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Chapter 1 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe the need for planning in urban life.
- Indicate the various concerns of urban planning.
- Describe the role of planners in urban planning.
- Describe a professional organization and its functions in urban planning.
- List the advantages and disadvantages of planning.
- List the skills needed to be a successful planner.
Chapter 2 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe three main forces behind urban growth and why urban concentration increased in the nineteenth century.
- Discuss urban trends in the twentieth century, regional trends, the impact of urbanization on the poor, and the boomburg phenomenon.
Chapter 3 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe how the American Revolution changed the approach for town planning in the United States.
- Identify the problems faced by the early planners after the American Revolution due to limited means and growth pressures.
- Describe the reforms carried out to keep up with rising urban population and urban development.
- Analyze how the Plan of Chicago paved the way for modern city planning.
- Evaluate the effects of zoning and planning commissions on urbanization during the 1920s.
- Describe how regional and state planning was implemented to build urbanized regions.
- Evaluate the influence of Ebenezer Howard’s idea of garden cities on modern planning.
Chapter 4 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Explain the impact of the Great Depression on planning.
- Describe the various planning initiatives taken after the second world war.
Chapter 5 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe the constitutional framework, the powers and limitations of local governments, and the Fourteenth Amendment.
- Discuss the role of public control over the use of private property.
- List the various rights of nonresidents.
- Discuss the Kelo decision and the rules that limit the use of eminent domain.
- State the main purpose the state’s local planning legislation and the legal link to state planning.
- Explain the federal role of the government and the mandated responsibilities of the federal government in planning.
Chapter 6 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- List the reasons why planning takes place in a highly politicized environment.
- Discuss the role of a planner in the implementation of a plan and describe the shift in the planners’ viewpoint on the political involvement in planning.
- List the different ways in which political power in the United States is fragmented and identify the role of citizen participation in planning.
- Identify the different styles of planning that a planner may adopt.
- Describe how planning agencies are organized.
Chapter 7 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Analyze the problems involved in planning for housing, the “Special Case of Private Communities,” and the issue of homelessness.
- Discuss the social aspect of other planning issues such as disaster planning, economic development, transportation, environmental justice, gender, and feminism.
- Explain who is a social planner.
Chapter 8 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe the features and goals of comprehensive planning.
- Explain the five steps and necessary tools for the comprehensive planning process.
- Identify factors that contribute to the effectiveness of the plan.
Chapter 9 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe investment in public capital.
- Describe in detail capital expenditures, capital budget, types of bonds, and the 2008 recession.
- List the regulations laid down to control land use and the different zoning ordinances.
- Identify the different techniques used in zoning and planned unit development and explain the transfer of development rights.
- Summarize form-based zoning.
- Classify different forms of local land-use controls.
- Explain the process of combining capital investment and land-use controls.
- List the other issues encountered during land-use planning.
Chapter 10 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Define urban design and explain the role of an urban designer in planning.
- Sequence and describe the four phases in urban design process.
- List the factors that determine the effectiveness of an urban design.
- Distinguish between the neotraditionalist view of planning suburbs and modern suburban planning.
- Identify what classifies as an edge city and give examples.
- Analyze how various urban designers have proposed methods to cope with social and technological changes in the future.
- Explain the need for urban planning that matches growing automobile ownership.
Chapter 11 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Discuss the origins of urban renewal, the intentions of starting urban renewal, and its reality.
- Contrast community development with the urban renewal approach.
- Analyze the issues and problems of housing.
- Discuss the process and federal requirements of planning for housing.
- Describe the housing bubble, the problem and implications of abandonment, and the measures taken to curb the housing problem.
Chapter 12 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe the recent trends in personal and public transportation since World War II.
- Explain how the costs of transportation are covered in private and public transportation.
- Describe the relationship between transportation planning and land-use planning.
- Sequence the steps in the planning process for highways and public transportation.
- Discuss the role of federal funding on transportation projects.
- Explain how transportation system management is able to make the existing highway system more efficient.
- Describe the importance of tolled roads in traffic management and revenue generation.
- Analyze how technology can be used to make transportation easier, faster, and smarter.
Chapter 13 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Discuss the historic roots of planning for economic development.
- Contrast the different perspectives on local economic development.
- List the efforts made by the state for economic development.
- Evaluate the various economic development programs, the relationship between planners and economic developers, and the actions of a community to promote its economic growth.
Chapter 14 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Identify the factors that evoked the need for growth management.
- Explain how growth management does not benefit all the parties involved in the program.
- Compare and contrast local growth management programs.
- Compare and contrast state-level growth management programs throughout the United States.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a growth management system in a particular area.
- Describe how the undesirable aspects of suburban sprawls have triggered the need for smart growth and explain the means to achieve smart growth.
- Define sustainable development and list the techniques used to attain sustainable development.
- Describe different approaches for planning for natural disasters and to be able to discuss what was done in the case of Hurricane Katrina (New Orleans) and Hurricane Sandy (New York).
Chapter 15 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Discuss the problem of environmental planning.
- Describe the issue of global climate change in urban planning.
- Assess environmental progress at the national level.
- Paraphrase the history of national environmental policy.
- Describe the relationship between national and local environmental planning.
- List the economic and political issues in environmental planning.
- List the steps followed in local environmental planning.
- Describe energy planning, energy planning at local level, and the LEED program.
Chapter 16 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe the issues that demand a regional approach in planning for a metropolitan area.
- Describe how the regional planning agency, the public authority, and the council of governments have been used in metropolitan-area planning.
- Explain how the Metropolitan Planning Commission and the Metropolitan Council have contributed in the urbanization of the Minneapolis-St. Paul region.
- Describe the role of the Port Authority in improving mass transportation in the New York and New Jersey region.
- Discuss the role of the Atlanta Regional Commission in the metropolitan-area planning of the Atlanta region.
Chapter 17 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Identify examples of national planning in the United States.
- Describe the pattern of land settlement.
- Illustrate how the establishment of the rail network facilitated the rapid development of the United States.
- Paraphrase the water policy and its importance to the west.
- Describe systematic regional planning.
- Describe how the interstate highway system improved transportation and trade between U.S. cities.
- Describe the Federal National Mortgage Association and the process of suburbanization through tax policy.
- Explain the scope federal land management in the U.S.
Chapter 18 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Compare and contrast planning practices in the United States, western Europe.
- Describe the different planning problems in eastern Europe.
- Describe the different planning problems in Asian countries.
Chapter 19 Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Discuss whether theory is necessary in planning.
- Distinguish between public planning and private planning.
- Describe the process of planning, the rational model, disjointed incrementalism, and collaborative rationality.
- Describe advocacy planning and give examples.
- Discuss ideologically based criticisms of planning and the different views on it.