vote their approval or disapproval of a public measure by official ballot.
Delphi technique
used to develop consensus between two or more groups that are in conflict. Develop goals & objectives. Group facilitation skills.
Focus Groups
Representative sample of a community. Facilitated in an informal setting directed toward a specific subject.
Alinsky's Org: Paul Alinsky
Funding guarantee- paid organizer to neighborhood or community-Organizer identifies problem, develop citizen awareness with them & action- power is basis for successfully negotiating for economic and political gains.
Advocacy Planning: Paul Davidoff
Planner takes into account interests of those affected by plan- planners involved in political process as advocates for interests of gov and groups-mostly low income & minority.
Ladder of Citizen Participation: Sherry R. Arnstein
Defines citizen participation in terms of amount of control citizens have over policy decision. without distribution of power citizen participation is "empty ritual".
Citizen Participation & Code of Ethics
Continuing responsibility of professional planners- include disadvantaged citizens- special efforts required to reach disadvantaged- "Planners primary obligation is to serve the public interest".
Freedom of speech applies to adult uses and signs. Freedom of religion applies to religious facilities. Freedom of association applies to group homes. What amendment?
1st amendment
This applies in cases of takings and eminent domain- just compensation for takings. What amendment
5th amendment
Due process can be applied to takings, eminent domain, and exactions. What amendment?
14th Amendment
What type of zoning is equal protection applied to?
exclusionary zoning
What constitutional principles relates to the ruling in Dolan v. City of Tigard (1994)?
Takings
Munn v Illinois (1876)
In this case which concerned whether a grain operator had to comply with city ordinances, the court ruled that private property becomes a public interest when it is used in a manner which affect the community at large
Cochran v Preston (1908)
Determined that Baltimore could control height based on the concern that excesive height could pose a fire hazard. Established a nexus between legislative intent & legislative standard.
Welch v Sawsey (1909)
Upheld a Boston law that differentiated height restriction between commercial & residential areas. Determined that height controls were a legitimate excersise of police powers.
Eubank v City of Richmond (1912)
Overturned a Richmond ordinance that enabled a set of property owners from controling the private rights of others in the neighborhood. Resulted in a deprivation of due process & equal protection.
Hadacheck v Sebastian
Upheld L.A. law that prevented landowners from manufacturing bricks on private property because the property had been annexed into the city & the excavation of the valuable soil was not restricted.
Thomas Cusack Co v City of Chicago (1917)
Upheld law that allowed community members to vote on whether a billboard would be allowed in the neighborhood. Determined erection of billboards could negatively impact community's health, safety, & welfare.
Town of Windsor, CT v Whitney (1920)
Court held that cities could require developers to provide a development plan that included the layout (location, width, and building placement, and infrastructure placement) for highways & roads.
Romar Realty v Board of Commissioners (1921)
Overturned a law which sought to establish building heights & lot lines expressly for "aesthetic considerations" because such concerns do not impact health, safety, & welfare of a community.
Inspector of Building of Lowell v Stoklosa (1924)
Upheld city ordinance which created sepate areas/zones for business & residential areas.
Zahn v Public Works of LA (1925)
Upheld legislation that prohibited business uses in residential areas even if it diminished some of the property's value and there were business operations existing in the area that had been established prior to the zoning change.
Euchlid v Ambler Realty (1926)
Upheld zoning ordinance that separated "uncompatible" land uses
Washington Ex Rel. Seattle Trust Co v Roberge
Overturned an ordinance that arbitrarily delegated power to determine acceptance of child/senior home to the surrounding property owners. Violation of due process.
Jones v City of Los Angeles (1930)
Overturned part of a legislation that sought to cause exisiting businesses to cease once a new zoning classification was placed upon it. Upheld idea of "nonconforming uses"
Dowsey v Kensington (1931)
Found that there is fine line between reasonable use of police powers to restrict lawful use of private property and takings. Determined that the ordinance stepped over the line & deemed unconstitutional.
Welton v Hamilton (1931)
Overturned a Chicago ordinance which delegated zoning appeals to another body that had not been elected by the citizens without providing standards for ruling & criteria for judgement which resulted in the body having arbitrary authority.
US v Certain Lands, City of Louisville (1935)
Overturned a proposed US gov't action to secure lands through condemnation for purpose of cleaning slums as a provision of the National Industrial Recovery Act. Determined the federal gov't has no police powers in local land use concerns.
NYC Housing Authority v Muller (1936)
Upheld a NYC action to condem private property to place city owned & operated housing projects on it. Housing for poor/low income is a legitimate use concern for police powers.
Austin v Older (1938)
Upheld a Michigan city ordinance that prevented an existing non-comforming use to place a second nonconforming structure on the property.
People of Tuoky v City of Chicago (1946)
Upheld the right for a city to condem slums/blighted areas for public ownership & that levying taxes for said purpose is a legitimate exercise of a governments taxation powers.
Ayres v City of L.A. (1949)
Upheld the right for the LA planning commission to place conditions on a development during the review process. A nexus existed between the development conditions & protection of public interests.
Pennsylvania Coal Company v Mahon
A land regulation was that diminished the economic viability land constitutes a taking under the Fifth Amendment
1978 - Takings Ruling - Penn Central Transportation Company v. City of New York
Found that a NYC Preservation Law was not a "taking" 1)Land use & economic viability remained and 2) Historic preservation is in the public's general welfare
Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas - 1974
Communities may restict unrelated individuals from living together in a single dwelling unit
Young v. American Mini Theatres - 1976
Zoning of adult entertainment facilities is not a violation of the 1st Amendment
5th Ammendment
Protects agains a taking without just compensation
Takings Definition
A restriction of the use of privately owned land, or the actual taking of the land through eminent domain by governmental entities, without fair payment and/or without any benefit to the public. Protected against by the 5th Amendment
1977 Moore v East Cleveland
The Court found an ordnance that prevented a grandmother and a grandson from living together violated the Due Process Law of the 14th Ammendment
