Day one

PUB 670 Public Planning and Change Management: Questions & Key Terms

Critical Thinking Questions

1. What is planning?

2. What is opportunism and how does it morally impact on decisions made by folks involved with planning process? Please explain and give two examples

3. Why do we need planning? How does the words interconnectedness and complexity explain the need for planning? Give examples of each.

4. What is power? How does planning empower the organization to bridge the gap from where it is now to where it wants to be? Please explain and give at least two examples.

5. What is Urbanization? Explain

6. What is public good? Why is it the mission of public planning? Give two examples.

7. What is a stakeholder? And why is it important to the planner? Explain

Key Terms: Please define and give one example

1. cottage industries

2. mass housing

3. low-cost transportation

4. port cities

5. tenement

6. congestion

7. immigration

8. decentralization

9. suburbs

10. urban sprawl

11. suburban sprawl

12. limited-access highway

13. the Great Depression

14. Interstate Highway System

15. Baby boom

16. Mailbox income

17. Central-City Shrinkage

18. Globalization

19. Reurbanization