Deck 3: World Urbanization

Question 1

A philsophy of 'privatism' holds that public controls are restraints on progress.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Park advocates believed that beautiful parks and recreation areas, in addition to providing a place for rest and relaxation, were places of moral rejuvenation.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The belief that good design was profitable was inherent in the City Beautiful movement.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Commision Form of Government was often criticised as being too business like.

Question 5

Ideas of 'scientific management', like those put forward by Frederick Winslow Taylor, were influential among municipal reformers.

Question 6

The preoccupation with controlling the excesses of corruption has augmented the importance of the political process.

Question 7

The original charter members of the American City Planning Institute were an incredibly diverse group.

Question 8

The common gridiron plan easily accomodates topographical contours.

Question 9

The gridiron plan facilitates land speculation.

Question 10

The term 'Council of Government' is used to describe a regional government.

Question 11

As a result of the quest to make planning a more scientific and rational endeavor, zoning became the focus of planning action at the expense of visions of future development.

Question 12

Pubic powers were no longer needed once the philosophy of privatism was implemented

Question 13

Which of the following was not a component (or STRAND) of the rise of the City Beautiful Movement?

A) A desire to make cities beautiful.
B) The belief that beautiful design is more efficient and profitable.
C) The importance attached to expertise and experts.
D) A desire to emulate the monumental cities of Asia.

Question 14

Within the urban areas of the early colonial cities, regulations were designed to promote

A) Capitalism
B) The production of food
C) Industrialism
D) Health and Safety

Question 15

The free operation of individual initiatives in the search for private profit defines

A) Speculation
B) Privatism
C) Development
D) Utopia

Question 16

One important provision of New York City's 1895 slum clearing legislation was

A) Urban playgrounds and parks
B) Meat packing plants
C) Tenement Housing
D) Single Family Homes

Question 17

The movement that desired to make American cities places of beauty, set in an artificial naturalistic landscape was known as

A) Urban Renewal
B) Suburbanization
C) The City Beautiful
D) The City Efficient

Question 18

What piece of legislation introduced federal financial assistance for metropolitan planning?

A) The 1954 Housing Act
B) The City Beautiful
C) Act of 1656
D) None of the Above

Question 19

Regional voluntary organizations of local governments are referred to as

A) Regional Planning Districts
B) Councils of Government
C) Urban Renewal Districts
D) Regional Planning Commissions

Question 20

Watershed planning is a form of

A) Community Planning
B) National Planning
C) Regional Planning
D) Municipal Planning

Question 21

What is now looked back on as a corrupt form of government and has led to a persisting distrust of city government?

A) Reform Movement
B) Privatism
C) Regional Planning
D) Machine Politics