Why was East Cleveland's "non-family" definition overturned by the courts & Belle Terra's uphelp?
E Cleveland -- The parties were RELATED though not parent/child. Belle Terra's -- The parties were UNRELATED individuals.
Metromedia v. San Diego - 1981
Sign ordinanced which allows commercial signs in places noncommercial signs are not allowed is unconstitution because 1) noncommercial speech has higher 1st Amendment protection than commercial speech and 2) regulations may not be based on message content
What does the POLICE POWER of Planning refer to?
The regulation of personal property to prevent a use of the property that is detrimental to the public interest or general welfare.
AGINS V. TIBURON (1980) -- What is the Takings Test that resulted from this ruling?
The AGINS test asks whether the regulation advances some legitimate government purpose and whether the property owner has any economic use left over after the regulation is applied. If the answer to either part is no, a taking may be found
Berman v. Parker - 1954
Upheld urban renewal practices, in which governments sought to revitalize urban areas by removing slums and eliminating blight - even those where government took the land from one pricate land owner & gave it to another private land owner
What is significant about the taking ruling in Berman v Parker - 1954
It changed the test for eminent domain as the Court transformed the words 'public use' to mean 'public purpose'.
What must every government action do to be lawful? Test against a Takings.
All land use and zoning regulations must advance a legitimate public interest.
village of euclid v ambler realty -- 1926
The six-to-three decision in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. legitimized zoning as a way of controlling land uses.
What does the term "euclidean zoning" refer to?
The act of segragating land uses from one another in order to ensure that incompatible uses do not locate in close proximity to one another. Upheld in the 1926 Landmark Planning Law Case Village of Euclid v Ambler Realty.
What are the 3 tests of a Taking Case
1) Essential Nexus 2) Rough Proportionality 3) Physical Invasion
What 2 conditions are necessary for special exceptions, conditional use, or special use laws to be lawful?
1) Enactment of the law (must be rational) 2) Application of law (must be fairly applied through established criteria in ordinances)
What are the 2 elements of due process
1) Procedural (the way in which a law operates) 2) Substantive (what is restictions are imposed in the law)
What 2 Constitutional Amendments address due process issues
1) Fifth Amemendment & 2) 14th Amendment (Specifically addresses States)
What are the 2 legal tests for eminiment domain?
A community must prove that 1) Public Purpose 2) Necessity
What 2 amendments deal with eminent domain
1) 5th Amendment (taking without compensation 2) Fourteenth (comdementation without due process)
Explain Eminent Domain & what historical law it orginates from
Eminent domain is the fundamental soverign power to take private property for public use that originates from the Magna Carta
What Landmark Case established the right to zone or redevelop land for aesthetic / master planning purposes?
Berman v Parker 1954
What are the 2 types of nuisance ordinances? What do they involved
1) Private Nuisance (Property owners right to uses that promote enjoyment of their land) 2) Public Nuisance (Common right to health, safety, morals,and comfort)
What are the 3 tests for evaluating variances?
1) Enactments (rational) 2) Application (unnecessary hardship & practical dificulties) 3) Hardship creation (self imposed or external)
Lincoln Trust Co v Williams Building Corp -- 1920
Upheld New York's zoning legislation
Dolan v City of Tigard, 1994
Landmark Case that established test of essential nexus & rough proportionality
According tot he Constitution AnalysisTree What are the 11 Constiution Principles land use legistation may be analyzed by?
1) Delegation of Power, 2) Void for Vagueness, 3) Procedural Due Process, 4) Substantive Due Process, 5) Equal Protection, 6) Just Compensation, 7) Ripeness, 8) Freedom of Speech, 9) Freedom of Religion, 10) Establishment Claus, 11) Free Exercise Clause
What are the primary tests used to analyze "Discretionary Planning"
1) Delegation of Power, 2) Procedural Due Process, 3) Void for Vagueness, 4) Substantive Due Process & 5) Equal Protection
What are the primary tests used to analyze "Special Exceptions or Conditional Use Permits"
1) Delegation of Power, 2) Substantive Due Process, 3) Equal Protection, & 4) Just Compensation (takings)
What are the primary used to analyze "Aesthetic Regulations"
1) Delegation of Power, Procedural Due Process, 3) Substantive Due Process, 4) Equal Protection, 5) Just Compensation
What are the primary tests used to analyze "Rezoning (Negotiated) Approvals"
1) Delegation of Power, 2) Procedural Due Process, 3) Substantive Due Process, 4) Equal Protection
What are the primary tests used to analyze "Prohibition of Adult Uses"
1) Void for Vagueness, 2) Equal Protection, 3) Freedom of Speech, 4) Substantive Due Process
What are the primary tests used to analyze "Prohibition of Places of Worship"
1) Substantive Due Process, 2) Freedom of Religion, 3) Equal Protection
What are the primary tests used to analyze "Prohibition of Group Homes"
Equal Protection
What are the primary tests used to analyze "Downzoning"
1) Procedural Due Proces, 2) Equal Protection, 3) Substantive Due Process, & 4) Just Compensation (takings)
What are the primary tests used to analyze "Parcel Rezoning"
1) Procedural Due Process, 2) Equal Protection, 3) Substantive Due Process, 4) Just Compensation (takings)
Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon
1922 - Takings Case - Restrictions on Use - Justice Holmes wrote in opinion "The general rule...is, that while property maybe regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking"
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.
1926 - Takings - Restrictions on Use -This case upheld zoning as constitutional under the United States Constitution, as being within the police power of the state. If zoning classifications were reasonable, then they would be upheld
Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City
1978 - Takings - Restriction on Use - Upheld that the restrictions imposed (by the Landmarks Law) are substantially related to the general welfare and not only permit reasonable use but also afford appellants opportunities to further enhance the property.
Agins v. City of Tiburon
1979 - Takings - Restriction on Use - Two prong test - 1 "does not substantially advance legitimate state interests" or 2 "denies an owner economically viable use of his land"
Keystone Bituminous Coal Assn. v. DeBenedictis
1987 - Takings - Affirmed Agins Test 1 - Stated that some states interest are more "legitimate than others" The more defensible the states interest the more likely it will be upheld.
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission
1987 - Takings - Expanded Agins Test 1 required a Nexus between the taking and the state's interest.-
Dolan v. City of Tigard
1994 - Takings - Expanded Agins Test 1 - "required a reasonable relationship" between the conditions to be imposed on a permit and the development's impact. "rough proportionality"
