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Kevin Lynch   show
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Ebenezer Howard   show
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show Authored "The death and life of American Cities" The book provided a critical look at planners and planning, with a special focus on the mistakes of urban renewal.  
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show Authored "Silent Springs" which focused on the negative effects of the use of herbicides and pesticides.  
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Fredrick Law Olmstead Sr.   show
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Ian McHarg   show
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show 1st President of the American City Planning Institute. Played an important role in shaping the standard city enabling Act of 1928/  
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Alfred Betman   show
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show defined the neighborhood unit (1 mile square with arterial roads on all sides and retail on all four corners. Houses and parks surrounded schools located in the center).  
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show The offial statement of a legislative body that sets forth its major polcies concerning desirable future physical growth  
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show Demographics, Land Use, Transportation, Community facility and infrastruction  
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What is the Mean, Median and Mode   show
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Who is Sal Alinsky?   show
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show Known for his advocacy planning in Ohio  
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show Utilizes scientific methods to determine all the alternatives for a given action. Assumes that one can determine all the alternatives and can choose the best one. There are no $ constraints. Ignores all political influences.  
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show Planning techique that makes minor changes over time. Makes light of the fact that money does run out and is not replenishable.  
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What is Transactive Planning   show
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show Founded by Paul Davidoff. Used by both Norman Krumholz and Sal Alinsky. Planners role is to advocate for the uner represented groups in the planning process. Brought back room negotiations into the open.  
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What is Radical Planning   show
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What is Communicative Planning   show
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What is Ladder of Participation   show
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show Deals with freedom of speach, freedom of assocation and freedom of religion.  
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What is the 5th Amendment   show
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show Deals with Due process, substantive due process, procedural due process, and equal protection  
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show Dillion's rule state provides for local government to do only that which the state has set in policy. Home Rule states allow for local government to develope policy without state authority.  
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What is Range   show
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show This measurement of Central Tendency is classified into mutually exclusive groups that lack intrinsic order. Race, social security number, and sex are examples of this data tool.  
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What is ordinal measurement of central tendency   show
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What is interval measeurement of central tendency.   show
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What is ratio measurement of central tendancy   show
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Who is Walter Moody   show
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show Wisconsin  
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show Los Angeles  
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Who is Harland Bartholomew   show
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Who is Edward Bassett   show
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show This city was the first major U.S. city to adopt a comprehensive plan in 1925, produced by Alfred Bettman and Ladislas Segoe.  
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show This state was the first state to introduce statewide zoning in 1961.  
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Who is Jacob Riis?   show
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Who is Patrick Geddes?   show
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Who is Wiliam Whyte?   show
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show Was a leader the City Beautiful movement. Created the first model civic center, known as the White City, in Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.  
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Which President established the Resettlement Administration in 1935?   show
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show This provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest  
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What is the Homestead Settlement act, of 1862?   show
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The General Land Law Revision Act of 1891?   show
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show This act allowed the Secretary of the Interior to manage forest preserves.  
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show This act allowed the funds raised from the sale of public land in arid states to be used to construct water storage and irrigation systems.  
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What is the Federal Antiquities Act of 1906?   show
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What is the Resettlement Administration of 1935?   show
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show commonly known as the GI Bill, guaranteed home loans to veterans. The result was the rapid development of suburbs.  
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What is the U.S. Housing Act of 1954? What problems did it create?   show
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show This planning theory believes that cities grow in a series of outward rings. Land use is based on the distance from the downtown. There are five rings to his theory.  
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What is Sector Planning Theory?   show
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show This planning theory argued that cities develop a series of specific land use nuclei. A land use nucleus is formed because of accessibility to natural resources, clustering of similar uses, land prices, and the repelling power of land uses.  
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show This theory explains the size and spacing of cities. The theory states that there is a minimum market threshold to bring a firm to a city and there is a maximum range people are willing to travel to receive goods and services.  
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What is Riverside, Illinois   show
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Name the three Garden Cities designed and built under Roosevelt's new deal?   show
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What are the 4 key elements of New Urbanism?   show
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Name 4 cities that embody the new urbanism elements   show
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show How the Other Half Lives and The Children of the Poor. Riis wrote at the turn of the 20th century about the lives of the poor in blighted urban areas.  
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show 1909  
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Which theory posits that land values are highest along major roadways?   show
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show First time historical preservation is used in the US. The USSC found that aquisition of the Gettysburg battlefields was a valid public purpose- use of eminent domain.  
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New Oreleans, 1921 this occurred   show
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This Act was passed in 1935 by US Congress?   show
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show National Historic Preservation Act- est. national register of historic places and provides for protection of preservation worthy sites. Directs each state to appoint a historical preservation officer (SHPO)  
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show Multi Nuceli Planning Theory- Cities growth depended on land use nucleus formed around industry and similar uses; ie Natural resources; land prices etc.  
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What theory did Hoyt posit?   show
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show Concentric Circle- After studying the growth of Chicago, he believed that cities grew in outward rings around the cities core industries.  
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show Central Place Theory- While there is a minimum market threshold to bring a firm to a city and there is a maximum range people are willing to travel to receive goods and services.  
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