Urban Planning Test Questions And
Answers A+ Graded
Regulatory taking CORRECT ANSWERS Regulation that restricts your use to that
property
Physical taking CORRECT ANSWERS Government takes the land away from the
owner
Geography CORRECT ANSWERS science of spatial organization and human
environment interaction
Land Use Law CORRECT ANSWERS Public interests v. private property rights
-efficient and productive land uses
-geographic context (relative location)
-law shapes cities
Urban planning CORRECT ANSWERS Rational allocation of land use activity and
private property rights
City of Ladue v. Horn 1986 CORRECT ANSWERS the court deferred to ladue's
definition of family
-family has to be defined because its in the zoning
-"single family house"
Municipal Ordinances CORRECT ANSWERS Had 2 prime purposes:
-Enhance public morals, health, and safety in the urban environment
-Offenses against trade and commerce
Common Law Doctrine CORRECT ANSWERS -Based on a case by case basis
-Trespass or encroachment
-physical invasion by an individual who had no right to enter the property BUT gradually
expanded to hold parties, allowed livestock or water encroachment
-Nuisance
-addresses the externalities of actions taken elsewhere (light, air pollution, noise
1667 Act for Rebuilding London CORRECT ANSWERS -stone and brick to be used on
exterior facades
-width of street made proportional to traffic volume
-public space at waterfront for public access to water for fire fighting
-public nuisance activities removed from city center to suitable outside locations
-height restrictions
-compensation to property owners whose rights to rebuild was constrained by public
restrictions
, Regulation CORRECT ANSWERS In England, focused on urban squalor
-Public Sanitary Reform
-1800s rapid urbanization and population caused small overcrowded row housing
-led to the emergence of the PRG, which advocated legislative intervention i the market
place to remedy social ills
Redevelopment CORRECT ANSWERS of urban infrastructure (In England)
-Influential urban improvements and restructuring by architect JON NASH (Buckingham
Palace)
-transformation of Paris through Napoleonic powers
-demolition and replacement of pre-existing streets with broad tree lined streets of Paris
(encompassed all aspects of urban planning)
Relocation CORRECT ANSWERS New Town and Utopias:
-Robert Owen developed a general theory of cooperative socio economic organization
based on experience of managing
PRG CORRECT ANSWERS Philosophic Radical Group
Jeremy Bentham CORRECT ANSWERS English jurist, philosopher, and legal and
social reformer.
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Jon Nash CORRECT ANSWERS Architect
-works include Buckingham Palace, St. James Park, Regent St.
Baron von Haussman CORRECT ANSWERS French civic planner
-was responsible for the transformation of Paris
-inspired the City Beautiful Movement
Redevelopment Emphasis CORRECT ANSWERS On:
-Aesthetics and focal points (parks, statues, & fountains)
-Functionalism (developed water & sewer lines under streets)
-Metropolitan ism~recognized connections between city and suburbs. (Considered the
region as appropriate planning unit)
-Deficit funding~borrow from the bank and pay off debt later
-Technocrats~technical planning skills were made available unlike the 1667 act
Relocation Emphasis CORRECT ANSWERS Emphasis placed on:
-Residents being near place of work
-central heating
-communal living for older children
-adult re-education center
-child care facilities
Answers A+ Graded
Regulatory taking CORRECT ANSWERS Regulation that restricts your use to that
property
Physical taking CORRECT ANSWERS Government takes the land away from the
owner
Geography CORRECT ANSWERS science of spatial organization and human
environment interaction
Land Use Law CORRECT ANSWERS Public interests v. private property rights
-efficient and productive land uses
-geographic context (relative location)
-law shapes cities
Urban planning CORRECT ANSWERS Rational allocation of land use activity and
private property rights
City of Ladue v. Horn 1986 CORRECT ANSWERS the court deferred to ladue's
definition of family
-family has to be defined because its in the zoning
-"single family house"
Municipal Ordinances CORRECT ANSWERS Had 2 prime purposes:
-Enhance public morals, health, and safety in the urban environment
-Offenses against trade and commerce
Common Law Doctrine CORRECT ANSWERS -Based on a case by case basis
-Trespass or encroachment
-physical invasion by an individual who had no right to enter the property BUT gradually
expanded to hold parties, allowed livestock or water encroachment
-Nuisance
-addresses the externalities of actions taken elsewhere (light, air pollution, noise
1667 Act for Rebuilding London CORRECT ANSWERS -stone and brick to be used on
exterior facades
-width of street made proportional to traffic volume
-public space at waterfront for public access to water for fire fighting
-public nuisance activities removed from city center to suitable outside locations
-height restrictions
-compensation to property owners whose rights to rebuild was constrained by public
restrictions
, Regulation CORRECT ANSWERS In England, focused on urban squalor
-Public Sanitary Reform
-1800s rapid urbanization and population caused small overcrowded row housing
-led to the emergence of the PRG, which advocated legislative intervention i the market
place to remedy social ills
Redevelopment CORRECT ANSWERS of urban infrastructure (In England)
-Influential urban improvements and restructuring by architect JON NASH (Buckingham
Palace)
-transformation of Paris through Napoleonic powers
-demolition and replacement of pre-existing streets with broad tree lined streets of Paris
(encompassed all aspects of urban planning)
Relocation CORRECT ANSWERS New Town and Utopias:
-Robert Owen developed a general theory of cooperative socio economic organization
based on experience of managing
PRG CORRECT ANSWERS Philosophic Radical Group
Jeremy Bentham CORRECT ANSWERS English jurist, philosopher, and legal and
social reformer.
-
Jon Nash CORRECT ANSWERS Architect
-works include Buckingham Palace, St. James Park, Regent St.
Baron von Haussman CORRECT ANSWERS French civic planner
-was responsible for the transformation of Paris
-inspired the City Beautiful Movement
Redevelopment Emphasis CORRECT ANSWERS On:
-Aesthetics and focal points (parks, statues, & fountains)
-Functionalism (developed water & sewer lines under streets)
-Metropolitan ism~recognized connections between city and suburbs. (Considered the
region as appropriate planning unit)
-Deficit funding~borrow from the bank and pay off debt later
-Technocrats~technical planning skills were made available unlike the 1667 act
Relocation Emphasis CORRECT ANSWERS Emphasis placed on:
-Residents being near place of work
-central heating
-communal living for older children
-adult re-education center
-child care facilities