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
1992 - Takings - Expanded Agins test 2 - found a takings when the owner was called upon to sacrifice all economically beneficial uses in the name of the common good.
Munn v. Illinois
1877 - A landmark decision that paved the way for future governmental intervention in private development.
Welch v. Swasey
1909 - The first clear-cut nationwide authority for communities to regulate development of private property through limitation of building heights, and to vary these heights by zone.
Eubank v. City of Richmond
1912 - Setback legislation declared constitutional.
Hadacheck v. Sebastian
1915 - Provided that the restriction of future profitable uses was not a taking of property without just compensation.
Town of Windsor v. Whitney
1920 - Made land subdivision regulations possible by holding that dedication of streets as a prerequisite to platting was possible.
Second Prong of the Agins Test
An owner may not be denied economically valuable use of his or her land.
First Prong of the Agins Test
Regulations must substantially advance a legitimate state (governmental) interest.
Nexus
The condition has a required degree of connection.
Metromedia v. City of San Diego
1981 - Ordinances that placed tighter restrictions on non-commercial signs than commercial signs violate the 1st Amendment.
Young. v. American Mini Theaters
1976 - Communities can zone locations of adult entertainment establishments without violating the 1st Amendment.
Renton v. Playtime Theaters
1986 - Upheld separation or concentration requirements for adult uses where a substantial government interest exists.
Procedural Due Process
An assurance that all parties to the proceeding are treated fairly and equally.
Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon
1922 - Takings Case - Restrictions on Use - Justice Holmes wrote in opinion "The general rule...is, that while property maybe regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking"
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.
1926 - Takings - Restrictions on Use -This case upheld zoning as constitutional under the United States Constitution, as being within the police power of the state. If zoning classifications were reasonable, then they would be upheld
Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City
1978 - Takings - Restriction on Use - Upheld that the restrictions imposed (by the Landmarks Law) are substantially related to the general welfare and not only permit reasonable use but also afford appellants opportunities to further enhance the property.
Agins v. City of Tiburon
1979 - Takings - Restriction on Use - Two prong test - 1 "does not substantially advance legitimate state interests" or 2 "denies an owner economically viable use of his land"
Keystone Bituminous Coal Assn. v. DeBenedictis
1987 - Takings - Affirmed Agins Test 1 - Stated that some states interest are more "legitimate than others" The more defensible the states interest the more likely it will be upheld.
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission
1987 - Takings - Expanded Agins Test 1 required a Nexus between the taking and the state's interest.-
Dolan v. City of Tigard
1994 - Takings - Expanded Agins Test 1 - "required a reasonable relationship" between the conditions to be imposed on a permit and the development's impact. "rough proportionality"
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
1992 - Takings - Expanded Agins test 2 - found a takings when the owner was called upon to sacrifice all economically beneficial uses in the name of the common good.
Munn v. Illinois
1877 - A landmark decision that paved the way for future governmental intervention in private development.
Welch v. Swasey
1909 - The first clear-cut nationwide authority for communities to regulate development of private property through limitation of building heights, and to vary these heights by zone.
Eubank v. City of Richmond
1912 - Setback legislation declared constitutional.
Hadacheck v. Sebastian
1915 - Provided that the restriction of future profitable uses was not a taking of property without just compensation.
Town of Windsor v. Whitney
1920 - Made land subdivision regulations possible by holding that dedication of streets as a prerequisite to platting was possible.
Second Prong of the Agins Test
An owner may not be denied economically valuable use of his or her land.
First Prong of the Agins Test
Regulations must substantially advance a legitimate state (governmental) interest.
Nexus
The condition has a required degree of connection.
Metromedia v. City of San Diego
1981 - Ordinances that placed tighter restrictions on non-commercial signs than commercial signs violate the 1st Amendment.
Young. v. American Mini Theaters
1976 - Communities can zone locations of adult entertainment establishments without violating the 1st Amendment.
Renton v. Playtime Theaters
1986 - Upheld separation or concentration requirements for adult uses where a substantial government interest exists.
Procedural Due Process
An assurance that all parties to the proceeding are treated fairly and equally.
Substantive Due Process
Payment by government of just compensation to property owners when property is condemned or dimished by government action.
Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas
1974 - Upheld power to prohibit more than two unrelated individuals from residing together as a family.
S. Burlington County NAACP v. Mount Laurel
1972 - Held that communties in growing areas in the way of urban expansion must take their fair share of the region's growth.
Construction Industry Assoc. or Sonoma County v. Petaluma
Communities can restrict the number of building permits granted each year if reasonable.
Golden v. Ramapo
Upheld conditional development on the provision of services.
Berman v. Parker
Upheld redevelopment programs that took property in eminent domian and resold the property to private developers for redevelopment.
Moore v. East Cleveland
Cities cannot define family so that the definition prevents closely related individuals from living with each other.
Associated Home Builders v. City of Livermore
1976 - Allowed for time phasing in future residential growth until performance conditions were met, including schools, sewers, water, and fire protection.
1st English Evangical Luthern Church v. County of Los Angeles
Court rejected concept that sole remedy for taking is payment of full value of property. City could either buy property outright or revoke ordinance and pay church for losses at time of trial.
Rivers and Harbors Act
1899 - Prohibited the construction of any bridge, dam, dike, or causeway over any navigable waterway without Congressional Approval. Also required Congressional approval for all wharfs, piers, or jetties, and the excavation or fill of navigable waters.
Water Pollutant Control Act
1948 allowed the Surgeon General working w/ other governmental entities, to prepare a comprehensive program to eliminate/reduce the pollution of interstate waters and tributaries and improving the sanitary conditions of surface and underground waters.
Water Quality Act
1965 - Established the Water Pollution Control Administration within the Department of the Interior. This was the first time water quality was treated as an environmental concern rather than a public health concern.
