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AICP EXAM PREP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSWhat does the first section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answers -Principles to
which we aspire
What does the second section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answers -Our rules
of conduct
What does the third section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answers -Our code
procedures
Who designed Columbia, MD? - Answers -James Rouse, 1967; planned community that
consists of ten self-contained villages
US Population in 2000 - Answers -281,421,906
The Council of Government movement started... - Answers -In Detroit in 1954
Oligotrophic lakes - Answers -Deep lakes with low supply of nutrients and thus little
organic matter
Dissimilarity Index - Answers -measures the intensity of segregation of two groups of
people across space (typically for a city or metro area suing census tracts or block
groups). Value between 0 and 1 (or 100), "the percent of people from group A that
would have to move to another tract in order for the proportion of residents in all tracts
to equal the proportion in the metro area as a whole"
Isolation Index - Answers -Measures the percentage of the same-group population in
the census tract where the average member of a racial/ethnic group lives (the
probability that a member of one group will meet another member of the same group in
their census tract). Value between 0 and 100 (higher = more segregation)
Exposure Index - Answers -Measures the percentage of other-group population in the
census tract where the average member of a racial/ethnic group lives (% of average
race A's neighbors are race B)
Entropy Index - Answers -Compares the composition of all groups (more than 2) at the
same time, ranges from 0 to 1 (or 100) compares the actual distribution in a tract or city
to an abstract situation of complete diversity across all groups
Simpson's D - Answers -Also known as the 'index of diversity', ranges from 0 (complete
homogeneity) to 1 (complete evenness); only maximizes to 1 if you have infinite
numbers of categories. Considered roughly comparable to the entropy index
Gini coefficient - Answers -Measure of inequality - can be used to measure the
distribution of nearly any variable. Based on the Lorenz curve, which relates the
cumulative distribution of the variable of interest on the Y-axis to the cumulative
, distribution of social units of observation (e.g. households) on the X-axis. The Gini
Coefficient is the ratio of the area above the curve and below the diagonal to the whole
triangle
Cohort-Component Method - Answers -Population projection method using birth, death,
and migration rates. Steps:
1. calculate death rates
2. project survivors
3. project births
4. project migration
Shift-share - Answers -Analyzes strengths and weaknesses of a specific region's
industries. Looks at the changing mix of activities and at whether activities are shifting
toward or away from the study area (attempts to account for the movement of jobs into
or out of the local economy due to factors affecting the local economy when projecting
employment).
Economic Base Analysis/Theory - Answers -Breaks industry into two categories: basic
industries are those exporting from the region and bringing wealth from outside; non-
basic (or service) industries support basic industries. Economic Base Theory asserts
that the means of strengthening and growing the local economy is to develop and
enhance the basic sector.
Location quotient - Answers -Economic base analysis method - a number derived by
comparing percent employment in a place with percent employment in a reference
economy/larger region (e.g. nationwide). If an industry has a greater share than
expected of a given industry, then that "extra" industry employment is assumed to be
Basic because those jobs are above what a local economy should have to serve local
needs.
Urban Development Action Grant program - Answers -Federal program begun in 1977;
provided $5 billion over 11 years for revitalizing severely distressed urban places
through the encouragement of private sector investment (public-private partnership).
Designed to assist commercial, industrial, and housing projects that "but for" the federal
grant would not be built, the program was characterized by a streamlined grant-making
process administered by finance and development experts. Leveraged
intergovernmental coordination, placed responsibility with proposals with local
governments
Policy Delphi method - Answers -Panel of experts used to generate the range of
potential resolutions to a policy issue; uses a series of surveys that allow for
reevaluation of initial positions. Deals with statements, arguments, comments and
discussion
Fishbowl planning - Answers -Fishbowling is where a small group of planners (perhaps
3 or 4) are given a planning scenario. They sit together in the center of a larger group of
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