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AICP Names

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Theory of Productive Expenditures   Georges Haussmann  
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Concentric Ring Theory   Ernest Burgess, 1925  
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Central Place Theory   Walter Christaller, 1933  
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Sector Theory   Homer Hoyt, 1939  
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Multiple Nuclei Theory   Harris and Ullman, 1945  
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Bid Rent Theory   William Alonso, 1960  
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Urban Realms Model   James E Vance Jr. 1960s  
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Growth Machine Theory   Harvey Molotch 1976  
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Elite Members drive development   Logan and Molotch, 1987  
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Patrick Geddes   Regional Planning  
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John Muir   Sierra Club  
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George McAneny   Zoning  
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Benton MacKaye   Appalachian Trail  
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David Lilenthal   Public Power  
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George Norris   TVA  
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Edward Bassett   Zoning  
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Lawrence Veiller   Modern Housing Codes  
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George Perkins Marsh   American Environmentalism  
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Saul Alinsky   Modern Community Organizing  
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Clarence Arthur Perry   The Neighborhood Unit Concept  
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Harland Bartholomew   CIty Planning  
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Ian McHarg   The Environmental Movement  
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Daniel Burnham   City Planning  
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Town Planning in Practice   Sir Richard Unwin, 1909  
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An Introduction to City Planning   Benjamin Marsh, 1909  
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Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago   Walter D. Moody, 1912  
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Carrying Out the City Plan   Flavel Shurtleff, Frederick L. Olmsted Sr, 1914  
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Cities in Evolution   Patrick Geddes, 1915  
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Neighborhood Unit   Clarence Perry, 1929  
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The Disappearing City   Frank Lloyd Wright, 1932  
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Modern Housing   Catherine Bauer, 1934  
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Urban Land Use Planning   F. Stuart Chapin, 1957  
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The IMage of the City   Kevin Lynch, 1960  
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities   Jane Jacobs, 1961  
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Silent Spring   Rachel Carson, 1962  
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The Federal Bulldozer   Martin Anderson, 1964  
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The Urban General Plan   TJ Kent Jr. 1964  
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Design of Cities   Edmund Bacon, 1967  
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Design With Nature   Ian McHarg, 1969  
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Site Planning   Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack, 1971  
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The Practice of Local Government Planning   Frank So, et. al, 1979  
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A Theory of Good City Form   Kevin Lynch, 1981  
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Making Equity Planning Work   Norman Krumholz, John Forester, 1990  
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Rural By Design   Randall Arendt, 1994  
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The Geography of Nowhere   Jim Kunstler, 1994  
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Bowling Alone   Robert Putnam, 2000  
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First Comp Plan?   Cincinnati, 1925  
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First COG?   Detroit, 1954  
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First downtown pedestrian mall?   Kalamazoo Mall in Michigan in 1956  
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First Earth Day?   April 22, 1970  
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First forestry service director?   Gifford Pinchot in 1905  
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First planning commission employee?   Harland Bartholomew in 1915  
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First garden suburb?   Forest Hills Gardens, in 1911  
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First Historic Preservation District?   NOLA in 1921  
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First Land Use ZOning Ordinance?   Los Angeles in 1909  
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First "model" tenement?   1855  
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First national conference on planning?   Washington DC in 1909  
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First National Park?   Yellowstone in 1872  
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First planning board?   Hartford 1907  
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First Planning School?   Harvard in 1929  
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First skyscraper?   Chicago in 1885  
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First statewide zoning?   Hawaii in 1961  
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First US Census?   1790  
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First zoning ordinance?   New York City in 1916.  
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What is a design charrette?   Intensive collaboration effort that brings citizens, stakeholders and staff to develop a detailed design. Its effective for quickly developing consensus.  
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What is the Delphi Method?   Developed for the Air Force in 1944, uses questionairres and feedback to develop a single solution.  
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What is the nominal group technique?   Group process involving problem identification, solution generation and decision making. People rank solutions, discussed, and then highest rank is selected. Can be used by any size group.  
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What is facilitation?   Uses a person without a direct stake in the outcome to help groups that disagree work together to solve problems and come to consensus.  
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What is mediation?   When you bring in a neutral third party to facilitate a structured, multi stage process to reach a satisfactory agreement.  
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What is a visual preference survey?   Looking at images to see what is appropriate  
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What is fiscal impact analysis?   AKA cost-revenue analysis, used to estimate costs and revenues of a proposed development (costs: infrastructure and services) (revenues: sales, property, income tax). Used for new developments or annexation.  
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What is the Average Per Capita Method?   It divides the total local budget of the existing population in a city to determine the average per capita cost for the jurisdiction. VERY SIMPLISTIC  
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When was the first dumbbell tenment built?   1879.  
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What was the problem with the dumbbell tenement?   Poor lighting, little air, and little space.  
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When did NYC pass the Tenement House Act?   1867  
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What did the Tenement House Act of 1867 require?   Narrow air shaft between buildings, windows that open into the shaft, two toilets on each floor, and one square yard window in each room. First major housing code in the US.  
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When did New York State pass the Tenement House Law?   1901  
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What was important about the Tenement House Law of 1901?   It outlawed dumbbell tenements. It required inspection and permits for consturction and alterations. It also required wide light and air areas between buildings as well as running water.  
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When did clarence perry define the Neighborhood Unit Concept?   1920  
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Where did Clarence Perry define the neighborhood unit concept in the 1920s?   New York Regional Plan  
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What was the Neighborhood Unit Concept?   Defined a neighborhood based upon a five minute walking radius, with a center school  
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How big was a neighborhood unit according to clarence perry?   160 acres  
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The depression-era Public Works Administration was created in 1934 to do what?   Fund 85% of public housing. It was the first federally supported public housing program.  
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What was the significance of the 1934 National Housing Act?   It established the FHA that would insure home mortgages.  
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What was the purpose of the Resettlement Administration?   Used New Deal money to develop new towns, but only three were built.  
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What was the significance of the 1937 US Housing Act?   Provided $500 million in home loans for low-cost housing, and tied slum clearance to public housing.  
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The 1944 Serviceman's Readjustment Act is more commonly known as...   THE GI BILL and it guaranteed home loans to veterans  
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What was the significance of the Housing Act of 1949?   It was the first comprehensive housing legislation to pass. It called for the construction of 800,000 new housing units, emphasizing slum clearance.  
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What was the significance of the Housing Act of 1954?   It called for slum prevention and urban renewal. It also provided funds for planning for cities under 25,000 people. This act also included the 701 funds that were later expanded to allow statewide, interstate and regional planning.  
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What was the significance of the Housing Act of 1959?   It made federal matching funds available for comprehensive planning at the metro, regional, state, and interstate levels.  
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What was the significance of the Housing Act of 1961?   It provided interest subsidies to nonprofit organizations, limited-dividend corporations, cooperatives and public agencies to construct public housing for low and moderate income people.  
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When was HUD founded?   1965  
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What was HUDs enabling legislation?   The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965  
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Besides creating HUD, what else did the HUD Act provide for?   Rent subidies, reduced interest rate home loans, and public housing subsidies.  
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When was housing discrimination on the basis of race made illegal?   1968 with the Civil Rights Act  
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When was CDBG created?   1974  
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When did UDAG come about?   1977  
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When was HOME created?   1990  
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What created the HOME Program?   National Affordable Housing Act of 1990.  
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When was HOPE VI passed?   1992  
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