What does the first section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? –
Answer Principles to which we aspire
What does the second section of the AICP Code of Ethics
cover? – Answer Our rules of conduct
What does the third section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover? –
Answer Our code procedures
What does the fourth section of the AICP Code of Ethics cover?
- Answer Planners convicted of serious crimes – automatic
suspension of certification
How many sections does the AICP Code of Ethics have? –
Answer 4
How many aspirational principles are there in the AICP Code? –
Answer 3
How many rules of conduct are there in the AICP Code? –
Answer 26
How many code procedures are there? – Answer 17
How many points are there under part 4 of the code? – Answer
4
What do the code’s aspirational statement address? – Answer 1.
responsibility to the public
- responsibility to clients and employers
- responsibility to profession and colleagues
What is a Metes and Bounds survey – Answer 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’? – Answer 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 – Answer 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 – Answer 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 – Answer 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 – Answer 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