AICP Prep Mix Lot Exam Questions and
Answers Graded A+
Incentive Zoning - Correct answer-is intended to provide a reward-based system to
encourage development that meets established urban development goals.[13]
Typically, the method establishes a base level of limitations and a reward scale to
entice developers to incorporate the desired development criteria. Incentive zoning
allows a high degree of flexibility, but can be complex to administer.
Aristotle - Good City - Correct answer-He called Hippodamus the Father of City
Planning
Aristotle (384-322 BCE) describes the happy life intended for man by nature as
one lived in accordance with virtue, and, in his Politics, he describes the role that
politics and the political community must play in bringing about the virtuous life in
the citizenry
Aristotle begins the Politics by defining its subject, the city or political partnership.
Doing so requires him to explain the purpose of the city. (The Greek word for city
is polis, which is the word that gives us English words like "politics" and "policy").
Aristotle says that "It is clear that all partnerships aim at some good, and that the
,partnership that is most authoritative of all and embraces all the others does so
particularly, and aims at the most authoritative good of all. This is what is called
the city or the political partnership". In Greece in Aristotle's time the important
political entities were cities, which controlled surrounding territories that were
farmed. It is important to remember that the city was not subordinate to a state or
nation, the way that cities are today; it was sovereign over the territory that it
controlled. To convey this, some translations use the word "city-state" in place of
the world "polis." Although none of us today lives in a polis , we should not be too
quick to dismiss Aristotle's observations on the way of life of the polis as irrelevant
to our own political partnerships.
The citizens of a political community are partners, and as with any other
partnership they pursue a common good. In the case of the city it is the most
authoritative or highest good. The most authoritative and highest good of all, for
Aristotle, is the virtue and happiness of the citizens, and the purpose of the city is
to make it possible for the citizens to achieve this virtue and happiness.
Dean Kamen - Correct answer-Inventor of the 2001 Segway Human Transporter or
HT or IT - stupid question
The Buffalo Commons: What is the name of the proposal that involves tearing
down the farm fences in the Great Plains and replanting native grass and restore
,the buffalo? - Correct answer-1. A result of the population decline in the Great
Plains
2. Tearing down of the farm fences
3. replant native grass and restore the buffalo
is a conceptual proposal[clarification needed] to create a vast nature preserve by
returning 139,000 square miles (360,000 km2) of the drier portion of the Great
Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the American bison ("buffalo"), that
once grazed the shortgrass prairie. The proposal would affect ten states: (Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
The Poppers propose that a significant portion of the region be gradually shifted
from farming and ranching use. They envision an area of native grassland, of
perhaps 10 or 20 million acres (40,000 or 80,000 km²) in size. One way to achieve
this would be through voluntary contracts between the Forest Service and Plains
farmers and ranchers, in which owners would be paid the value of what they would
have cultivated over the next 15 years. In the meantime, they would be required to
plant and reestablish native Shortgrass prairie grasses and forbs, according to a
Forest Service-approved program. At the end of the period, the Forest Service
would purchase their holdings, while granting owners a 40-acre (160,000 m2)
, homestead. Since their initial article in 1987, the Poppers have acknowledged that
many other parties have very important roles to play. They do not see the federal
government as central as they first did.
average size of large auto racing tracks (e.g.: NASCAR) in the United States -
Correct answer-400- over 1,000 acres
another dumb question
1978 - Correct answer-In 1978, the American Society of Planning Officials
(ASPO) merged with the American Institute of Planners (AIP) to form the
American Planning Association (APA).
PPBS - Correct answer-Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) is
in effect an integration of a number of techniques in a planning and budgeting
process for identifying, costing and assigning a complexity of resources for
establishing priorities and strategies in a major program and for forecasting costs,
expenditure and achievements within the immediate financial year or over a longer
period.
United States Department of Defense leaders use their Planning, Programming,
and Budgeting System to link operational requirements with financial obligations.
