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AICP exam prep

What does the first section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - ANS - Principles to which we aspire

What does the second section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - ANS - Our rules of conduct

What does the third section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - ANS - Our code procedures

What does the fourth section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? - ANS - Planners convicted of serious crimes - automatic suspension of certification

How many sections does the AICP Code of Ethics have? - ANS - 4

How many aspirational principles are there in the AICP Code? - ANS - 3

How many rules of conduct are there in the AICP Code? - ANS - 26

How many code procedures are there? - ANS - 17

How many points are there under part 4 of the code? - ANS - 4

What do the code's aspirational statement address? - ANS - 1. responsibility to the public

• responsibility to clients and employers
• responsibility to profession and colleagues

What is a Metes and Bounds survey - ANS - 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'? - ANS - 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 - ANS - 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 - ANS - 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 - ANS - 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 - ANS - 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.

Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 - ANS - Established the Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Hoshin planning - ANS - Strategic planning/strategic management methodology, used at Toyota, HP, etc.

Who designed Columbia, MD? - ANS - James Rouse, 1967; planned community that consists of ten self-contained villages

US Population in 2000 - ANS - 281,421,906

The Council of Government movement started... - ANS - In Detroit in 1954

Oligotrophic lakes - ANS - Deep lakes with low supply of nutrients and thus little organic matter

Dissimilarity Index - ANS - measures the intensity of segregation of two groups of people across space (typically for a city or metro area suing census tracts or block groups). Value between 0 and 1 (or 100), "the percent of people from group A that would have to move to another tract in order for the proportion of residents in all tracts to equal the proportion in the metro area as a whole"

Isolation Index - ANS - Measures the percentage of the same-group population in the census tract where the average member of a racial/ethnic group lives (the probability that a member of one group will meet another member of the same group in their census tract). Value between 0 and 100 (higher = more segregation)

Exposure Index - ANS - Measures the percentage of other-group population in the census tract where the average member of a racial/ethnic group lives (% of average race A's neighbors are race B)

Entropy Index - ANS - Compares the composition of all groups (more than 2) at the same time, ranges from 0 to 1 (or 100) compares the actual distribution in a tract or city to an abstract situation of complete diversity across all groups

Simpson's D - ANS - Also known as the 'index of diversity', ranges from 0 (complete homogeneity) to 1 (complete evenness); only maximizes to 1 if you have infinite numbers of categories. Considered roughly comparable to the entropy index

Gini coefficient - ANS - Measure of inequality - can be used to measure the distribution of nearly any variable. Based on the Lorenz curve, which relates the cumulative distribution of the variable of interest on the Y-axis to the cumulative distribution of social units of observation (e.g. households) on the X-axis. The Gini Coefficient is the ratio of the area above the curve and below the diagonal to the whole triangle

Cohort-Component Method - ANS - Population projection method using birth, death, and

migration rates. Steps:

• calculate death rates
• project survivors
• project births
• project migration

Shift-share - ANS - Analyzes strengths and weaknesses of a specific region's industries. Looks at the changing mix of activities and at whether activities are shifting toward or away from the study area (attempts to account for the movement of jobs into or out of the local economy due to factors affecting the local economy when projecting employment).

Economic Base Analysis/Theory - ANS - Breaks industry into two categories: basic industries are those exporting from the region and bringing wealth from outside; non-basic (or service) industries support basic industries. Economic Base Theory asserts that the means of strengthening and growing the local economy is to develop and enhance the basic sector.

Location quotient - ANS - Economic base analysis method - a number derived by comparing percent employment in a place with percent employment in a reference economy/larger region (e.g. nationwide). If an industry has a greater share than expected of a given industry, then that