Aicp Planning Prep Quiz #2

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They are urban clusters and urbanized areas.

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For the Census 2000, there are two types of urban areas. What are they?

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Urban Cluster (UC)

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A densely settled territory that has at least 2,500 people but less than 50,000 and was new for Census 2000.

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Urbanized Area (UA)

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An area consisting of a central place and adjacent territory with a general population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile of land area. This land area has a minimum residential population of at least 50,000 people.

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Industrial

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What type of building has a peak parking space factor of 0.67 - 3.5 parking spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. of GLA.

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Catherine Bauer Wurster

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a leading advocate for well-designed, low-income housing from the 1930s until her death in 1964. Her 1934 book, Modern Housing, was one of the most influential of the time.

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Author of Modern Housing (1934), an influential book on the need for well-designed, low-income housing.

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Catherine Bauer Wurster

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20 to 25 percent

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According to Gerald Stocks and Ron Van Der Meid in "Dimensions of Parking" in the chapter of Surface Lot Design, angles of 60-65 degrees can be reconfigured to fit what percent increase in vehicles at an angle of 75-90 degrees.

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1) commemorated the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the new world
2) jump started the urban planning profession
3) ran for six months and attracted 27,539,000 visitors--almost half of the total number of people then living in the United States

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The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago....

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I-35 Corridor (the NAFTA corridor)

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What is the name of the only central interstate linking the United States, Canada, and Mexico?

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Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

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A scheduling technique. It graphically depicts the interrelationships of the tasks that make up the project. It is used to help control the cost and time of a project.

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Five main points of this schedule technique : 1) focuses of key aspects of program development. 2) Identifies potential problems 3) facilitates evaluation of programming 4) provides a speedy reporting device 5) improves the quality management of the decision-making.

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PERT - Program Evaluation and Review Technique

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0.5 - 3.0 spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. of GLA

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According to the ITE's "Parking Generation", based on the ranges of generation factors, an office has a peak space factor of.....

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Peter Drucker

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Management by Objective (MBO) was created by which of the following persons in 1954?

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Management by Objectives

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It is a system that encourages mutual collaboration and cooperation in the achievement of organizational purposes. It is a goal and objective setting process between the administrator and his/her employees.

Peter Drucker, 1954

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20%

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Leaks develop in all air ducts over time. Sealing these leaks in ducts can reduce heating costs by up to what percent?

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Normal Distribution

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A probability distribution that is symmetrical around the mean. It is bell shaped and when with a standardized relationship between the mean and variance is called a score.

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Features of Mariemont, Ohio - a 1923 suburb of Cincinnati

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(short blocks, mixture of rental and owner-occupied housing) foreshadow the contemporary New Urbanism movement.

Mary Emery was its founder and benefactor; John Nolen, the planner.

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Mariemont, Ohio

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In 1923, construction began on what planned community, which would foreshadow the New Urbanism movement?

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The Symptomatic Approach

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A means of calculating population utilizes changes in obtainable data that are predictive of population changes as a whole (like building permits).

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Policy Delphi

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Through successive rounds of argument and counter argument the views of the public, special interest groups, staff, and government work towards a consensus.

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Takings Claim

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Which issue was the law case, concerned with?

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Federal Communications Commission v. Florida Power Corporation (1987)

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In this case, the Public utilities challenged a federal statute that authorized the FCC to regulate the rents charged by the utilities to cable television operators for the use of their utility poles. The Court rejected the TAKINGS claim because nothing in the statute required the utilities to act as lessors. Also, the utilities could avoid any occupation of their poles by evicting the cable operators.

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Riparian Rights

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The entitlement of a land owner to certain uses of water on or bordering his property, including the right to prevent diversion or misuse of upstream waters; generally a matter of state law.

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Delphi Method

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What data collection technique comprises a series of questionnaires sent out, to a pre-selected group of experts. These questionnaires are designed to elicit individual responses to the problems and to enable the experts to refine their views as the group’s work progresses?

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Ambient standards

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Relevant for both air and water quality relating to the quality of the receiving environment and are used to judge the overall improvements in the environmental quality.

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Zero-Based Budgeting

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A budgeting approach

- each manager to breaks the budget down into their own decision packages.

- each package contain specifics (what, why, and how much it will cost.)

- decision packages are tied to long-range plan objectives.

- decision packages are then ranked and approved accordingly.

- Each manager has to justify from scratch their budget each year.

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Description and dimensions of a Township Square

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6 miles by 6 miles and therefore contain 36 square miles. Also, each contains 36 sections. Each section is one square mile (640 acres). Section 1 is always in the northeast corner, and Section 16 was reserved for the school so that it would be centrally located.

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36 Square miles

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A township Square is used in described land in the Government Survey method, how big is a township square?

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640 acres

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1 square mile

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1) a densely settled territory that has at least 2,500 people but less than 50,000

2) new for Census 2000

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Which of the following can describe an Urban Cluster according to the US Census?

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Ten Fastest-Growing Metropolitan Areas, 2000 - 2010 (look this up)

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Ten Fastest-Growing Metropolitan Areas, 2000 - 2010

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A) General Services
B) Providing information to the line units
C) Providing services to the line units

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In a public planning agency, a Staff Function deals with which of the following?

