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Urban Planning

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show existing & new bldg, parking, streets, trails, & landscape plantings  
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What type of compliance should be considered as part of urban design?   show
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show wrote Chicago Plan in 1909 w/ Edward Bennett; plan featured waterfront parks & prominent civic bldg & applied principles of monumental city design & City Beautiful movement  
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LeCorbusier   show
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What type of urban design system was promoted by LeCorbusier?   show
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show example of modernism as promoted by the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (1928-1959)  
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Frank Lloyd Wright   show
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show Wright presented utopian visioiin of the landscape of America called "Broadacre City" where each home was situated on at least 1 acre & someone in each household owned a car  
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show "Urbanism as a Way of Life" 1938  
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What did Loius Wirth stand for?   show
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James Rouse   show
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Who used the model of a colonial village to build a city? what city?   show
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show introduced festival market places inclduing Faneuil Hall (Boston), Iner HArbor (Baltimore), & South Street Seaport (NYC)  
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Kevin Lynch   show
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What did "Image of the City" explain?   show
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show networks of paths, edges, districts, nodes, & landmarks if they are not confusing  
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Jane Jacobs   show
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show mix of uses, short blocks, & pedestrian-scale development to create vibrant cities & inc safety w/ continual activity & eyes on the street  
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show advocate for bldg underground to leave nature relatively undisturbed  
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show transportation terminals, retail businesses, housing, & employment centers serving a population of 100,000 or more  
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Where was Soleri's major development proj?   show
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What is demonstrated by the Soleri development in Arcosanti, AZ?   show
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show Social Life of Small Urban Spaces 1980 - reports findings of a study of factors that contribute to the success of urban spaces  
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What factors contribute ot the success of urban spaces (Whyte)?   show
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show environmental psychology & sociology in urben design  
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show Advocate for New Urbanism or neotraditional design  
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What was encouraged by Andres Duany?   show
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What is an example of this type of development?   show
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show "Making City Planning Work" 1985 from San Fran describes what it takes to change American Cities  
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show "Great Streets" describing great streets aroun the world  
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show relative ht of bldg., interesting facades, presence of trees, orientation of windows, design of intersections, presence of places to stop & rest, & space for leisurely walking  
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Joel Garreau   show
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Robert Lang   show
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Philadelphia   show
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show designed by Governor Francis Nicholson in 1695 (alos planned Williamsburg); featured radial streets & compact urban design  
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Washington, D.C.   show
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show James Oglethorpe 1733 featured a central public square  
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show plan designed by Judge Woodward 1807; never fully completed was to be developed as interlocking hexagons  
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show Frederiack Law Olmstead & Calvert Vaux 1868 first planned suburban community stressing rural as opposed to urban amenities 7 residents could commute to Chicago by rail  
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How was Riverside designed?   show
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show 1885 Chicagopossible to build high rise b/c availability of steel  
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First Safety Elevator   show
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show 1st Englich Garden City & stimulus to New Town movement in US Greenbelt towns; construction began 1903  
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show Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr 1911; influenced Clarence Perry's neighborhood unit concept  
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show John Nolen planner & Mary Emery city founder & benefaactor;features include short blocks & mixture of rental & owner-occupied housing; foreshadows contemporary New Urbanism movement  
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show suburb of Cincinnatti 1923 and finished in 1926  
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show Clarence Stein & Henry Wright 1924-1928 planned neighborhood designed; built by City Housing corporations in Queens  
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show Stein & Wright in 1928 influenced by Ebenezer Howard's Garden City; forerunner to New Deal's Greenbelt towns; features-aleeys behind houses, cul-de-sacs, communal gardens, & separation of vehicular & pedestrian access  
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Greenbelt towns   show
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Levittown, NY   show
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show Construction began 1947 finished 1949; Post-WWII planned suburb w/ a range of housing types; first privately financed, completely planned community ever built in US  
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New Towns   show
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show (New Town) Fairfac Cty Board of Supervisors establish Virginia's first residential planned community zone in 1962; full-scale, self-contained New Town located app 18 mls from Washington D.C.  
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show (New Town) built by James Rouse in 1963, lcated halfway bewteen Washington & Baltimore, featuring some class integration & neighborhood unit principle  
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Seaside, FL   show
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show 1893 Chicago; Danirel Burnham designed fairgrounds using principles of "City Beautiful" movement; B/c bldgs at the fair were painted bright white it cam to be known as "White city"  
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Regional Plan for NYC and Its Environs   show
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show 1939 modernist exposition that touted the automobile & solving problems through science  
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Design guidelines   show
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What is contained in site plan review package?   show
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What is reviewed on a site plan?   show
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Design review   show
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What features of urban design influence participant's reactions?   show
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What is a visual preference survey?   show
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What is the mapping approach?   show
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City Beautiful Movement   show
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What is incorporated in a City Beautiful Design?   show
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Monumental Design   show
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Who were major proponents of Monumental Design?   show
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Garden City   show
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Garden suburb   show
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Sustainable Design   show
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show locally available materials  
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Context sensitive design   show
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Activity Node   show
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Gridiron   show
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show popular in mid- to late 1900s; widely used in 1929 Radburn plan - make streets safer b/c no through traffic  
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Boulevard   show
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show Designated entrance corridors that signal a new destination or neighborhood ; Ex Chinatown  
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show sight lines or routes that direct attention to an object of significance such as rivers, mountains, or historic monuments  
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Street connectivity   show
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Public realm   show
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Public Spaces   show
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