Exam 1: The Nature of Planning

Sim City is computer software that is designed to display, store and manipulate information about spatially distributed geographically referenced data and information.

The Community Land Use Game (CLUG) brought the idea of city building to the masses.

CAD stands for which of the following?

Satellite imagery facilitates the analysis of man-made and natural change occuring on earth.

Successive limited comparisons' is a characteristic of which planning approach?

A factor that contributes to a 'digital divide' is

Public planning is generally concerned with ensuring consistency between development and standards set out in legislative instruments.

Planning necessarily involves restraint on the actions of individual landowners.

Which approach replaces grand plans with a modest step by step approach which aims at realizable improvements to an existing situation

The purpose of a GIS is to serve as a map-making system

Which type of planning promotes the interests of the disadvantaged?

Equity planning focuses primarily on land use and physical planning.

Equity planning extends the focus from land use and physical planning to address:

The private planning process involves all of the following characteristics except:

Consensus building, public hearing and charrettes are tools used to promote

The "digital Divide" indicates that some people do not have access to computers or other forms of information technology.

Findley and Farber define which of the following as, "the use of scientific data to define the probability of some harm coming to an individual or a population because of exposure to a substance or situation.

If you decide to work in an industrial plant that uses chemicals in its processes and you were warned in advance about the dangers of exposure, you have assumed which of the following?

The use of GIS has drastically decreased over the years.

The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that property cannot be taken without just compensation.