AICP exam preparation containing
questions and answers
What does the first section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answer - Principles to which we aspire
What does the second section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answer - Our rules of conduct
What does the third section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answer - Our code procedures
What does the fourth section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answer - Planners convicted of serious
crimes - automatic suspension of certification
How many sections does the AICP Code of Ethics have? - Answer - 4
How many aspirational principles are there in the AICP Code? - Answer - 3
How many rules of conduct are there in the AICP Code? - Answer - 26
How many code procedures are there? - Answer - 17
How many points are there under part 4 of the code? - Answer - 4
What do the code's aspirational statement address? - Answer - 1. responsibility to the public
2. responsibility to clients and employers
3. responsibility to profession and colleagues
What is a Metes and Bounds survey - Answer - A system or method of describing land from English
Common Law that uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to
define and describe the boundaries of a parcel of land. The boundaries are described in a running prose
style, working around the parcel in sequence, from a point of beginning, returning back to the same
, point. (The term "metes" refers to a boundary defined by the measurement of each straight run,
specified by a distance between the terminal points, and an orientation or direction. A direction may be
a simple compass bearing, or a precise orientation determined by accurate survey methods. The term
"bounds" refers to a more general boundary description, such as along a certain watercourse, a stone
wall, an adjoining public road way, or an existing building.)
What is 'satisficing'? - Answer - A decision-making strategy that attempts to meet criteria for adequacy,
rather than to identify an optimal solution. Satisficing occurs in consensus building when the group looks
towards a solution everyone can agree on even if it may not be the best.
Housing Act of 1934 - Answer - Created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Federal
Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Part of the New Deal, designed to stop the tide of bank
foreclosures on family homes. (Also known as the Capehart Act)
Housing Act of 1937 - Answer - Tied slum clearance to public housing. Povided for subsidies to be paid
from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies (LHA's) to improve living conditions for low-
income families. (Also known as the Wagner-Steagall Act).
Housing Act of 1949 - Answer - Created the Urban Redevelopment Agency and gave it the authority to
subsidize three fourths of the cost of local slum clearance and urban renewal.
-Provided federal financing for slum clearance programs associated with urban renewal projects in
American cities (Title I),
-Increased authorization for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance (Title II),
-Extending federal money to build more than 800,000 public housing units (Title III)
-Fund research into housing and housing techniques
-Permitting the FHA to provide financing for rural homeowners.
Housing Act of 1954 - Answer - Modified urban redevelopment and renewal by requiring communities
engaged in such activities to adopt code enforcement, relocation, and other measures that would
prevent the further spread of urban blight.
Popularized the phrase "urban renewal"; made these projects more enticing to developers, by among
other things, providing FHA-backed mortgages.
questions and answers
What does the first section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answer - Principles to which we aspire
What does the second section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answer - Our rules of conduct
What does the third section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answer - Our code procedures
What does the fourth section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - Answer - Planners convicted of serious
crimes - automatic suspension of certification
How many sections does the AICP Code of Ethics have? - Answer - 4
How many aspirational principles are there in the AICP Code? - Answer - 3
How many rules of conduct are there in the AICP Code? - Answer - 26
How many code procedures are there? - Answer - 17
How many points are there under part 4 of the code? - Answer - 4
What do the code's aspirational statement address? - Answer - 1. responsibility to the public
2. responsibility to clients and employers
3. responsibility to profession and colleagues
What is a Metes and Bounds survey - Answer - A system or method of describing land from English
Common Law that uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to
define and describe the boundaries of a parcel of land. The boundaries are described in a running prose
style, working around the parcel in sequence, from a point of beginning, returning back to the same
, point. (The term "metes" refers to a boundary defined by the measurement of each straight run,
specified by a distance between the terminal points, and an orientation or direction. A direction may be
a simple compass bearing, or a precise orientation determined by accurate survey methods. The term
"bounds" refers to a more general boundary description, such as along a certain watercourse, a stone
wall, an adjoining public road way, or an existing building.)
What is 'satisficing'? - Answer - A decision-making strategy that attempts to meet criteria for adequacy,
rather than to identify an optimal solution. Satisficing occurs in consensus building when the group looks
towards a solution everyone can agree on even if it may not be the best.
Housing Act of 1934 - Answer - Created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Federal
Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Part of the New Deal, designed to stop the tide of bank
foreclosures on family homes. (Also known as the Capehart Act)
Housing Act of 1937 - Answer - Tied slum clearance to public housing. Povided for subsidies to be paid
from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies (LHA's) to improve living conditions for low-
income families. (Also known as the Wagner-Steagall Act).
Housing Act of 1949 - Answer - Created the Urban Redevelopment Agency and gave it the authority to
subsidize three fourths of the cost of local slum clearance and urban renewal.
-Provided federal financing for slum clearance programs associated with urban renewal projects in
American cities (Title I),
-Increased authorization for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance (Title II),
-Extending federal money to build more than 800,000 public housing units (Title III)
-Fund research into housing and housing techniques
-Permitting the FHA to provide financing for rural homeowners.
Housing Act of 1954 - Answer - Modified urban redevelopment and renewal by requiring communities
engaged in such activities to adopt code enforcement, relocation, and other measures that would
prevent the further spread of urban blight.
Popularized the phrase "urban renewal"; made these projects more enticing to developers, by among
other things, providing FHA-backed mortgages.
