Transportation Planning
What are the two types of funding for public and private transportation?
Public and Private
If not all regions of a place are doing well economically. Example, decline of coal-mining in Appalachian region is an example of _______ ______?
Geographic Disparities
What two disciplines does Urban Design consist of?
Architecture and Planning
What do you call minimizing damages caused by humans to the natural environment?
Environmental Planning
______ ______ is defined as:
Regulation of the amount, character, location, and timing of development.
Growth Management
This type of transit that has the largest growth, doesn't operate on fixed routes or schedules, often serves those with disabilities or the elderly
Examples of this include property tax abatement (reduced taxes).
Subsidization
The following elements are included in _______?
-Nodes
-Activity Areas
-Boundaries
-Paths
-Edges
-Landmarks
Mental Maps
Minimizing threats to human health and life, preserving resources for future generations, achieving aesthetic and recreational goals, and minimizing damage to the environment for its own sake, are the 4 goals of _____ ______?
Environmental Planning
_____ _____ includes the principles of:
- Land use controls
- Tax policies
- Public subsidies
- Infill development and adaptive reuse (reuse of existing buildings)
- Urban growth boundaries, such as Portland, Oregon’s
- New Urbanism principles
- Implementation at local, county, or
state levels
Smart Growth
What is the prominent factor shaping the demand for transportation?
Land-use
A long-term mismatch between labor supply and labor demand, may apply to skills (farmworkers vs. computer programmers) or geography (a manufacturing plant closes in the Midwest and one opens in the SE U.S. or in another country) is known as ______ _______?
Structural Unemployment
Gathering of basic information, visual survey, identification of hard and soft areas and functional analysis are major parts of the ______ phase of the Urban Design process?
Analysis
Over-exploitation of resources through overuse and misuse is called ______ ___ ____ _________?
Tragedy of the Commons
Rule #1 in planning for natural disasters includes:
- Preserve natural buffers such as coastal ecosystems - mangrove swamps around the Gulf of Mexico and native grasses, rushes, & sedges along lakeshores
- Discourage new development in areas prone to unreasonable risks – don’t build structures in areas subject to wildfire, landslides, or flooding.
Go Green
Whats the name of the step in the 4 step process that determines how people are going to get to their destination?
Mode/Modal choice
2nd step in approach to Economic Development Planning, examine the municipality’s strengths & weaknesses, such as wages, labor availability, taxes, land & construction costs, existing commercial & industrial establishments, utility rates, transportation infrastructure, educational system, cultural institutions
Market Evaluation
Minimum conflict between pedestrians and vehicles, easy orientation for users and compatibility of land uses are 3 of the 7 characteristics of ________?
Good Urban Design
What is the act administered by the EPA and is designed to investigate and clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances?
The U.S federal Superfund Law (Superfund)
Rule #2 in planning for natural disasters includes:
- Different groups suffer more than others when natural disasters hit – generally the poor and minorities are affected more
- Good planning takes this into account – evacuation planning for everyone, not just those with cars
Be fair
What has been the prominent trend in development in U.S cities since WWII?
Low Density Development
Largest incentive package was in 2014 to _____ by the State of Washington
- $8.7 billion in tax breaks through 2040
- Kept _____ from moving to a non-union (right-to-work) state
Boeing
Tysons Corner, Schaumburg area and Dearborn-Fairfield village are examples of what?
Edge Cities
According to the EPA, what is the source of nearly 60% of emissions in the U.S?
250 million passenger cars, SUV's and Pick-up trucks.
Rule #3 in natural disaster planning includes:
- Place emphasis on safety considerations, not just financial interests.
Be safe