Deck 16: Community and Economic Development

Question 1

The Kennedy and Johnson administrations were initially responsbile for expanding the federal government's urban policy focus beyond housing.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

President Nixon's "New Federalism" restored vertical administrative control by creating a number of new categorical programs.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A key feature of the Community Development Block Grant is the increased flexibility it provides local decision makers.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Community Development Block Grant funds are allowed to be used for a variety of purposes from economic developent to code enforcement.

Question 5

President Carter's "new partnership" sought to reduce the private sector's role in urban policy.

Question 6

President Carter's Urban Development Action Grant was popular with developers and business interests.

Question 7

The Urban America Report advocated unfettered market as a solution to urban ills.

Question 8

President Reagan believed government intervention was counterproductive.

Question 9

There is abundant evidence that local taxes and incentives play a significant role in attracting growth.

Question 10

The key element in the success of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Main Street Program is its grassroots nature.

Question 11

All brownfields have a high degree of contamination associated with them prior to redevelopment.

Question 12

Which of the following is a transportation demand management tool?

A) Speed Humps
B) Traffic Circles
C) Chicanes
D) High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes

Question 13

Downs' principle of 'triple convergence' explains why…

A) Why Mixed-use reduces traffic.
B) How free parking increases single occupancy vehicle traffic.
C) How land use and transportation are linked.
D) Why increased road space eventually fills with increased traffic

Question 14

Which piece of transportation related legislation reinforced the importance of metropolitan transportation planning in addition to resurrecting the MPO?

A) Urban Mass Transportation Act (UMTA)
B) Federal Aid Highway Act
C) Intermodal Surface and Transportation Efficiency ACT (ISTEA)
D) Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-First Century (TEA-21)

Question 15

Multimodal transportation consists of

A) Highways
B) Transit Facilities
C) Bicycle Paths
D) All of the Above

Question 16

What is difficult to capture in terms of transportation statistics and impacts?

A) Public Transit
B) Telecommuting
C) Single Occupant Vehicle Travel
D) Rail Travel

Question 17

A difficulty associated with the land use and transportation relationship is

A) Land use agencies have little or no transportation responsibility
B) The separatism of both types of agencies is reinforced by the different skills and interests of planners and transportation engineers
C) The independence of local governments
D) All of the above

Question 18

Which is a benefit of a transit-oriented development (TOD)?

A) Enhanced transit ridership
B) Automobile dependence
C) Increased parcel size
D) None of the above

Question 19

Speed humps, traffic circles and chicanes are examples of

A) Transit-oriented developments (TODs)
B) Transport Demand Management (TDM)
C) Traffic Calming
D) Congestion Charging

Question 20

The idea that every driver seeks the easiest route is an illustration of

A) Transport demand management
B) Congestion Equity
C) Traffic calming
D) Downs' principle of 'triple convergence'

Question 21

Using parking as a policy instrument is an effective tool of

A) Transport demand programs
B) Traffic Calming
C) Road pricing
D) Automobile Dependence

Question 22

What tool directly works to shift rush hour highway travel to other transportation modes or to off-peak periods?

A) Downs' principle of 'triple convergence'
B) Congestion pricing
C) Traffic calming
D) All of the above

Question 23

The younger President Bush's prominent urban policy contribution was:

A) The incorporation of faith based organizations.
B) The Enterprise Zone Program.
C) The Model Cities program.
D) The concept of Community Empowerment.

Question 24

The Empowerment Zone strategy was adopted under which administration?

A) Ronald Reagan
B) George H.W. Bush
C) Bill Clinton
D) George W. Bush

Question 25

"An organization of property owners in a commercial district who tax themselves to raise money for neighborhood improvement" describes which of the following?

A) Community Development Corporation
B) Enterprise Zone
C) Business Improvement District
D) Social Justice Organization

Question 26

Two major elements of President Nixon's urban aid strategy were

A) CDBG program and the model cities program
B) Model cities program and general revenue sharing
C) General revenue sharing and new federalism
D) General revenue sharing and the CDBG program

Question 27

Creative federalism' was embraced by the policies of

A) Nixon
B) Carter
C) Johnson
D) Reagan

Question 28

What was at the center of Clinton urban policy?

A) Community Empowerment
B) Faith-based organizations
C) Economic recovery
D) Urban Development Action Grants

Question 29

The purpose of this bill was to provide additional financial and technical assistance to enable cities of all sizes to implement new proposals and also revitalize blighted areas

A) Urban Development Action Grants
B) EZ/EC Programs
C) New federalism
D) Model Cities Program

Question 30

Which program offers funding to both state and local governments for housing assistance and supportive services for individuals diagnosed with HIV/AIDS?

A) HOPWA
B) HOME
C) CDBG
D) EZ/EC

Question 31

Which program is designed to revitalize community commercial districts through the context of historical preservation?

A) HOME
B) EZ/EC
C) Main Street
D) HUD

Question 32

Which president created the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives?

A) Clinton
B) Bush
C) Nixon
D) Johnson

Question 33

How many Enterprise Communities (EC) received $3 million each in 1995?

A) 50
B) 75
C) 95
D) 105

Question 34

President Carter established which national agenda for the 1980s?

A) Urban America
B) Program for Economic Recovery
C) War on Poverty
D) Model Cities Program