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comprehensive planning
Process determining community goals and aspirations for community development.
Exurbs
Commuter Town, urban community, most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelehood
Interstate Highway Act
1956 bill creating 41,000 miles of highway, largest public works project at the time.
Eminent Domain
Where the government takes someones land without their consent, compensates for it, and it is used for a greater good of the community.
urbanization
Physical growth of urban areas as a result to global change. People moving from rural areas to urban areas, migrating.
Federal Housing Administration
Administration created in 1934, improve housing standards and conditions, provide insurance for mortgages. Stabilize mortgage market.
Council of Governments
Regional bodies that exist through out the United States, serve multiple counties, adress municiple and regional planning issues.
incremental ism
Step by Step changes rather then one big grand plan, which aims at realizable improvements on an existing situation.
hinterland
The land or district that is behind a coast or a river
Streetcar Suburb
A community where it's growth and development were strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a means of transportation.
World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
The Chicago Worlds Fair which featured architecture including white city using Italian Architecture to influence building design.
Standard State Zoning Enabling Act
1920s act which laid the foundation for planning and zoning in the U.S.
gridiron plan
City plan where streets runs as right angles to each other forming a grid. New Haven Colony.