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
Adresses: probable impact of proposed action- adverse environ effects that cannot be avoided- alternatives to proposed action-relationship btwn shortterm use man's environ & maint & enhancement of longterm productivity- irreversible & irretrievable commit
Federal Water Pollutant Control Act 1972
Requires states to control water pollution
Clean Water Act 1977
Amend to Fed Water Pollutant Control Act of 1972. Must have permit if discharge pollutants into body of water, amt of discharge regulated by ambient and effuent water quality stds. Excl ship sewage.
Clean Air (1990)
Federal government sets ambient air quality standards and states devise methods to meet the standards.
Clean Air Act
Air Quality Control Regions (AQCR) are airsheds of our communities
Clean Air Act
PSD stds dictate total ambient & effluent stds & new air pollutions not allowed unless reduce pollutants > than pollutants contributed by new source.
Ambient Standards
Standards for air & water quality relatiing to quality of receiving environ. Baseline for gauging improvements.
First Earth Day
April 22, 1970
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Established in 1927, to build and operate the Colorado River Aqueduct. Aqueduct built between 1933 and 1941 and ran a water pipeline to Los Angeles.
Rachel Carson
Author of Silent Spring, published in 1962. Examined the dangers of chemical pesticides, such as DDT, on plants, animals, and humans. Major influential in the way people think about the environment.
Effluent Standards
Set restrictions on the discharge of pollutants into the environment. The EPA has effluent guidelines for more than 50 categories.
Point Source Pollution
Discharged directly from a specific site, such as a sewage treatment plant or an industrial pipe.
Non-point Source Pollution
Contaminated runoff from many sources.
Potable Water
Safe to drink.
Aquifer
One or more strata of rock or sediment that is saturated and sufficiently permeable to yield economically significant quantities of water to wells or springs.
Estuary
An area where fresh water meets salt water.
Lagoon
A shallow body of water that is located alongside a coast.
Marsh
A type of freshwater, brackish water or saltwater wetland found along rivers, ponds, lakes, and coasts. It does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation.
Reservoir
A pond, lake, tank, or basin that can be used for the storage and control of water, and can be either natural or man-made.
Surface Water
Includes rivers, lakes, oceans, ocean-like water bodies, and coastal tidal waters.
Swamp
A freshwater wetland that has spongy, muddy land and a lot of water.
Watershed
A region drained by, or contributing water to, a surface water body.
Wetlands
Include swamps, marshes, bogs, and other similar areas. They are areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetland
Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD)
Relates to air quality and requires that a project will not increase emissions above a specified increment.
Endangered Species Act
1973 - Provided protection of animal and plant species that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designate as threatened or endangered. Act was later amended in 1988.
Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA)
1978 - Promoted alternative energy sources, energy efficiency, and reduced dependence on foreign oil. It also created a market for non-utility power producers and requires competition in the utility industry.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
1980 - Created a $1.6 billion Superfund to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites and requires major industries to report annual releases of toxic wastes into the air, water, or ground. "Superfund Sites"
Brownfields
Land previously used for industrial purposes, or certain commercial uses, and that may be contaminated by low concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution and has the potential to be reused once it is cleaned up.
Greyfield
Economically obsolete, outdated, failing, moribund and/or underutilized real estate assets or land. Typically do not require remediation in order to unlock value to an investor.
EPA's Environmental Indicators Initiative
Numerical values from actual measurements of a pressure, state or ambient condition, exposure, human health, ecological condition over a specified geographic domain, whose trends over time represent/draw attention to underlying trends in the environment.
EPA's Environmental Indicators Initiative
Draft 2003 - Multiyear effort to identify credible indicators to answer key questions pertaining to the environment & human health and to understand/improve what is know about current state of the environment & identify where additional info is needed.
Biomass energy
Uses organic material which is burned to create energy.
Methane
Is a naturally occurring byproduct of decaying plant and animal material. Gas is burned to produce electricity.
Hydroelectric power
typically associated with large dams. It uses falling water to produce power, which is moved through a turbine, causing it to spin. The spinning turbine is coupled with a generator, which produces energy.
Solar Energy
uses photovoltaic panels to convert sunlight directly into electricity. The panels can be added together to create large systems.
Wind power
Uses tall turbines (100 feet plus) to convert wind to electrical power. Multipple turbines built close together, and they can be found in coastal, mountain, or other regions with a constant wind supply.
Insulation
Allows for more efficient heating of a building.
R-value
Ratings for insulationindicates the resistance to heat flow. The higher the number, the greater the insulating effectiveness.
LEED
Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), provides a list of standards for environmentally sustainable construction.
Greenfield
A piece of undeveloped land, either currently used for agriculture or just left to nature.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
1980 - Identifies potentially responsible parties (PRPs) for environmental contamination. Setup Federal ¬タワSuperfund¬タン to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites.
R-20
Minimum R-value recommended for home insulation?
Lowering a thermostat by 1 degree Fahrenheit can reduce a heating bill by what percent?
Up to 3 percent
Tennessee Valley Authority
Created in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in a region particularly hard hit by the Great Depression. Served as a large-scale regional planning program.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
The system for granting and regulating discharge permits. Regulates both point and non-point sources that discharge pollutants into waters of the U.S.
Secondary Treatment
A biological process to remove dissolved organic matter from wastewater. Sewage microorganisms are cultivated and added to the wastewater. The microorganisms absorb organic matter from sewage as their food supply.
Effluent
The discharge of pollutants into the environment in an untreated, partially treated, or completely treated state.
Mass Wasting
The downslope movement of earth materials due to the force of gravity.

Alfred Bettman

The "Father of Zoning". Helped shape Standard City Enabling Act 1928. However, Edward Bassett is also known as the Father of Zoning.

Alfred Bettman

Cincinnati Lawyer. Played a key role in Cincinnati Plan (1925), Euclid v. Amber (1926)ᅡᅠ

Daniel Hudson Burnham

Father of city planning in US. Among city planners is renowned for the influential 1909 "Plan for Chicago". Famous for his quote, "Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood".

Daniel Hudson Burnham

His "White City" at the Columbian Expo inspired the "City Beautiful Movement", and his Chicago Plan (1909) gave birth to modern city planning.

Paul Davidoff

Founded the Suburban Action Institute in 1969, whose members challenged exclusionary zoning in the courts, winning in the Mt. Laurel case. Developed the concept of the "advocacy planner".

Patrick Geddes
Author of the "Cities in Evolution". Considered the "father" of regional planning.
Ebenezer Howard
Published "Tomorrow, A Peaceful Path to Real Reform" in 1898, starting the Garden City Movement. The book was reissued in 1902 as "Garden Cities of Tomorrow"
Jane Jacobs
Author of 1961 book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities", forced its readers to rethink urban renewal and other contemporary tools of city building.
T.J. Kent Jr.
San Francisco - served as the coordinator for housing, planning, and development. Wrote "The Urban General Plan".
Pierre Charles L'Enfant

Plan for Washington DC - made use of grid pattern, axials, and circles.

Kevin Lynch
Author of "Image of the City". Focused on how users perceive and organize spatial information as they navigate through cities. Coined the words "imageability" and "wayfinding".
Ian McHarg
Wrote "Design with Nature". Father of Modern Ecology/Environmental Movement. Proposed the use of transfer of development rights (TDR) to preserve landscape. Renowned for his advocacy of ecological planning and for the layered mapping techniques.
Lewis Mumford
Outspoken critic of the Regional Plan of NY 1929. Prolific author - "The Culture of Cities" (1938)- inspired city and regional planning efforts.
Fredrick Law Olmsted, Sr.
Co-designer of Forest Hills and Riverside, IL. Site planner for the 1893 Columbian Exposition
Fredrick Law Olmsted, Jr.

Designer of Forest Hills Gardens and Palos Verdes Estates. Played important role in shaping Standard City Enabling Act 1928

Clarence Arthur Perry
Promoter of the neighborhood unit concept. Author of "Housing for a Mechanic Age, Regional Survey of New York and Environs" (1929)
Pullman, George

His model company town, he tried to combine the industrialist's need for efficiency with the worker's need for decent housing

Jacob Riis
Used photography and writing to reveal the terrible conditions of the urban poor in "How The Other Half Lives" (1890) and "Children of the Poor" (1892). Led to the first federal investigation of slums and to changes in NYC's housing laws
Charlotte Rumbold
Influential in citizen planning. Helped found the Ohio Planning Conference, the 1st statewide citizen based group (1919). Won legislative support for planning enabling laws, zoning and subdivision regs, and public housing (1920-30's)
Mary K. Simkhovitch
Organized one of the nation's first settlement houses, Greenwich House in New York. Described in her autobiography, "Neighborhood: My Story of Greenwich House
Clarence S. Stein
Co-designer of Radburn, NJ. Member of Regional Plan Association of America (RPAA)
Catherine Bauer
Wrote "Modern Housing". She attributed the lack of low cost housing to the liberal intellectuals, trade unions, and planners. Considered a key housing reformer of the 20th Century
Clarence Perry
Father of the Neighborhood Unit Concept, wrote "Housing for the Mechanic Age" (1939) and "Regional Survey of New York and its Environs" (1929).
Frank Lloyd Wright

Wrote "Broadacre City - A New Community Plan" (1935)

Ebenezer Howard
Wrote "Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform" (1898)
Ian McHargᅡᅠ
Wrote "Design with Nature" 1971 ᅡᅠ
Jacob Riis

Wrote "How the Other Half Lives" (1890) and "Children of the Poor" (1892)

