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Learning Objectives

Chapter 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Analyze the problems involved in planning for housing, the Yonkers Housing Case, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Chapter 15

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

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

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.
• Predict what is next in national planning in the U.S.

Chapter 18

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Compare and contrast planning practices in the United States, western Europe.
• Describe the different planning styles used in eastern Europe.
• Describe the different planning styles used in Asian countries.

Chapter 19

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.