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1937 U.S. Housing Act (Wagner-Steagall) - "set the stage for future government aid by appropriating
$500 million in loans for low-cost housing. Tied slum clearance to public housing. created the United
States Housing Authority"
Garden City Movement - a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard
in the United Kingdom. intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by greenbelts",
containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture."
Ebenezer Howard - "(1850-1928) Published Garden Cities of Tomorrow about a utopian city in which
people live harmoniously together with nature. The publication result in the Garden City Movement."
Sir Raymond Unwin - "English town planner and designer of Letchworth Lectured at University of
Birmingham and Columbia."
Catherine Bauer Wurster - "Founder of American housing policy Served as Executive Secretary of
Regional Planning Association of America. Wrote Modern Housing and was influential in Housing Act of
1937."
City Beautiful Movement - "1890's-1900's movement where leaders believed creating a beautiful city
would inspire residents to lead virtuous lives; creation of Beaux-Arts style civic centers Advocates of the
philosophy believed that such beautification could thus promote harmonious social order that would
increase the quality of life, while critics would complain that the movement was overly concerned with
aesthetics at the expense of social reform; Jane Jacobs referred to the movement as an architectural
design cult"""""
Incremental Planning Theory - "one theory of decision making. goals accomplished through a series of
successive, limited comparisons. For each alternative, only important consequences are considered.
Charles Lindblom Science of Muddling Through"" 1959"
Mixed Scanning Theory - "one theory of decision making. Sociologist Amitai Etzioni found fault with both
the rational-comprehensive model of decision making and the incremental model of decision making.
This approach considers both fundamental and incremental decisions and incorporates a broad-based
,analysis sometimes and an in-depth analysis at other times. It considers the differing capacities of
decision makers."
Rational Comprehensive Model - "one theory of decision making. assumes that the decision maker can
identify the problem, that the decision maker's goals, values, and objectives are clear and ranked in
accord with their importance, that alternative ways of addressing the problem are considered, that the
cost and benefits or advantages and disadvantages of each alternative are investigated, that alternatives
and their consequences can be compared with other alternatives, and that the decision maker will
choose the alternative that maximizes the attainment of his or her goals, values, and objectives."
Equity Planning Theory - "from Advocacy Planning - Norman Krumholz in 1970's. planners should work
to redistribute power, resources, or participation away from elite to poor and working class plans
evaluated on improvements to quality of life."
Three parts of plan-making. - "According to The Practice of Local Government Planning: 1. Goals and
visions; 2. Analysis of current problems; and 3. Creation and evaluation of alternatives."
Sustaining Places Initiative - "eight principles for developing comprehensive plans that address today's
needs without compromising the needs of the next generation. Planning for sustainability is the defining
challenge of the 21st century. More than any other single endeavor, it confronts the critical perils to our
future, from energy shortages and environmental stress to climate shifts and population surges."
feet in a mile - 5,280 feet
0-0.5% slope - no drainage, not suited for development;
0.5-1% slope - no problems, ideal for all types of development
1-3% slope - slight problems for large commercial areas; acceptable for residential
3-5% slope - major problems for commercial/industrial/large scale residential
5-10% slope - suitable only for specially designed development
, Floor area ratio (FAR) - "ratio of the gross floor area of a building to its ground area. It is used primarily
to determine building density on a site; i.e., the size of a building in relation to the size of the lot where
it sits. The floor area of the building is measured to the middle of the outside walls and includes the
inside walls as part of the calculation."
Quantitative (Site) Analysis - scale, slope, floor area ratio
Population - the total number of some entity
Sample - a subset of the population
Descriptive Statistics - the characteristics of a population
Inferential Statistics - characteristics of a population based on observations made on a sample from that
population. We infer things about the population based on what is observed in the sample
Mean - the average of a distribution
Weighted Mean - when there is greater importance placed on specific entries or when the frequency
distribution results in a representative value being assigned for each class.
Median - the middle number of a ranked distribution
Mode - the most frequent number in a distribution
Nominal data - classified into mutually exclusive groups that lack intrinsic order, such as race, social
security number, or sex. Mode is the only measure of central tendency that can be used for nominal
data.
Ordinal data - values that are ranked so that inferences can be made regarding the magnitude
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