Jacobs, Jane
Wrote "The Death and Life of a Great American City" (1961)
Kevin Lynch
Image of the City (1960), summarizes a 5-year study on how people perceive their cities- What Time is This Place (1972), examining how time may be passed in cities and urban conservation- and Up in Cities (1977), explores how environments affect children
Lewis Mumford
Wrote "The Culture of Cities" (1938), The Condition of Man (1944), and The Conduct of Life (1951)
Patrick Geddes
Wrote "Cities in Evolution" (1915) Focus on place - Work - Folk
Sherry Arnstein
Wrote "Ladder of Citizen Participation"
Peter Calthorpe
Developed the design feature "Transit Oriented Developments" (TOD's)
Saul Alinksy
Father of Neighborhood Organizing Movement, 1940's Back of the Yards (Chicago) from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Rules for Radicals 1971. Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)1940
Saul Alinksy ᅡᅠ
The organization uses boycotts to initiate change, a paid organizer is used to organize people and an invitation is given to members of a community to participate in the organization.
Robert Moses
Known as "Great Expediter" leading city planner in 1920's replacing Burnham. "If the ends don't justify the means, than what the hell does." Portland, OR program of public improve. NY region over 400 miles of parkways-Triborough Bridge, Jones Beach
Thomas Adams
Secretary of the Garden City Association and the 1st manager of Letchworth, England
Rachel Carson
Wrote Silent Spring, focused on the negative effects of pesticides on the environment
Rexford Tugwell
Head of the Resettlement Administration under FDR - began work on the greenbelt communities
Joel Garreau
Wrote Edge City - Life on the New Frontier, 1991, about the end of central city growth, population and economic activity shifting to suburbs, and the urban secession and other autonomy struggles that arise
Catherine Bauer
Founder of American housing policy, wrote Modern Housing (1934) and was influential in the passage of the Housing Act of 1937
John Muir
one of the earliest modern environmental preservationists Founded the Sierra Club.
Richard Babcock
Author of "The Zoning Game" (1966) observations on American zoning practice.
William Whyte
Knonw for "Street Life Project" (1969) - Authored several texts about urban planning and design and human behavior in various urban spaces.
Saul Alinsky
Was associated with advocacy planning.
Harland Bartholomew
1916 - First full time city planner in the US, wrote the comprehensive plan for St. Louis, & owned a private consulting firm.
Alfred Bateman
First president of the American Society of Planning Officals
Charles Lindbolm
Known for theory of incrementalism in policy and decsion making as described in his work the "The Science of Muddling Through" - 1959
Norman Krumholz
Associated with the development of equity planning theory. Was head of Cleveland¬タルs city planning from 1969 -1979.
Herbert Simon

Introduced the concept of Satisficing

John Friedmann
Research focus is on processes of urbanization, knonw for many publications including "Planning in the public domain : from knowledge to action" (1987)
Amitai Etzioni
Modern planning theorist - famous for work on socioeconomics and communitarianism believes individual rights and aspirations should be protected but that they should be inserted into a sense of the community
George Haussmann
Responsible for the 19th century Plan of Paris
Peter Drucker
Associated with Management by Objectives (MBO) - a process of agreeing upon objectives within an organization so that management and employees buy in to the objectives and understand what they are.
John Logan & Harvey Molotch
Commonly associated with the term "Growth Machine"
Ernest Burgess
Urban sociologist - research, provided the foundation for The Chicago School. In "The City" described the city into the concentric zones (Concentric ring model), central business district, transitional, working class, residential, and commuter/suburban
Homer Hoyt
Known for the "Sector Model", that modified the concentric zone model of city development. Suggested that various groups expand outward from the city center along railroads, highways, and other transportation arteries.
Louis Wirth
Major contribution to social theory of urban space was a classic essay "Urbanism as a Way of Life" interests included city life, minority group behaviour and mass media and he is recognised as one of the leading urban sociologists.

Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann

A French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris, commissioned by Napolᅢᄅon,spanning from 1852 to 1870. The project encompassed all aspects of urban planning

Homer Hoyt
Known for the "Sector Model" aka Theory of Axial Development (1939)
Harris and Ullman
Proposed Multi-Nuclei Model in 1945 - progressive integration of a number of separate nuclei. Nodes become specialized by attributes: accessibility, compatibility, incompatibility and sustainability.

