Deck 1: The Nature of Planning

Question 1

The scope and character of land use planning in the United States is determined by the federal government.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that property cannot be taken without just compensation.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Planning necessarily involves restraint on the actions of individual landowners.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Equity planning focuses primarily on land use and physical planning.

Question 5

Public planning is generally concerned with ensuring consistency between development and standards set out in legislative instruments.

Question 6

Local interest groups are particuarly weak and rarely impact planning processes.

Question 7

Reconciling differences among participants is a major feature of planning.

Question 8

The legislative body is typically responsible for plan implementation.

Question 9

The "digital Divide" indicates that some people do not have access to computers or other forms of information technology.

Question 10

The Community Land Use Game (CLUG) brought the idea of city building to the masses.

Question 11

Sim City is computer software that is designed to display, store and manipulate information about spatially distributed geographically referenced data and information.

Question 12

The use of GIS has drastically decreased over the years.

Question 13

Satellite imagery facilitates the analysis of man-made and natural change occuring on earth.

Question 14

In the United States, land is viewed as a replaceable commodity, parceled out for individual control and development.

Question 15

The purpose of a GIS is to serve as a map-making system

Question 16

Which of the following concepts was Paul Davidoff a proponent of?

A) Advocacy Planning
B) Comprehensive Planning
C) Incrementalism
D) Central Control

Question 17

Successive limited comparisons' is a characteristic of which planning approach?

A) Rational-Comprehensive
B) Equity Planning
C) Consensus-Building
D) Incrementalism

Question 18

In order to participate in the public policy process, citizens need which of the following?

A) Proof of Citizenship
B) Internet
C) Information
D) Money

Question 19

CAD stands for which of the following?

A) Computer-analyzed Design
B) Computer-animated design
C) Computer-automated design
D) Computer-aided Design

Question 20

If you decide to work in an industrial plant that uses chemicals in its processes and you were warned in advance about the dangers of exposure, you have assumed which of the following?

A) Responsibility
B) Voluntary Risk
C) Risk
D) Involuntary Risk

Question 21

Findley and Farber define which of the following as, "the use of scientific data to define the probability of some harm coming to an individual or a population because of exposure to a substance or situation.

A) Cost-Benefit Analysis
B) Scientific Assessments
C) Economic Analysis
D) Risk Assessment

Question 22

Which of the following phrases does NOT refer to the character of planning?

A) A process of formulating goals and agreeing on the manner in which they are to be met.
B) Forethough, choice between alternatives, consideration of constraints, and the possibility of alternative courses of action.
C) Making Decisions based on the beliefs held by the majority of residents in a particular area.
D) A process of reaching agreement on objectives.

Question 23

Which concept is central to the theory of planning?

A) Theatrical analogy
B) Goal Setting
C) Practicality
D) Rationality

Question 24

Which type of group forms the core of planning activity?

A) Interest Groups
B) Metropolitan Government
C) Municipal Governments
D) Non-Profit Groups

Question 25

Which type of planning promotes the interests of the disadvantaged?

A) Advocacy Planning
B) Transportation Planning
C) Environmental Planning
D) Community Planning

Question 26

Equity planning extends the focus from land use and physical planning to address:

A) Site Planning
B) Social and Economic Issues
C) Climate Change
D) Public Transit

Question 27

Which approach replaces grand plans with a modest step by step approach which aims at realizable improvements to an existing situation

A) Community Planning
B) Implementation
C) Local Planning
D) Incrementalism

Question 28

The private planning process involves all of the following characteristics except:

A) Risk
B) Opportunism
C) Bureaucracy
D) Responsible for Development Proposals

Question 29

Consensus building, public hearing and charrettes are tools used to promote

A) Stakeholder Analysis
B) Citizen Participation
C) Planning Implementation
D) All of the above

Question 30

Which of the following is NOT a step involved in the planning process?

A) Identify risks associated with plan document
B) Identify issues and options
C) Collect and interpret data
D) State goals, objectives, and priorities

Question 31

A factor that contributes to a 'digital divide' is

A) Lack of income
B) Community websites that are only in English
C) Lack of community technology centers
D) All of the above

Question 32

Possible information included in a GIS are

A) Property Values
B) Road Networks
C) Polling Locations
D) All of the above