Aicp pl - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Describe Quantitative data and research and describe how it can be applied in planning - Planning analysis, particularly for research studies, breaks down into two basic forms: quantitative and qualitative research. Qualitative research is the analysis of descriptive information (words as opposed to numbers). Quantitative data is numerical and often expressed as a percentage or statistical term (average, median, standard deviation, etc.). Quantitative research is necessary for statistical a...

How the Other Half Lives (1890) - John Riis' book that told the public about the lives of the immigrants and those who live in the tenements Cities in Evolution (1915) - Patrick Geddes' book on urban theory-sustainable development, ʻThink Global, Act Localʼ, can be attributed to; recognized the important role of cities in the evolution of culture and maintained that a city has to be understood and integrated in the context of its biological and geographical region (interdependence of hu...

Describe Quantitative data and research and describe how it can be applied in planning - Planning analysis, particularly for research studies, breaks down into two basic forms: quantitative and qualitative research. Qualitative research is the analysis of descriptive information (words as opposed to numbers). Quantitative data is numerical and often expressed as a percentage or statistical term (average, median, standard deviation, etc.). Quantitative research is necessary for statistical ana...

Agrarian Philosophy - (1800s) Based on agricultural way of life; Thomas Jefferson and John Hector St. John. Laissez Faire Philosphy - (1800s) Advocated for a free market economy; Adam Smith. Public Health Movement - (late 1800s to 1900s) Examples included New York State Tenement House Act of 1901, which banned the construction of dark, poorly ventilated buildings in New York State. Garden City Movement - (1890s) Self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing p...

Patrick Geddes - Regional Planning John Muir - Planning, Sierra Club George McAneny - Zoning Benton MacKaye - Appalachian Trail David Lilienthal - Public Power George Norris, Senator - Tennessee Valley Authority Edward Bassett - Zoning Lawrence Veiller - Modern housing codes George Perkins Marsh - American Environmentalism Saul Alinsky - Modern Community Organizing Clarence Arthur Perry - The Neighborhood Unit Concept Harland Bartholomew - C...