Earnest Burgess

Concentric zone model with CBD in center and residential in outer zones. Pattern of ¬タワInvasion and Succession¬タン would change pattern with inner zones pushing outer zones further out (1920s).
Edward J. Kaiser
Focus on improving the quality of local land use plans and and developing land use planning strategies for hazard mitigation and environmental protection. Famous book "Urban Land Use Planning" 5th ed.
Randall Arendt
In Rural by Design (1994) advocates creative, practical land-use planning techniques to preserve open space and community character. He shows how developments all across America have used these techniques successfully.
James Kunstler
New Urbanist "The Geography of Nowhere" " The City in Mind" Anti Modernism, Strip Malls, & Sprawl
Rooted in agriculture most humanly valuable. T. Jefferson & Hector St John de Crevecoeur
Agrarian (1800s)
total unrestricted competition in society ultimately benefits & individual hardships from competition essential to ultimate good of state. Exploit the poor...
Laissez Faire (1800s)
Gov't involvement in public health & safety of worker. max standards, min hsg standards, light & air provisions.
Public Health (1800s)
Beauty of public works projects to attract wealthy, pleasant life of poor, accessible to all men, create unifying civic pride.
City Beautiful (1900-1920s)
Create broad, tree lined aves, bring light, air, nature to the slum.
City Beautiful (1900-1920s)
Burnham, Lomsted, McKim, St Gaudens, Gottlieb- St. Louis Worlds Fair, Carnegie Libraries.
City Beautiful (1900-1920s)
Big business lost interest, awarenesss of corruption-movement declined but emphasis of physical site planning was internalized in planning movements regulating development of suburbs.
City Beautiful (1900-1920s)
Began with Columbian Expo at Chicago worlds fair in 1893, White City, 1st US example of great group of bldgs. designed in relation to each other and to surrounding open space.
City Beautiful (1900-1920s)
Anti-urban, agarian, predicated on: sacredness of nature, inherent immorality of the city, & return to pre-industrial village.
Garden City ((1920s in US)
Ebenezer Howard "Tommorrow Peaceful Path to Reform 1898)
Garden City ((1920s in US)
Lethchworth, England 1903-20, Welwyn England 1919-34, Radburn New Jersey 1928
Garden City ((1920s in US)
Influenced by Howard's cities & Ray Unwin's "Hampstead Gardens" (1907). 1st compr suburban neighborhood design, planning & physical design of residential with spatial open, lush green, parks, shopping, schools.
Garden City (1920s in US)
"City of Motor Age", superblocks & cul-de-sacs, public pedestrian ways between properties to natural amenities (parks,schools), utilize underpass to cross busy sts.
Garden City:Radburn, NJ 1928
Not really "Garden City" DID NOT HAVE planned greenbelt, not self-contained,not single tax rent system
Garden City:Radburn, NJ 1928
Emergency Relief Act 1935, admin by Rural Resettlement Admin, created for soil conservation, relocate farmers from poor to good soil, owned & operated by fed govt until sold to private during Eisenhower admin in 1950s.
Greenbelt Towns: Greenbelt MD- Greenhills, OH- Greendale, WI (1935-50s)
Never built because RRA stopped by courts -Fed govt couldn't use power of eminent domain that way.
Greenbrook, NJ
Massive land subdivisions and single-family hsg projects with few community facilities & built on model of war hsg projects of 1940s.
New Towns: Levittown, NY & Park Forest, IL (1947-1948)
Major amenities, large open spaces, high quality physical design. 75,000 pop cluster plan in 7 villages (10,000 ea). Satellite cities rather than uncontrolled sprawl. 6,810 acres 22% open space-detached townhomes, apts.
New Towns: Reston, VA (1960s)
Overlapping communities
New Towns: Columbia MD (1960s)
The Plan of Chicago
(1909) First comprehensive plan in US. Proposed Public housing as a proper government function.
The Works of Clarence Stein
Co-designer of Radburn N.J. the first New Town in America 1928
The Cincinnati Plan
(1925) The Ford-Goodrich plan for this city. First officially adopted Plan. Landmark in the 20's because of its scope was far broader than other plans of the period. Legal connection between zoning and plan.
Greenbelt Towns
Visualized as Green-Belt Cities.
Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, MO
(1922) First "auto-oriented suburban shopping center".
Euclid v. Amber, US Supreme Court
(1926) The 1926 US Supreme Court case upholding zoning.
The New York City Zoning Code
(1915) First comprehensive zoning code in the US prepared under the leadership of Edward Bassett.
The Plan of Riverside, IL
(1869) Railroad suburb designed by F.L. Olmsted Sr. and Calvert Vaux.
The San Francisco Zoning Ordinance
(1867) Prevented slaughter houses and hog storage in certain areas, thus laying the foundations for zoning controls elsewhere.
The Plan of Washington DC
(1791) Radial/gridiron plan by Peirre L'Enfant influenced plans across the US.
The Plan of Savannah, GA
(1733) The original ward system, with a central square, was followed in later development. Rare example of early city growth design in America.
Forest Hills Gardens, Long Island, NY
(1911+) In Queens, NY begun in 1908. US's first "garden suburb".
"Radburn" at Fairlawn, NJ
(1928-29) One of the first New Towns, designed by Clarence Stein & Henry Wright ("city in the motor age"). It established the superblock, with center block paths, as a model for residential site planning.
Hawaii's State Land Use Law
(1961) It was the first such statewide regulatory system in the US.
The Plan of Vieux Carre, New Orleans
(1721) In 1925, the neighborhood was protected by the nations's first historic preservation ordinance.
The Town of Norris, TN
(1933) The TVA's first new town. It was seen as a demonstration of the greenbelt town idea.
Yellowstone National Park
(1872) First National Park in the US.
Central Park, New York City
(1857) Designed by F.L. Olmstead Sr. and Calvert Vaux. Became the model for large urban parks throughout the US.
City Beautiful Movement
Re-create cities as works of art, grandeur, strong axis, monuments, parks.
Greenbelt Towns
Begun in 1935 with the New Deal Program "Rural Resettlement Administration" RPA under USDA.
Greenbelt, MD- Greenhills, OH- Greendale, WI- & Greenbrook, NJ
Greenbelt towns built and operated by the Federal Government.
Kalamazoo Mall, MI
1956 - Nations first downtown pedestrian mall.
Northland Center, Michigan, 1954
The fiirst major regional shopping center to open in the United States.
Was a component of the New Town of Columbia, Maryland.
Neighborhood Clusters
Was a component of the New Town of Columbia, Maryland.
Prior land assembly.
Characterized by Local Management & self-government without the need from intervention from the state.
Garden City Movement
Planning should be designed for socioeconomic stratums just above the poor.
Garden City Movement
What was the " Standard State Zoning & Enabling Act"? Year? Who prompted its development?
The Standard State Zoning Enabling Act (SZEA) established states' right to plan through zoning of land uses. Secretary of State Herber Hoover led its development in 1924.
What were some of the major provisions of the SZEA?
1) grant of zoning power, 2) land uses could be divided into districts, 3) required statement of purpose for the zoning regulations, 4) required procedures for creating & amending codes, 5) required a zoning commission be created as a planning advisor
What ws the Standard City Planning Enabling Act? Year? Who led its development?
The SCPEA was a 1928 Federal legislation that promoted city master or comprehensive planning. Effort led by Sec of State Herbert Hoover.
