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Quiz 1-ARCH 2040
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the two things that are significant for the act of dwelling? | Rivers (Tigris and Euphrates) and buildings |
| What is significant about Gobeklitepe? | Earliest temple known and first religious monument |
| What is the pattern of early settlements? | Organic, no space between buildings, connected buildings, no streets or public spaces |
| What is axis mundi? | A marker that indicates a local culture's center, connected the heavens and the earth. |
| How were ziggurats formed? | On top of one or more platforms, built structures on top of each other which created a large mound. |
| What was known as the oldest city? | Jericho |
| How did architecture (settlements and cities) first started? | Agriculture |
| Two rivers that Mesopotamia was between | Tigris and Euphrates |
| Green Area | "Fertile Crescent" |
| When does the ancient history begin? | The invention of writing about 3100 BC by Sumerians |
| Ziggurat | A temple that rose on one or more platforms became the monumental expression of Sumerian cities, towering above the city's one story fabric. |
| Axis Mundi | A sacred marker indicating a local culture's center of the world. |
| Catalhoyuk | A transitional settlement between nomadic and agricultural ways of life. |
| Eridu | Oldest settlement in the region |
| What and where was the first ziggurat? | The White Temple of Anu in Uruk. |
| What city is the largest in Bronze-Age Mesopotamia? | Ur |
| Are there any possible urban developments that are not based on religious structures? | The water systems and roads |
| How is democracy related to urban planning? | The grid system |
| Where are agora and acropolis located? | Agora is located in the middle of the city and acropolis is the highest point of the city. |
| When was gridded urban plan originated? | Around 5th century BC |
| Name the two cardinal axis utilized in Roman town planning? | Cardo and Decumanus |
| The Indus Valley | Cities without monuments |
| Mohenjo-daro | The ancient Harrapan culture have been the first urban society to intentionally avoid building monument. |
| The Greek city-Polis | The City of Public Space |
| Acropolis | Head of the city dedicated to the gods |
| Agora | Served as the prime public space of the Greek polis |
| What was agora used for? | Market functions, religious ceremonies, athletic events and theatrical performances. |
| Orthogonal Planning | Greeks applied this planning to device public and residential zones. |
| Per strigas | Scheme used to design Paestum in Southern Italy |
| Hippodamus of Miletus | Utilized the grid planning for his "social theory of urbanism" that took into consideration the differences among religious, public and private zones. |
| Caput Mundi | "Head of the World" |
| Mythical founding of Rome | April 21, 753 BCE |
| The two cardinal coordinates that initiated laying down the plan in Roman settlements | Cardo and Decumanus |
| Cardo | north-south axis |
| Decumanus | east-west axis |
| Pompeii | City that was destroyed in 79CE due to eruption of Vesuvius, stayed intact under a thick layer of ash. |
| What's the relation of European medieval cities to ancient roman city planning? | The use of rivers as protection and as a barrier, the cities are built close to rivers. |
| Do all European medieval cities have the same growth pattern? | No, they grow based off the civilizations needs. Ex: population change, fear of getting attacked, advancements, etc. |
| What's the significance of city walls? | Protection from outside forces and creates a separation for the city. |
| Florence, Italy | Founded in 59 BC by Julius Caesar for political and strategic reasons, but could also been built for the reign of Augustus. |
| Verona, Italy | "City of the God" devoted their city to God |
| Seville, Spain | "City with layers" and important for Umayyad Caliphate |
| What is common in medieval Seville and Damascus city growth? | Walls, fortified walls, and fortification of layers |
| When do we first see cities designed from scratch based on a given plan? | 7th century during Kufah |
| What is the connection of perspective and ideal city design? | The eye |
| What is anthropomorphism? How it relates to Renaissance city design. | Applying the ideal human body to city designs |
| What is the significance of the treatises written on architecture during the Renaissance? | How ideal life should be |
| Forum | linked to Roman cities for public spaces for political discourse and religious activities. |
| Damascus, modern day Syria | Greek grid system combines with organic Ottoman development to create the urban structure, spaces often filled up with organic development. |
| Ideal city panels | Shows the idea of a city different than organic medieval urban developments, stand alone buildings that are organized around plazas. |
| Anthropomorphism | An interpretation of non-human entities in terms of human or personal characteristics. |
| First drawn example for an ideal city? | Filarete's Sforzinda |
| Palmanova, Italy | Designed by architect Vincenzo Scamozzi |
| In what ways cities address the need of an industrialized society? | Crime and health problems accompanied urban overcrowding, inspiring new health, police, and prison systems and improved infrastructures for sewer and water management. This produced progress. |
| What is Haussmann's plan for Paris known for? | Wider streets |
| Where is Ringstrasse located in Vienna's plan? | Goes around the city, the walls and fortification |
| What are common characteristics of Spanish colonial cities? | The grid system |
| Metropolis | "Mother City" in Greek |
| Key Elements of Industrial Metropolis | Rapid Immigration, expedient housing solutions, and anonymous culture of society |
| Bastion | Structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. |
| Glacis | In military engineering, is an artificial slope as part of a medieval castle or in early modern fortresses. They may be constructed of earth as a temporary structure or of stone in more permanent structure. Vienna used this |
| The Laws of the Indies | Are the entire body of laws issued by the Spanish Crown for the American and the Asian possessions of its empire, they regulated social, political, religious, and economic life in these areas. |
| Amsterdam | Founded in the 12th century as a fishing town, autonomous urban pattern, medieval city walls surrounded with a moat. |
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