AICP Practice Questions

The Safety Element of the General Hazard Mitigation Plan is expanded to cover what?

Natural Hazards, Man-made hazards, and a development retreat from low-lying coastal areas.

Ebenezer Howard is best known for promoting self-sufficient towns with mixed economies known as:

Garrden Cities

What is a landmark housing case?

Southern Burlington NAACP v Township of Mt. Laurel (1975)

Cities in the U.S. were densely settled in the late nineteenth and very early twentieth ceintures. What is not a consequence of high density development?

Federal aid program for cities.

In his 1991 book edge city: life on the new frontier, Joel Garreau defined an egde city as:

A place that was nothing like a city as recently as 30 years ago

The Federal Highway Act of 1956

Was the largest U.S. public works program ever undertaken at the time and extended the road system by 41,000 miles.

Which piece of federal legislation focused on slum clearance?

1949 Housing Act

Which of the following established a system of rectangular survey coordinates for virtually all of the country west of the Appalachians?

Ordinance of 1785

Central Place Theory is a term attributed to:

Walter Christaller

What is considered a staff position in a government agency?

Assistant and associate planners / personnel assistant ad accountant.

In which case did the SC say that a community may prohibit unrelated individuals living as a family in the same house?

Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas (1974)

What did not contribute to the decentralization of urbanized area in the mid to late 20th century?

Deteriorating air quality.

The NY court of appeals case Golden v. Planning Board of Town of Ramapo (1972) resulted in an important decision in what area?

Growth Management

Clarence Stein is best known for his work on which topic?

The American Garden City movement

What regulating document cut lot coverage back to 70 percent and required a separate bathroom for each apartment as well as courtyards for light and ventilation?

1901 Tenement House Act

Who developed the 1920 NY Regional Plan?

Clarence Perry

Which individual is known for first using layering to show suitability?

Ian McHarg

A small, relatively permanent statistical entity with a population of about 4,000, located within a single county (or parish)

Census Tract

Father of GIS

Roger Tomlinson

Which of the following is used to secure a partial use of a piece of property?

Easement

A noise exposure level of 85 decibels would be considered normal for:

City traffic from inside a car

A certified planner owes diligent, creative, and competent performance of work executed in pursuit of his/her client or employers interest. Such performance, however, shall always be consistent with:

His/her faithful service to the public interest.

Which of the following tells a reader both why a plan was developed and where it might lead?

Goals

Comparison of numerical indicators or a goals-achievement matric may be useful at which stage of the planning process?

Plan evaluation

For which of the following demographic groups is a mail survey instrument most effecting?

The elderly

A previously undeveloped property on the urban fringe, often farmland.

Greenfield

A certified planner shall contribute to the development of, and respect for, his/her profession by improving knowledge and techniques, making work relevant to solution of community problems, and:

Increasing public understanding of planning activities.

A certified planner adhered to specific rules of conduct, and understands that the institute will enforce compliance with them. If one fails to adhere to these rules, he/she could receive sanctions, the ultimate being:

The loss of his/her certification.

In local government “line” positions are those that?

Provide service to the public.

Historically, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Louisville were all

Founded on rivers

The primary purpose of the census, as indicated in the US Constitution, is to provide the basis for?

Fair apportionment among the states of seats in the US HOR.

When testing statistical hypotheses, results that are unlikely to have occurred by chance are called?

Significant

Which of the following does not improve the probability that a sample is accurate?

Decrease the sample size.

The 1858 design of the Central Park of NYC was prepared by?

Which of the following would most appropriately be the function of the federal government?

Air pollution control

The Quick Response Urban Travel Estimation Techniques and Transferable Parameters (1987) shows that the average vehicle trip per unit is the lowest for which of the following?

Retirement homes

What program was seen as a complement to the revised Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program?

UDAG

What can be described as the square root of the variance?

Standard Deviation

Hawaii was the first state to do which of the following?

Adopt statewide land-use zoning

In some communities a zoning hearing master typically does which of the following?

Presides over rezoning proceedings that are treated as quasi-judicial actions

Which of these law cases involved the issue of signage and therefore the First Amendment of the United States?

The City of Los Angeles vs. Taxpayers for Vincent

What city had the first US Skyscraper build in 1885?

Chicago

The creation of the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act involved which person?

Herbert Hoover

Euclidian Zoning can be described as which of the following?

zoning that has uniform restrictions to each class of building or kind of building in each zoning district

In financing and budgeting, what can be described as, "local governments preparing the specifications for a needed public works project that is than constructed by the private sector and leased to the local government, eventually becoming the governments"

Lease-Purchase

The statistical technique which provides an estimate of one variable based on the linear function of another can be defined as:

Regression

This is the supply of freshwater under the earth's surface in an aquifer or soil that forms the natural reservoir for our use.

Groundwater

What growth management technique involves the landowner to sell the development rights to a developer who then uses those development rights to increase the density of houses on another piece of property at another location?

Transfer of Development Rights

Which of the following can be described as a way to provide a single service when it comes to financing and budgeting?

Special District

According to the Highway Capacity Manual (1994), if a roadway has a "C" service level, which of the following is true?

stable flow, moderate delays, and the speed is determined by traffic

According to the American Planning Association, what is a planner's "primary obligation".

To serve the public interest

Which Section of the Code of Ethics deals with "aspirations"?

1

Which of the following cases involved the issue of adult uses and zoning?

