3. EXAM TOPICS OUTLINE [note: major portion of exam guide]

Due to the size of this portion of the exam guide, we have put each section on its own page.  Part I begins below:

I.  Fundamental Planning Knowledge (25%) ~37-38 questions
II. Plan Making & Implementation (30%) ~ 45 questions
III.  Areas of Practice (30%) ~45 questions
IV.  Leadership, Administration & Management (5%) ~7-8 questions
V.  AICP Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct (10%) ~15 questions


I. Fundamental Planning Knowledge [25%]

A. History of planning, planning movements, and influences on planning

B. Foundational legal principles and decisions

C. Theories of and about planning

D. Patterns of human settlement

E. Statutory basis of planning

F. General terminology, practices, and principles of related professions

G. Natural, social, and economic systems

H. Core values of planning 


A. History of Planning, Planning Movements & Influences 

IMPORTANT PLANNERS

APA NATIONAL PLANNING PIONEERS

15 URBANISTS WHO AFFECTED PLANNING

APA NATIONAL PLANNING LANDMARKS (1986-2012)

APA “NEW” HISTORY TIMELINE

HISTORY TIMELINE OF PLANNING PROFESSION

APA HISTORY

PLANNING HISTORY

100 ESSENTIAL BOOKS OF PLANNING

GLOSSARY

https://www.completecommunitiesde.org/glossary-of-terms/

PLANNING MOVEMENTS

APA "Blue Book" Planning Movements (pp. 68-96)

Aristotle, Hippodamus & City Defense

The Landscape Tradition

Public Health Movement (Chap 2, p.5)

Settlement Movement (Jane Addams)

Garden Cities

City Beautiful (Daniel Burnham)

Practical Planning

City Efficient  

City Humane (Chap. 2, page 5)

Regionalism, 1910 to 1940

City Functional Movement  (Chap. 2, page 5) 

Advocacy and Equity Planning

Environmental Concerns

Statewide Land-Use Planning Programs

Redesigning Downtown  (p. 87) 

Renewed Neighborhoods, New Towns, and New Urbanism 

New Regionalism 

Environmental Justice

Sustainability

Healthy Cities and Communities 

Healthy Planning


B. Foundational legal principles and decisions 

APA LAW CASES - EXPLAINED

U.S CONSTITUTION & AMENDMENTS 

10th AMENDMENT 

PLANNING LAW 

APA-IOWA PLANNING LAW WEBINAR (~2 Hours)

EARLY CASES (1876 - 1928)

SUPREME COURT CASE SUMMARIES

1875 – Munn v Illinois

1887 – Mugler v Kansas 

1896 – United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co

1909 - Welch v. Swasey

1922 - Pennsylvania Coal Company v. Mahon 

1925 - Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. 

1954 - Berman v. Parker 

1974 - Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas

1975 - Young v. American Mini Theatres 

1976 - Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Corp 

 1977 - Penn Central Transport Co. v. New York

 1980 - Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego

1980 - Agins v. City of Tiburon

1986 - Nollan v. California Coastal Commission

1987 - First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale v. Los Angeles County 

1992 - Lucas v. South Carolina Coast Council

1994 - Dolan v. City of Tigard

 2001 - Palazzolo v. Rhode Island 

 2002 - Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency 

2004 - Kelo v. City of New London

 2004 - Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A 

 2005 - City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams 

 2005 - San Remo Hotel v. San Francisco

2006 - Rapanos v. United States

2006 - S.D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection

2007 - Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency

2007 - Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corporation

2013 – Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District

2015 – Reed v. Town of Gilbert

LEGAL CASES

1887 - Mugler v Kansas re Police Power & Takings  

1915 - Hadacheck v. Sebastian

2004 - Kelo Case

1972 - Golden v. Town of Ramapo

1977 - Penn Central

1972 - Sierra Club v Morton

1978 - TVA vs. Hill 

1975 - Petaluma

1976 - Livermore

1972 - Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Webb Development Co.

2005 - Supreme Court Cases on Planning

2013 - Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District

2015 - Reed v. Town of Gilbert

GENERAL

TAKINGS

AESTHETICS

CLAWBACK LAWS

SIGN REGULATION

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996 


 C. Theories of and about planning

THEORIES OF PLANNING PRACTICE

EVOLUTION OF CITIES (Central Place; Concentric; Sector; Multiple Nuclei) 

COLLABORATIVE RATIONALITY 

CONCENTRIC ZONE MODEL (1925: Ernest Burgess) 

CENTRAL PLACE THEORY (1933: Walter Christaller) 

MULTIPLE NUCLEI THEORY (1945: Chauncey Harris & Edward Ullman) 

BID RENT THEORY (1960: William Alonso) 

CITY AS A GROWTH MACHINE THEORY (1987: John Logan & Harvey Molotch) 

Advocacy planning 

ADVOCACY PLANNING

Advocacy and Equity Planning 

ADVOCACY PLANNING 

EQUITY PLANNING 


D. Patterns of human settlement 

GENERAL 

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 


E. Statutory basis of planning 

HOW A BILL BECOMES LAW 

Federal 

State 

DILLON’S RULE 

HOME RULE 

STANDARD STATE ZONING & CITY PLANNING ENABLING ACTS 

National Level Planning 

FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAMS

TRANSPORTATION 

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 

Multi-State Planning 

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA)

PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY

MEGAREGION / MEGAPOLITAN PLANNING 

MULTISTATE HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION AGREEMENT 

WASHINGTON METRO AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY 

VARIOUS MULTI-STATE ORGANIZATIONS

INTERSTATE COMPACTS

MULTISTATE MPOs 

State Level Planning 

STATE GROWTH MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS 

APA POLICY GUIDE – REDEVELOPMENT

STATE LEVEL PLANNING 

SMART GROWTH 

APA GROWING SMART GUIDEBOOK 

EPA 

Maryland’s Smart Growth Revisited 

Smart Growth Legislative Guidebook Summary

Principles of Smart Growth

Getting to Smart Growth

Other APA Smart Growth articles

Smart Growth vs New Urbanism 

TEA-21 STATEWIDE PLANNING 


F. General terminology, practices, & related professions 

PARAMETERS OF A GRADING PLAN


G. Natural, social, and economic systems 

Demographics 

DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS 

POPULATION FORECASTING (pp. 53 - 55 & 61) 

POPULATION PROJECTION METHODS (Linear, Exponential, Modified, Ratio)

 POPULATION PROJECTION METHODS (Cohort Component)

 POPULATION ESTIMATION METHODS

 APA – PROJECTIONS & DEMAND ANALYSIS

CENSUS - GENERAL 

CENSUS - AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY (between Census)

CENSUS - U.S. CENTER OF POPULATION 

2010 CENSUS BRIEF

POPULATION GROWTH OUT FROM CBD 2000-2010

DEMOGRAPHIC GENERATIONS


H. Core values of planning

II. Plan Making and Implementation [30%]

A. Conducting research and acquiring knowledge

B. Spatial analysis

C. Public engagement

D. Communication

E. Preparing to plan

F. Formulating plans and policies

G. Plan implementation

H. Monitoring and assessment 

I. Project or program management

J. Social justice