4. PLANNING DEFINITION GLOSSARY SITES 

  • Single Topics, Terms & Events
  • Important Planners


PLANNING DEFINITION GLOSSARY SITES

Multiple Topic Glossary

Single Topics, Terms & Events

ADAPTIVE REUSE

APA QN

ADVERSE POSSESSION (aka Squatter’s Rights; compare to Prescriptive Easement)

AFFORDABILITY STANDARD (30% of income)

AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES

SPARK THAT IGNITES A CITY?

AGING IN PLACE

AGRICULTURAL ZONING

AMBIENT & EFFLUENT STANDARDS

AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY ACT (ADA; 1990)

ANTIQUITIES ACT (1906)

AQUIFER 

ASSET MAPPING

AVIATION PLANNING

BABY BOOMERS (1946-1964)

BACK-OFFICE & RELOCATION

BIAS IN STATISTICS

      Social Media Bias

BIG DATA & PLANNING

BILLABLE HOURS (Private Consultant)

BIOPHILIC DESIGN

BLUE ROOF (Roof water storage)

BLUE URBANISM

BOOK VALUE  (Book Value vs Market Value)

BOOMBURBS (Robert Lang)

BOOM-BUST CITY (Los Vegas; See “Cities in Transition”)

BRAINSTORMING

BROADACRE CITY (Frank Lloyd Wright)

BROWNFIELDS

BUILT TO LINES (Build to Line)

BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (BID)

CAPITALIZATION RATE (Net operating income/Property asset value; real estate tax)

CARRYING CAPACITY

CENSUS BLOCK (Smallest unit with 100% tabulated data)

CENSUS GEOGRAPHIES (Various unit sizes tabulated)

CHARRETTE

CHICANE (Traffic Calming)

CITIES IN TRANSITION (Legacy, Gateway, Boom-Bust, 1st Suburbs)

CITY BEAUTIFUL (1893 White City)

CITY EFFICIENT

CITY FUNCTIONAL (1940s Military Industrialization)

CITY HUMANE (1930s Depression)

CLAWBACK (for when economic development commitments aren't lived up to)

CLIMATE ACTION PLAN (see also Hazard Mitigation Plan, Post-Disaster Planning)

CLUSTER ZONING

COHOUSING (emerging - Seniors)

COLONIAS

COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT

COMPLETE STREETS

CONDOS vs CO-OPS

CONGESTION PRICING (Transportation)

CONGREGATE CARE

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS (also known as BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS or BCA)

CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design)

CREATIVE CLASS (Richard Florida; Andres Duany)

CRITICAL PATH METHOD

CROWDSOURCING

CULTURAL URBANISM

DELPHI TECHNIQUE (Public Participation)

DENSITY (Land Use)

DEPENDENT & INDEPENDENT VARIABLE

DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT

DIRECT DEMOCRACY PLANNING

DISSIMILARITY INDEX

DOWNZONING

ECODISTRICT

EDGE CITY (Joel Garreau)

     Tysons Corner (from Edge City to Urban)

EDGELESS CITY (Robert E. Lang; Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis)

EMPOWERMENT MANAGEMENT - 4 phases (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery)

EMPOWERMENT ZONE (Designated distressed area in need of development)

ENTERPRISE ZONE

FAÇADE EASEMENT

FANNIE MAE

FESTIVAL MARKETPLACE (Rouse)

FIRST SUBURBS (e.g. Euclid; see “Cities in Transition”)

FISHBOWL PLANNING (Public Participation)

FIXED COSTS

FLAT ORGANIZATION

FLOODPLAIN (note cross-section terminology)

FLOOR AREA RATIO (FAR)

FOCUS GROUP (Public Participation)

FOODSHED 

FOOD DESERT 

FORM-BASED CODE

FREDDIE MAC

GARDEN CITIES

GATEWAY CITY (e.g. Springfield, MA; see: “Cities in Transition”)

GENERATIONS (DEMOGRAPHIC)

GENTRIFICATION

GINI COEFFICIENT

GIS BUFFER

GOMPERTZ GROWTH CURVE (Population Projection)

GRADING PLAN

GRAY INFRASTRUCTURE (Buildings, Roads, Utilities, Parking)

GRAYFIELD

GREAT NEIGHBORHOODS (APA Criteria)

GREAT PLACES (APA TYPES)

GREAT SOCIETY (LBJ)

GREAT STREETS (APA Criteria)

GREENBELT TOWNS

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

GREEN PORTFOLIO

HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN (see also Climate Action Plan, Post-Disaster Planning)

HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT

HEALTHY CITIES & COMMUNITIES

HEAT ISLAND EFFECT

HERITAGE AREA

HOT LANES

HYPERMARKETS

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (Steam Engine)

JOBS/HOUSING RATIO

KEYNESIAN

LADDER OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION (Sherry Arnstein)

LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND (LWCF)

LANDSCAPE URBANISM

LEGACY CITY (e.g. Detroit; see “Cities in Transition”)