What the primary priciples of the SCPEA?
1) organization & power of a planning commission to develop a master plan, 2) plan for the physical development, 3) master street plan, 4) approval of public improvements, 5) control private subdivision of land, 6) develop a rpc & regional plan.
Where was the first rural zoning established? When?
Wisconsin in 1929
When was Sunnyside Garden built? Designers? Builders? Location? Significance?
Sunnyside Gardens was the first PLANNED "Garden City" in the US. Located in Queen, NY it was designed by Clarence Stein & Henry Wright and built by the City Housing Corp under the mangement of Alexander Bing.
When was Radburn, NJ built? Builders? Significance?
Radburn, NJ was the first CONSTRUCTED "Garden City" in the US. It was designed by Clarence Stein & Henry Wright in 1928.
What Federal Department was responsible for the SZEA & SCPEA? Who led it? What years?
Te SZEA & SCPEA were established by US Department of Commerce which was led by Sec of State Herbert Hoover. The SZEA was completed in 1924 & SCPEA was completed in 1928.
What was the first comprehensive plan to be adopted in the US? When?
The 1925 Cincinnatti Plan.
Describe the "Neighborhood Unit Principle". Who developed it? What Year?
The neighborhood is the core of the community and all people should be able to acess all parts of the community from the neighborhood. Developed by Clarence Perry in 1929.
Explain what the "Concentric Zone Model" of city planning.
The Concentric Zone Model is a planning theory which states that a city is developed in rings. Core is the business district- the 1st circle is a low-income, high crime residential- 2nd is working class- 3rd is middle class, 4th is upper class.
What book is about the "Concentric Zone Model" of city planning? Authors? Year? What is another name for this model?
"The City" written by Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, & Roderick McKenzie in 1925. Because of its circles around the core design it is also known as the "Bull's Eye" model
Where was the first county wide planning/ regional plan in the US?
Los Angeles County in 1922.
What was the predecessor to JAPA? When was it published? What organization?
"City Planning" by the American City Planning Institute in 1925.
Where was the first regional planning commission formed? Year?
Los Angeles County in 1922
What is the significance of the "Regional Plan for New York and Environs"? Author? Year?
It was the first plan focused on "Suburban Development" by planning for highway construction & suburban recreational facilities. Developed by Clarence Stein & Lewis Mumford from 1922- 1929.
Where was the first historic commission established? Year? Name?
New Orleans established "Vieux Carre Commission" in 1921.
What is the significance of Mariemont, OH? Year? Designers?
Designed by John Nolen, Mariemont,OH's design of short blocks, mixture of rental and owner-occupied housing were precurssors to the new urbanist movement. It was built in 1923.
What is the planning significance of the stock market crash?
The proverty ensued prompted people to think about planning on a national level in order to address the needs of all.
What is the Federal Roads Act?
Federal Roads Act of 1920 called for the widening of streets which led to land use zoning & development of new roads.
When & where was the 1st National Convention of Planning
1909 in Washington, DC
What was the Inland Waterway Commission? Founder? Year?
Federal commission to encourage multipurpose planning in waterway development: Navigation power, irragation, flood control, water supply. Pres Roosevelt in 1907.
What did the "White City" bring about? What is its significance?
The Chicago Plan of 1909. It was the first long range comprehensive plan for the orderly development of an American City.
What was the "Antiquities Act of 1906"
The 1st law to institute federal protection for preserving archealogical sites.
What was the "Public Lands Commission"? Who appointed it? Year?
In 1903, the Public Lands Commission was appointed by Pres Theodore Roosevelt to propose rules for the orderly development & managment of land.
When was the original Garden City constructed? Where?
Letchworth, England, 1903
What is significant about the NY State Tenement House Law? Who led its passage? Year?
It established the basis for the revision of NYV codes that outlawed tenements such as the "dumbell" style. Lawerence Veeler in 1901
What was the "NY Committee on Congestion of Population"? Who led it? Year?
A committee established in NY to decentralize the population. Founded in 1907 by Benjamin Marsh.
What was the country's first local civil center plan? Year? Who developed it?
In 1903 Daniel Burnham, John Carrere, and Arnold Brunner developed the first local civic center plan in Cleveland.
Where was the first town planning board created? Year?
Harford, Ct in 1907
What was the first major city to apply the City Beautiful Principles? Year? Developer?
San Francisco in 1906. The plans were developed by Daniel Burnham.
When was "Garden Cities of To-morrow" Published? Author?
1902 by Ebenezer Howard
What was the "US Reclamation Act"
A 1902 federal legislation which allowed the proceeds of public land sales to be used to build water storage and irragation systems.
When was the National Park Service Established? What was its charge?
The NPS was established in 1916 to conserve and preserve resources of special value.
What major transportation resource was completed in 1914? Why is it significant?
The Panama Canal created a shipping channel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
When was the "US Housing Corp & Emergency Fleet Corp" established? What did it do?
Established in 1918 the US Housing Corp & Emergency Fleet Corp helped build housing for WWI workers. It influenced early public housing efforts.
What was the first major textbook on city planning? When was it written?
"Carrying out the City Plan" written by Flavel Shurtleff" in 1914
What is the importance of the "Principle of Scientific Management"? Who wrote it? When?
It spearheaded the effeciency movement in city government. It was written by Frederick Winslow Taylor in 1911.
What was the predecessor to the American Institute of Planners? Year was it established? 1st President?
American City Planning Institute established in 1917 led by Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr.
What is the significance of the American City Planning Institute?
It was the first professional organization of planners led by Frederick Law Olmstead,Jr..
Who passes the nation's 1st comprehensive zoning law? When? Who led the effort?
NYC Board of Estimates in 1916 under the leadership of George McAneny & Edward Basset.
When was the first enabling legislation created? Where?
1909 in Wisconsin
What was the first city to use land use zoning to guide development? Year
Los Angeles in 1909
What was the first city to hire a full time employee for the planning commission? Who did they hire? Year?
Newark, NJ hired Harland Bartholomew in 1914
What city adoped the first comprehensive zoning code? Who wrote it? Year?
New York City adopted the first comprehensive zoning code in 1916. It was written by Edward Bassett.
What was one of the pioneering books about regional planning? Year?
"Cities in Evolution" by the Father of Regional Planning, Patrick Geddess, written in 1915.
What early book about planning was adopted for grade school classrooms? Year?
"Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago" written by Water Moody in 1914.
What early planning book was written by Nelson Lewis? Year?
"Planning of a Modern City" in 1916