Department of Defense branches typically divide the process into plans, programs
Answers Graded A+
Incentive Zoning - Correct answer-is intended to provide a reward-based system to
encourage development that meets established urban development goals.[13]
Typically, the method establishes a base level of limitations and a reward scale to
entice developers to incorporate the desired development criteria. Incentive zoning
allows a high degree of flexibility, but can be complex to administer.
Aristotle - Good City - Correct answer-He called Hippodamus the Father of City
Planning
Aristotle (384-322 BCE) describes the happy life intended for man by nature as
one lived in accordance with virtue, and, in his Politics, he describes the role that
politics and the political community must play in bringing about the virtuous life in
the citizenry
Aristotle begins the Politics by defining its subject, the city or political partnership.
Doing so requires him to explain the purpose of the city. (The Greek word for city
is polis, which is the word that gives us English words like "politics" and "policy").
Aristotle says that "It is clear that all partnerships aim at some good, and that the
,partnership that is most authoritative of all and embraces all the others does so
particularly, and aims at the most authoritative good of all. This is what is called
the city or the political partnership". In Greece in Aristotle's time the important
political entities were cities, which controlled surrounding territories that were
farmed. It is important to remember that the city was not subordinate to a state or
nation, the way that cities are today; it was sovereign over the territory that it
controlled. To convey this, some translations use the word "city-state" in place of
the world "polis." Although none of us today lives in a polis , we should not be too
quick to dismiss Aristotle's observations on the way of life of the polis as irrelevant
to our own political partnerships.
The citizens of a political community are partners, and as with any other
partnership they pursue a common good. In the case of the city it is the most
authoritative or highest good. The most authoritative and highest good of all, for
Aristotle, is the virtue and happiness of the citizens, and the purpose of the city is
to make it possible for the citizens to achieve this virtue and happiness.
Dean Kamen - Correct answer-Inventor of the 2001 Segway Human Transporter or
HT or IT - stupid question
The Buffalo Commons: What is the name of the proposal that involves tearing
down the farm fences in the Great Plains and replanting native grass and restore
,the buffalo? - Correct answer-1. A result of the population decline in the Great
Plains
2. Tearing down of the farm fences
3. replant native grass and restore the buffalo
is a conceptual proposal[clarification needed] to create a vast nature preserve by
returning 139,000 square miles (360,000 km2) of the drier portion of the Great
Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the American bison ("buffalo"), that
once grazed the shortgrass prairie. The proposal would affect ten states: (Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
The Poppers propose that a significant portion of the region be gradually shifted
from farming and ranching use. They envision an area of native grassland, of
perhaps 10 or 20 million acres (40,000 or 80,000 km²) in size. One way to achieve
this would be through voluntary contracts between the Forest Service and Plains
farmers and ranchers, in which owners would be paid the value of what they would
have cultivated over the next 15 years. In the meantime, they would be required to
plant and reestablish native Shortgrass prairie grasses and forbs, according to a
Forest Service-approved program. At the end of the period, the Forest Service
would purchase their holdings, while granting owners a 40-acre (160,000 m2)
, homestead. Since their initial article in 1987, the Poppers have acknowledged that
many other parties have very important roles to play. They do not see the federal
government as central as they first did.
average size of large auto racing tracks (e.g.: NASCAR) in the United States -
Correct answer-400- over 1,000 acres
another dumb question
1978 - Correct answer-In 1978, the American Society of Planning Officials
(ASPO) merged with the American Institute of Planners (AIP) to form the
American Planning Association (APA).
PPBS - Correct answer-Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) is
in effect an integration of a number of techniques in a planning and budgeting
process for identifying, costing and assigning a complexity of resources for
establishing priorities and strategies in a major program and for forecasting costs,
expenditure and achievements within the immediate financial year or over a longer
period.
United States Department of Defense leaders use their Planning, Programming,
and Budgeting System to link operational requirements with financial obligations.
Department of Defense branches typically divide the process into plans, programs
