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Urban Planning Flashcards: Zoning Concepts & City Development Theory

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What is the concept of separating areas for different uses, such as residential from industrial areas, known as?
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Which urban theorist critiqued the idea that cities should be planned based on experience rather than compartmentalized areas?
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What are the four components of safe cities or sidewalks according to Jane Jacobs?
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What was the focus of modern planners that led to streets becoming ambiguous and 'void'?
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How does the definition of poverty vary?
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What do the terms 'ou-topos' and 'eu-topos' mean in the context of utopia?
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What are the key principles of Ebenezer Howard's Garden City concept?
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What was Jane Jacobs' critique of the Garden City concept?
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What did Sir Charles Booth's survey/map of Victorian London illustrate?
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Who was Jacob Riis and what impact did his work have?
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What was the purpose of the settlement house movement led by Jane Addams?
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What was the early urban planning assumption about the 'culture of poverty'?
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What was the purpose of the 1879 tenement housing law?
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What does urban physical determinism suggest about social problems?
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What was W.E.B. Du Bois' focus regarding the black community in the U.S.?
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What categories did Du Bois use to describe diversity in the 7th Ward?
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How does heterogeneity challenge the 'culture of poverty' concept?
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What is Fordism and how did it change manufacturing?
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What does the national growth system involve?
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What is the feminization and racialization of labor?
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What does the social construction of skill imply?
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What is a vertical orientation in niche markets?
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How does capital mobility affect local labor value?
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What is flexible specialization in production?
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What does decentralization and capital mobility allow in industries?
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What is capital immobility?
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What is the opposite of capital immobility?
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What is the impact of automation on union work?
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What are the spatial consequences of deindustrialization?
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What was the purpose of the Public Works Administration under the New Deal?
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How did the GI Bill affect African American veterans?
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What was the 2-tiered system of public housing?
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What did the Equal Opportunity in Housing Acts aim to achieve?
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What was the initial legal status of public housing structures?
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What is 'white flight' in the context of urban areas?
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What was the post-WWII suburbanization trend?
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What was the practice of redlining in housing?
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What were racially restrictive covenants in suburban housing?
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What were the design and planning problems with Pruitt-Igoe public housing?
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What is the myth of Pruitt-Igoe according to Katharine Bristol?
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What is the homeownership mortgage tax deduction?
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What problems did the federal housing voucher program face?
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What does the term 'revanchism' refer to in policy?
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What is a 'revanchist city'?
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What was the impact of eviction on low-income families?
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What were the hidden problems of the 'care not cash' welfare assistance?
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What factors contribute to homelessness according to physical determinism?
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What is gentrification?
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What are indicators of gentrification?
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What are the key propositions on consumption-driven gentrification?
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What is the rent gap theory?
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What does housing precarity refer to?
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What is the affordability crisis in housing?
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How does housing precarity relate to homelessness?
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