City Planner

Question 1

City Beautiful Movement

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Movement to introduce beauty and monumental grandeur into cities

Question 2

World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893

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Origin of the City Beautiful Movement

Question 3

Daniel Burnham

Answer 3

Founder of the City Beautiful Movement

Question 4

Garden City Movement

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Method of planning self-contained communities are surrounded by “greenbelts”, containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture. Started in 1898

Question 5

Ebenezer Howard

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Founder of the Garden City Movement

Question 6

Multiple Dwelling Law

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Establishes standards for buildings with 3 or more units

Question 7

City street ideal speed limit

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15-25mph

Question 8

Greenbelt Towns

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The resettlement agency relocated struggling families to planned government communities during the Great Depression. The agency stopped after 3 communities

Question 9

Circumferential Transit Line

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Transit line that travels the outskirt of a CBD

Question 10

Incremental Growth

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Growth by same number each year

Question 11

Semi-lotharithmic graph paper

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Each section of the paper is in exponential units

Question 12

Floor-area ratio

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Floor area / Lot area

Question 13

Acre in Square Feet

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43,560

Question 14

Square Mile in Acres

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640

Question 15

Municipal Loan Program

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Provides loans to rehabilitate apartment buildings

Question 16

Radburn, NJ

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Designed to have backyards on the streets, and entrances facing each other.

Question 17

Reston, VA

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Focuses on walkability, nature, and diversity.

Question 18

Railroad Flat

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Home where all rooms connect to one hallway

Question 19

Critical Path Method

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A form of scheduling operations against time periods and resources.

Question 20

Performance Bond

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A bond ensuring a contractor will execute the terms of a contract.

Question 21

Planned Unit Development

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Housing spaced close together to net more open space

Question 22

Superblock

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Very large city block. Benefit is that it improves the separation of vehicular and pedestrian circulation

Question 23

Input-output economic model

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A technique designed for the analysis of national economies and which employs an industry interaction model appearing in the form of a multi-sector or industrial matrix

Question 24

Cohort Survival Model

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Estimates future population based on survival of existing population

Question 25

Official City Map

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Shows right-of-ways and corporate boundaries.

Question 26

EPA Designated Air Pollutants

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Ozone, Particulate, Carbon Monoxide, Lead, Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide

Question 27

Neighborhood-unit Concept

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Arterials on the outside, residences and community centers on the inside

Question 28

New Towns Movement

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English planned communities to alleviate congestion

Question 29

Percolation Test

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Customary test made to determine the ability of a soil to drain off liquids, such as those discharged by a cesspool

Question 30

Mitchell-Lama Housing Law

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Housing program intended for middle-income families.

Question 31

Defensible Space

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Idea that public areas should be placed adjacent to areas of activity.

Question 32

Model Cities Program

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LBJ's planning program focused on poverty

Question 33

Special Revenue Sharing

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Intended to replace money previously distributed to cities for categorical gains

Question 34

Turnkey Housing

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A method of housing construction whereby a private developer finances and constructs the housing to the city's standards and the housing is then purchased by the city

Question 35

Year the first US Housing Act was passed

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1937

Question 36

Distance large street trees should be planted apart

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50-75

Question 37

Broadacre City concept

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Every citizen gets an acre of land

Question 38

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Promoted the Broadacre City Concept

Question 39

High density - Low Coverage principle

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Tall buildings on big lots.

Question 40

Le Corbusier

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Proposed the High density - Low Coverage principle

Question 41

Patrick Geddes

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Strongly believed social structures and spacial forms were related

Question 42

Sir Patrick Abercrombie

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Replanned a number of cities, including post-war London.

Question 43

Sir Raymond Unwin

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Emphasized improvements in working-class housing

Question 44

Clarence Perry

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Created the Neighborhood Unit Concept

Question 45

Cluster Zoning

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Prioritizes Density and Open Space

Question 46

HUD's Operation Breakthrough

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Encouraged innovated prefabricated systems of construction.

Question 47

Slope Formula

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Rise over Run

Question 48

Riparian Rights

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Rights to property owners along water

Question 49

Overimprovement

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Refers to improvement on a land in excess of the need. It is over in the sense that it does not make the best use of the property, or is excessive in comparison with the improvement of similar properties.

Question 50

Capital Project

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Improvement of a City Asset

Question 51

Special Assessment

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Additional Taxes

Question 52

Condemnation

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Eminent Domain

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Plat

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A map or drawing, prepared in accordance with local regulations, showing the divisions of the tract of land and the layout of a proposed subdivision

Question 54

Defined Channel

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Any natural watercourse, even if it is dry.

Question 55

Interstate Commerce law of 1887

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First Federal law to regulate industry

Question 56

Jones V Mayer

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(1968) Congress can regulate the sale of private property to prevent racial discrimination.

Question 57

Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1968

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Prevents real estate sale on the basis of race and sex

Question 58

Stock Cooperative

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Corporation-owned real estate, where an owner owns shares

Question 59

Fair Market Value

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The highest price land would bring if fairly exposed for sale in the open market.

Question 60

Cordon Count

Answer 60

Vehicle and person surveys that provide time series data of traffic flow across a given set of screen-lines.