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Known as the Father of Landscape Architecture, This Figure is best known for designing the grounds of Central Park in NYC, the US Capitol in Washington DC, and even Cherokee Park in Louisville, KY!
Who is Frederick Law Olmstead Sr.?
The Supreme Court upheld modern zoning as a proper use of police power in 1926 in This Case.
What is Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty?
Based on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard in his novel Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Reform, This Development is widely known as the world's first Garden City.
What is Letchworth, England?
This Level of Measurement is used to categorize and rank data in equal intervals, with no true zero. Examples include temperature or year.
What is Interval?
This Type of Zoning Code tends to focus on physical form of developments, including concepts like frontage, building height, building placement, etc.)
What is Form Based Code?
Author of Cities in Evolution, This Figure is known as the Father of Regional Planning.
Who is Patrick Geddes?
This Supreme Court case established the "essential nexus" takings test for conditioning development approvals on exactions and dedications.
What is Nollan v California Coastal Commission (1987)?
This City was the first in the United States to adopt a Comprehensive Plan in 1925.
What is Cincinnati, OH?
A planner is conducting a study of how many data centers were approved in each suburb of Columbus, OH, over the last 10 years. The planner gathered the following data set:
10, 21, 37, 21, 45, 66, 37, 11, 15, 21, 4, 11, 55, 38, 44, 62, 10, 5, 4, 11, 21, 33
What is the Mode of the data set?
What is 21?
This Constitutional Requirement guarantees that a governing body follow all the fair procedures, such as providing proper notice for a hearing, before taking away a person's life, liberty, or property.
What is Procedural Due Process?
Author of the first comprehensive zoning ordinance in NYC in 1916, This Figure is known as the Father of Zoning.
Who is Edward Basset?
This Landmark Supreme Court Case ruled that state-imposed building height restrictions are a valid exercise of police power and do not violate the 14th Amendment's Due Process clause.
What is Welch v. Swasey (1909)?
A large proponent of "slum clearance" and highway construction, This Figure is considered the first professional planner in the United States.
Who is Harland Bartholomew?
This Surveying Method entails selecting from a population that is divided into multiple heterogenous groups or classes and taking a random sample.
What is a Stratification / a Stratified Sample?
This Term is defined as something, such as a land dedication, fee in lieu, or site improvement, that the local zoning authority requires a property owner to give to the community in order to obtain approval to develop land.
What is an Exaction?
This Figure was the primary author of the Housing Act of 1937, the nation's first affordable housing legislation.
Who is Catherine Bauer Wurster?
This Landmark Legislation that aimed to address national housing shortages and urban decay, was signed into law as a part of President Truman's "Fair Deal".
What is the Housing Act of 1949?
This City was the first city in the United States to pass an ordinance creating a historic district
What is New Orleans?
In hypothesis testing, This Statistic evaluates the relationship between two nominal or ordinal variables, comparing observations to expected results.
What is Chi Square?
This Intensive Planning Session entails citizens, designers and others collaborating on a vision for development. These sessions can last anywhere from a few hours to multiple weeks.
What is a Design Charette?
This Figure designed the Radiant City, which prioritized building orientation to maximize sunlight exposure, automobile transportation, and limited access highways with residential isolated from industrial uses.
Who is Le Corbusier?
This Judicial Review Test requires the gov’t to prove an action was for a legitimate purpose (easy), and there is a rational relationship (believable/reasonable) between the action and gov’t’s purpose.
What is the Rational Basis Test?
Implemented to protect agricultural land and promote development within the city, the first urban growth boundary was established in This City in 1958.
What is Lexington, KY?
This Population Projection Method is used to project future population size and structure by analyzing three key components of population change: fertility, mortality, and migration.
What is the Cohort Survival / Cohort-Component Method?
The technique in strategic planning known as "SWOT" is meant to gather and organize information regarding These Four Concepts.
What are Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats