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What are the specific concerns of planning? |
Avoiding dense development, and avoiding overly scattered development. Easy access to public services, convenient infrastructure. Preserving/improving what already exists. |
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What are useful abilities for planners? |
The ability to understand the political environment around oneself |
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What led to urban growth? |
National population growth, industrial revolution (side effect), low-cost transportation, railroad and steamboat tech. |
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How did urban density evolve? |
Less spaces between buildings, higher buildings, congested streets. Elevators and steel-frame construction also caused this. |
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What are urban trends in the 20th century? |
Decentralizing technologies emerged, opposite to the 19th century. Inventions like the automobile allowed for people to live farther from urban centers in suburbs. Same with the telephone and national highways. |
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What caused the rush to the suburbs? |
Affordable mortgage finances, high employment, high wages, high automobile ownership. |
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What are the trends since the 2000s? |
Population decline of the nation's largest cities came to a halt, due to high immigration. |
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What is the Boomburg Phenomenon? |
A city of 100,000 or more whose population has grown at double digit rates for over a decade, and is not the central city of a metropolitan area. |
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How was planning part of early 19th century urban growth? |
It happened with minimum planning due to the Constitution giving the public control over development of land within their boundaries. |
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Where does planning occur in government? |
Within a framework of legislation. |