LEED-ND 

LIFESTYLE CENTER (retail)

LIHTC (Low-income Housing Tax Credit)

LIVABILITY

LIVABLE CENTERS INITIATIVE (Transportation)

LOCATION QUOTIENT

LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT (LID)

MALL CHURCH

MARIEMONT (John Nolen; Garden City; Influenced “New Urbanism”)

MCMILLAN PLAN (1901; Washington, D.C.; “City Beautiful”)

MEGACHURCH 

MEGALOPOLIS (Mumford, 1938 & 1961; Gottman, 1957)

MEGAREGIONS

MILESTONE (“Project Management”)

MINNEAPOLIS SKYWAY SYSTEM (Indoor Pedestrian Walkway)

MULTIFUNCTIONALITY (Green, Landscaping) 

MULTIPLIER EFFECT (Economics)

NATIONAL HOUSING ACT (1934)

NATIONAL HOUSING ACT (1949)

NATIONAL HOUSING ACT (1954)

NATIONAL INTERSTATE AND DEFENSE HIGHWAYS ACT (1956)

NATIONAL MONUMENT (1ST: 1906-DEVIL'S TOWER)

NATURAL INCREASE

NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT (Clarence Perry)

NHGIS (National Historical GIS: 1790-2011 Historical Census data)

NON-SAMPLING ERROR

NUISANCE LAWS

OGLETHORPE PLAN (Savannah, GA; 1733; Town Grid & Wards)

ONE WATER (Integrated Water Resource Management)

ORDINANCE OF 1785 (“Public Land Survey System”)

PARKING CASH-OUT PROGRAMS (Subsidized reduced car use)

PARKLETS (Turning Parking Spaces into Parks)

PARKSCORE

PERFORMANCE BOND

PERFORMANCE ZONING

PERSONAL PROPERTY (Movable; Compare vs. Real Property)

PLAN OF CHICAGO (Daniel Burnham; “Burnham Plan”)

POCKET PARK

POLLUTER PAYS PRINCIPLE

POST-DISASTER PLANNING (see also Climate Action Plan, Hazard Mitigation Plan)

POWER CENTER / HYBRID CENTER (retail)

POWER TOWN

PREEMPTION

PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT (compare to “Adverse Possession”; not public lands)

PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION

PRIME & UNIQUE FARMLANDS

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

PRT (Personal Rapid Transit)

PUMA (CENSUS “Public Use Microdata Area”)

PUMS (CENSUS “Public Use Microdata Samples” – sampled from PUMA)

RADIANT CITY (LeCorbusier)

REAL PROPERTY (Land & permanent fixtures/buildings; VS: Personal Property)

REDLINING

REIMAGINING

RELOCALIZATION (Produce locally: energy, food, goods)

RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION (FDR – Greenbelt Towns)

RESILIENCY

RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

RFP vs. RFQ

RIGHT TO FARM LAWS

RIPENESS DOCTRINE

RLUIPA (Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act)

ROLLING STOCK

R VALUE (Energy Insulation)

SAMPLING TYPES (Quota vs Stratified & Cluster)

SATISFICING 

SCHOOL PLANNING

SCHOOL SITING

SECRETARY OF INTERIOR STANDARDS (Historic Preservation)

SECTION 404 (ACOE Dredge & Fill Regulation; Wetlands)

SECTION 701 (1954 Housing Act – Comprehensive Planning)

SECTION 8 HOUSING

SECONDARY CONTAINMENT (Underground Storage Tank; Nuclear Reactor)

SHPO (State Historic Preservation Office)

SHRINKING CITY

SOLE SOURCE AQUIFER

SMART GRID

SMART CITIES

SMART PARKING

SPECIAL ASSESSMENT

SPECIAL DISTRICT (independent governmental unit; sometimes dependent)

SPOT ZONING (often illegal)

SPRAWL (Types, Causes, Impacts)

STAGFLATION

STAGNATION

STANDARD STATE ZONING ENABLING ACT (SSZEA)

STANDARD CITY PLANNING ENABLING ACT (SCPEA)

STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (SIP: Clean Air Act)

STATE PLANNING TYPES (e.g. Gov. Office vs Agency vs Commission)

STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE

STREET CONNECTIVITY

SUNK COSTS

SUPERBLOCKS 

SUPPORTIVE HOUSING

SUSTAINABILITY

SWOT ANALYSIS (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)

TACTICAL/POP-UP URBANISM

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996 (Preemption)

TEMPORARY CITY / POP-UP CITY

THIRD PLACE (Third Space)

THRESHOLD POPULATION

TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load)

TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN (TND)

TRANSECT (Environmental Survey)

TRANSECT ZONING (New Urbanism; Rural-to-UrbanTransect Zoning)

TRANSECT (DUANY) ORIGINS / SIMILARITIES

TRANSPORTATION "SYSTEM" MANAGEMENT (TSM: enhance operational efficiency)

TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL (4-STEP)

