AICP Practice Exam Questions and Answers

In what year did the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) begin?

Which best describes Urban Service Areas?

Who was the father of modern ecology?

Where was the first historic preservation ordinance enacted?

What percentage of urban residing American’s live in poverty, according to the 2000 Census?

Who designed Riverside, Illinois, the first model for all future American suburban land planning?

What is the programming period for a CIP?

Which of the following cases was found to violate the first amendment’s freedom of speech?

Scenario

You are a planner in a city that has recently opened a new shelter for homeless people. The shelter opens each evening during the winter and provides a place for people to sleep during the night in dormitory-style rooms with cots. Some community members would like the shelter closed because they feel that the large number of people who congregate on the sidewalks near the shelter as they wait for it to open pose a threat to public safety. Your planning director decides to address these concerns by classifying the shelter as a hotel. The planning director knows that the zoning ordinance specifies that a hotel must provide private sleeping quarters, which the shelter does not. By classifying the shelter as a hotel, the planning director is taking steps to close the shelter based on the ground that it is in violation of the zoning ordinance. Suppose you have reviewed the situation carefully and believe that the director made an unethical decision. What might you do?

What organization did Peter Calthorpe found?