City of Renton v. Playtime Theaters Inc.

Which is true of the Chicago Metropolis 2020?

headed by members of the Commercial Club's Civic Committee

a small professional staff

the purpose of creating a new regional plan to address growth issues between the city and the suburbs

What was created by the Federal Government to eliminate distressed public housing?

HOPE VI

What does TOD stand for?

Transit Oriented Development

San Diego County is the sixth most populous county in the US, its population of 2.8 million is expected to rise to almost what population by 2030?

4 million

According to the US Census, a Metropolitan Statistical Area can be described as which of the following?

a geographic entity defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget for the use by federal statistical agencies that are based on the concept of a core area with a large population nucleus

According to the AICP, Procedures, Under the Code of Ethics and Conduct, which of the following is NOT true?

A person may not file a charge anonymously. All charges must be accompanied by a name to resolve any disputes or denials of any claims.

What type of organizational approach has the planner serving a specific client of group and doing so openly?

Advocacy Planning

Hoshin Planning is.....

a type of strategic planning

A programmable thermostat might saves you as much as what percent on your heating costs?

20

Sir Ebenezer Howard wrote which of the following? Who wrote

"Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform"

What movement was Paul Davidoff involved with

Advocacy Planning

Shift-Share analysis involves all but which of the following choices?

examines only two components of regional employment growth (National growth, and Industry Mix).

What can be described as a technique used to figure out what steps in a project will be most critical to the project moving forward?

Critical Path Method

This is a form of citizen participation that can be described as an intensive, interactive problem solving exercise.

Charrette

What is the next big development in Manhattan's Far West Side?

Hudson Yards

What does the MWD represent in Southern California?

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

In the ongoing case over the Hudson River cleanup and General Electric, the Superfund Law plays a major role, what is true of the Superfund law?

1. A Federal Government program

2. Created to clean up the nations uncontrolled hazardous waste sites

4. Says the polluter pays for the site cleanup, and if no one can be identified, Superfund money can be used to pay for the cleanup.

Which of the following is an alternative to optimization for cases where there are multiple and competing objectives in which one gives up the idea of obtaining a "best" solution?

Satisficing

This technique can be described as a method of assessing project alternatives by weighing these alternatives according to a group of citizen goals.

Goals-achievement Matrix

What is the name given to those born between 1965 and 1980?

Generation X

Approximately, how many commercial cell towers are there in the United States, as of 2003?

100,000

In 1954, The Council of Government movement began in....

Detroit

According to the ITE's "Parking Generation", which of the following has a peak parking space factor of 1.0 - 5.0 spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. GLA?

A shopping center (larger than 600,000 sq.ft.)

What was published in 1909?

Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago

Which Act was adopted in 1972?

Federal Water Pollution Control Act

Coastal Zone Management Act

What was the first law to institute federal protection for preserving archaeological sites?

Antiquities Act of 1906

In Chicago, this group is headed by members of the Commercial Club's Civic Committee and a small professional staff with the purpose of creating a new regional plan to address growth issues between the city and the suburbs

Chicago Metropolis 2020

What is "Cash Out Free Parking"?

A program offering commuters the cash equivalent of subsidized parking provided they use another means of transportation.

While living in the "garden suburb" of Forest Hills Gardens, New York, this person worked on their "neighborhood unit"?

Clarence Perry

According to the Highway Capacity Manual (1994), if a roadway has a service of level of "F" which of the following would describe it?

very low speeds, frequent stoppages, volume is greater than capacity

What does Section C of the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct deal with?

Procedures

Lester Brown Book

"Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

Lester Brown states in his book, "Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble", that which country will demand more food in 2030 than the entire world produces today?

China

According to the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, how many years back should you look when deciding to accept a new planning assignment that conflicts with a position you advocated publicly for a previous client?

3

What was created in Los Angeles County in 1922?

The first Regional Planning Commission

Whitehead, R.L. A Proposed Ground Water Quality Monitoring Network for Idaho. Open File Report 79-1477, October 1979, U.S. Geological Survey, is a reference best described by which of the following?

most useful in assisting state and local governments determine water quality throughout Idaho

Which program is likely to be used to address the goal of establishing an impact fee ordinance?

capital improvement program

According to the Highway Capacity Manual (1994), there are different roadway levels of service, which service level can be described as "free flow, high operating speed with no delays"?

A

What is the term for the rock usually underlying unconsolidated geologic materials?

Bedrock

An Environmental Assessment can be defined as which of the following?

a less extensive environmental review used by various agencies to determine whether or not an EIS will be required

According to the EPA, which of the following is the best definition of effluent?

a discharge of pollutants into the environment

Approximately, how much land does the Federal government hold in trust for Native Americans?

56 million acres

Which of the following are the key principles of the AICP Code of Ethics?

1. Responsibility to the public
2. Responsibility to employers and clients
3. Responsibility to the profession and to colleagues
4. Self-responsibility

According to the AICP, Procedures, Under the Code of Ethics and Conduct, which of the following is NOT true?

A person may not file a charge anonymously. All charges must be accompanied by a name to resolve any disputes or denials of any claims.

In Portland, Oregon, they have created an incentive for __________, by giving developers a height bonus for installing them on commercial buildings.

green roofs

A Federal research lab estimates that wind power could provide ____ percent of the nation's energy needs.

20

In January 2007, women in Mexico City demonstrated in the streets against the rising price of _______.

Corn