TRIAL BALLOON (Testing public reaction)

TRIBAL “TRUST” VS. “FEE SIMPLE LANDS” (Who rules)

TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE (Sustainability)

TURNKEY PARK

UDAG (Urban Development Action Grants)

THE URBAN GENERAL PLAN (T.J. Kent)

URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY (aka Urban Development Boundary)

URBAN PARK AND RECREATION RECOVERY ACT (1978)

URBAN RENEWAL 

URBANISMS (Multiple types explained)

URBANIZED AREA (CENSUS; Urban Area > 50,000)

VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE (Native style, local materials)

VIEUX CARRE COMMISSION (1921)

VIEUX CARRE HISTORIC DISTRICT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieux_Carre_Historic_District

WALKABILITY & WALKING AUDITS (Dan Burden)

WALK SCORE

STREET CONNECTIVITY INDEX

WATER RIGHTS

EASTERN (RIPARIAN “Reasonable Use”)

WESTERN (PRIOR APPROPRIATION “First in Time, First in Right”)

WATERSHED

WAYFINDING

WEB 2.0

WICKED PROBLEM (e.g. Planning for Climate Change)

WHITE CITY (“Daniel Burnham”; Columbian Exposition; Chicago’s World Fair 1893)

WOONERF 

WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT OF 1998 (“Great Society” Jobs Corps revisions)

ZERO LOT LINE

ZOMBIE SUBDIVISION


Planners and people to remember

GENERAL

CHARLES ABRAMS (Post-WWII Housing; NY Housing Authority; Robert Moses critic)

SAUL ALINSKY (“Rules for Radicals”)

ARISTOTLE (City Defense) & HIPPODAMUS (First City Planner)

SHERRY ARNSTEIN (“Ladder of Citizen Participation”)

RICHARD BABCOCK (The Zoning Game)

EDWARD BASSETT (Father of American Zoning; 1st Comp. Zoning Ord. NYC)

ALFRED BETTMAN (Euclid v. Ambler; Cincinnati Plan; 1st ASPO President; SSZEA)

ERNEST BURGESS (Concentric Zone Model)

CONCENTRIC ZONE MODEL

DANIEL BURNHAM (Plan of Chicago – “Make no little plans”)

PETER CALTHORPE (Congress for New Urbanism, TOD)

RACHEL CARSON (“Silent Spring”; 1962)

WALTER CHRISTALLER (Central Place Theory; 1933)

PAUL DAVIDOFF (Advocacy Planning)

ANDRES DUANY (New Urbanism)

RICHARD FLORIDA (The Coming of the Creative Class; 2002)

JOEL GARREAU (“Edge City – Life on the New Frontier”; 1991)

PATRICK GEDDES (Father of Regional Planning)

BARON GEORGES-EUGÈNE HAUSSMANN (Rebuilding Paris)

JEAN GOTTMANN (Megalopolis; 1957) 

EBENEZER HOWARD (Garden Cities of Tomorrow)

JANE JACOBS (“Death and life of Great American Cities”)

LANE KENDIG (“Performance Zoning”)

T.J. KENT (“The Urban General Plan”; 1964)

NORMAN KRUMHOLZ (Equity Planning)

CHARLES L’ENFANT (1791 Design of Washington, D.C.)

ROBERT E. LANG (Boomburbs, Edgeless Cities)

LE CORBUSIER (“Toward an Architecture”; Modern Architecture; Radiant City)

KEVIN LYNCH (The Image of the City)

GEORGE PERKINS MARSH

IAN McHARG (Design With Nature; GIS) 

ROBERT MOSES 

JOHN MUIR (Sierra Club Founder)

LEWIS MUMFORD (“The City in History”; megalopolis)

FRANCIS NICHOLSON (1695, Annapolis, radial streets)

JOHN NOLEN (Mariemont; Influence on “New Urbanism”)

SENATOR GEORGE NORRIS (TVA sponsor, 1933)

JAMES OGLETHORPE (Savannah, GA; Oglethorpe Plan)

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED (Central Park; Riverside)

CLARENCE PERRY (“Neighborhood Unit”)

JOHN WESLEY POWELL (Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States)

JACOB RIIS (“How the Other Half Lives”)

JAMES ROUSE (Malls; Affordable Housing; Festival Marketplaces; Columbia, MD)

DONALD SHOUP (“The High Price of Free Parking”)

HERBERT SIMON ("Satisficing")

CAMILLO SITTE (Greek street layout influence; copying Medieval towns)

PAOLO SOLERI (“Arcology”; 1970 - Arcosanti)

REXFORD “GUY” TUGWELL (“Greenbelt” Towns)

EDWARD ULLMAN (Multiple Nuclei Model; Advocate of Central Place Theory)

CENTRAL PLACE THEORY

LAWRENCE VEILLER (Father of Modern Housing Code; 1901 NYC Tenement Act)

WILLIAM H. WHYTE (The Organization Man; Project for Public Places)

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (“Broadacre City”)