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Examples of Line Functions in a public planning agency

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deal primarily with direct services such as police and fire services. It should be noted that Public Planning involves both line and staff functions.

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Green "e"

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What is the voluntary labeling program that began in California to indicate which competitive products are made using "green power"?

(at least 50% renewable)

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Just over 3.5 million (3,537,441)

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How many square miles are in the United States?

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According to the 2000 Census, 79.6/sq. mile

(figure this out for the 2010 census)

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On average, how many people per square mile are living in the United States?

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It had the lowest population gain

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According to the 2000 US Census, what is true about North Dakota?

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1) it catered to an upper class
2) it's beautification and adornment had limited practicality
3) public investment was needed for its parks and boulevards, and this was not always available to cities

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The City Beautiful Movement had some of these as deficiencies...

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Megalopolis, a term coined by Jean Gottman

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An extended urban region that contained several metro areas which appear to form a single agglomeration.

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Jean Gottmann

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Who is credited with coining the expression "megalopolis"?

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Visioning

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It is a projection of what is desired. Different from goal setting because the goals are typically based on what already exists in the community. It does not look at any of the existing opportunities or constraints in the community. Does not require extensive data collection.

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The first one - (1790 census)

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When were demographic questions (i.e. household size) first introduced to the decennial census?

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558,000

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According to the US Census in 1790 there were how many households in the country?

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Overwhelming, most households in 1790 had 7 or more persons (35.8%). While households with 4, 5, or 6 persons were roughly tied at 13-14% apiece. Single person or two-person households were relatively rare (3.7% and 7.8% of the population, respectively).

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According to the US Census in 1790 which household size was most common - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7+?

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1790

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When was the first U.S. Census conducted?

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densest city

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According to a study done in 2001 by USA Today, what is true about LA?

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Los Angeles

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A USA Today 2001 article reported that after ranking the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas according to the percentage of population living at densities over 1,000 per square mile, which city surprisingly ended up being denser than New York, Chicago or San Francisco?

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The disposal of Federal Property by the US Government

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What is the Federal Property Administration Act of 1949 used primarily for?

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Listening to the City

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On July 20, 2002 about 5,000 New Yorkers gathered in Manhattan to participate in a modern town meeting called....

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A zoning approach that regulates the character of the use instead of simply just regulating the use itself

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Performance Zoning can be described as?

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Cumulative (or pyramid) Zoning

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When permitted uses automatically accumulate from one district to each successive one. In this, the single detached residence is the top.

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Exclusive classification zoning (aka strict Euclidean zoning)

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Allows no uses in districts than the uses for which they were created. An example for this is to stop residential from "taking over" another land use like commercial and then protesting when a commercial use is proposed.

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Performance Standards (in zoning)

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establish objective thresholds and maximum limits of the effects or characteristics of a land use (e.g.: allowable amount of noise).

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Performance Zoning

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regulates the character of the use instead of simply just regulating the use itself.

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Overlay zones

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add requirements "on top" of zoning districts.

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Incentive Zoning

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localities can use these to encourage development that exceeds the minimum standards (in exchange for certain development incentives)

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1-3%

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Lowering the thermostat by as little as 1° F typically reduces your heating bill by how much? Most energy experts recommend setting the thermostat to 68° F or less, and several degrees cooler overnight.

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Las Vegas, Nev. - it's population increased by 85.2% between 1990 and 2000 (although this city did not see the largest numeric increase in population)

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Which of the top 50 US cities had the greatest increase in population (as a percentage) from 1990 to 2000?

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Between 1990 and 2000, how much did the population of Las Vegas, Nev. increase?

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This city had population of 478,434 according 2000 census, and a population of 258,295 in the 1990 census. A growth rate of 85.2%. This city moved from #63 on the list of largest US cities to #32.

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The fastest growing of the cities listed in terms of total population is Phoenix which grew by over 330K. Las Vegas increased by 220K. So, while the percentage was greater for Las Vegas (85%) the answer for absolute numeric increase would be Phoenix.

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Which of the top 50 US cities had the greatest increase in population (in absolute numbers) from 1990 to 2000?

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Groundwater

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he supply of freshwater under the earth's surface in an aquifer or soil that forms the natural reservoir for our use.

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Portland, Oregon

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In which city do maintenance trucks save energy by carrying solar panels? These solar panels provide mobile electricity that runs power tools.

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Texas

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Between 1992 and 1997, what State lost the most high quality agriculture land (489,000 acres) to development.

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Gravity Feed System

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For this type of system, the water storage must be at least 70 feet above the point of use, and be insulated from freezing where this may occur.

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regulates the character of the use instead of simply just regulating the use itself

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Performance Zoning - description

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1) linked to the goals of the comp plan
2) the annual Capital budget is the first year of 5-10 year programs (usually)
3) monitoring and evaluating the progress of the capital projects
4) informing the public

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Capital Improvement Programming (CIP) involves which of the following?

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Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (2002)

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What recent case dealt with the issue of a moratorium on development?

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In this 2002 case, the US Supreme Court said that a government should NOT be required to compensate property owners for every development moratorium, regardless of its purpose, duration, or potential impact on property values.

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Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (2002)

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Aaron Wildavsky

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Who is credited with the following quote, "a budget...may be characterized as a series of goals with price tags attached."?