Community & Regional Planning

Terms/ Concepts:

1. Urban/Suburban Sprawl
2. Urbanization
3. Urban Renewal
4. City Beautiful Movement (and the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago)
5. Garden City Movement (Ebenezer Howard)
6. American Planning Association

Short answer:

1. What is Community and Regional Planning?
2. What do planners do?
3. Describe the evolution of planning theory and practice.
4. What are environmental problems in urban areas?
5. What are environmental benefits of urbanization?
6. What are factors that contributed to rapid urbanization in US cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

7. Describe urban land use planning
8. What are characteristics of a sustainable city?
9. Describe the planning history and discuss the reform movements in the late 19th, early 20th centuries?
10. Discuss planning tensions in the history of planning?
11. What are characteristics of Ebenezer Howard's vision of the Garden City and its application in the Untied Stated?
12. Describe legal framework for planning.
13. What is the federal role in planning?
14. What is the role of municipal governments in planning?
15. What is difference between Dillon’s rule and home rule?
16. Discuss eminent domain and reference a court case that challenged the government's use of eminent domain.

17. What is the relationship between planning and politics?
18. Why is planning political?
19. Based on the lecture, what are styles of planning (i.e. functions of planners)?
20. How are planning organizations organized?
21. How to reduce political influence in the planning process?
22. Discuss planning in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia and provide examples
23. What are differences between the situation of planning in Western Europe and in the US?