City Planning Model Constructions Terms

Industrial Zone

An area of land set aside for factories and warehouses.

City Zone

An area or district within a city set aside for a specific use.

Commercial Zone

An area of land set aside for for-profit businesses like office

complexes, shopping malls, service stations, and

restaurants.

Residential Zone

An area of land set aside for housing.

Utilities: Water, Electrical,

Natural Gas

An organization that maintains the infrastructure that

generates, transmits, or distributes electricity, water, or gas

from facilities that it owns or operates.

Zoning Density:High, Medium,

Low

Designation of the ratio of building space to open spade
(eg., high-density residential includes high-rise apartment

buildings).

Infrastructure

A public system of services needed by industry,

commercial, and residential zones such as power, water,

transportation, communications and schools.

Transportation Systems

A network of roads, streets, water, or rails that allows the

vehicular movement of people and goods.

Water Sanitation System

A public utility that provides removal of waste water.

High-Tech Industrial

An industry that develops or uses advanced technology

(eg., aerospace, biotech, telecom, robotics).

Municipality

A town, city, or region that has its own local government.

LandFill

A site where waste material has been buried.

Power Plant: Coal, Natural Gas,
Nuclear, Wind, Solar, Bio, etc.

An industrial plant that generates power such as electricity
from another source like burning coal, nuclear reactions, or

flowing water.

Geothermal Energy

An area of land where energy is generated from the heat in

the interior of the earth.

Retail Establishment

A place of business that sells goods such as groceries,

clothing or furniture.

Government Facility

A place that houses government services such as a

courthouse or government offices.

Cultural and Entertainment

Facility

A place such as an art museum, theater, or sports arena.

Service Industry

An industry or facility that provides services rather than
sells goods (for example, banking or communications).

Proportion

The relationship between two or more amounts of a

number or between the parts of a whole.

Inter-Relationships

A connection or association between multiple things.

Connectivity

The direct links or associations between multiple things. In

city design, connectivity refers to the links between

different parts of a city that provide accessibility and easy

transport from one area to another.

City Planning and Design

Prioritizing and placing city services and city features for
maximum benefit to the quality of life for the citizens, the

environment, and the economic future of the city.

Connectivity

Placing infrastructure so that all areas of the city are served

and linked for maximum benefit of citizens, businesses,

industry, safety, education and recreation.

Systems Thinking

Taking into consideration that a system is made up of

individual parts that function in unison or in a cooperative

way that always have an impact on one another.

Scale Model

A physical model, representation or copy of an object that
seeks to maintain the relative proportions (scale factor) of

the physical size of the original object.

Plan Relief

A scale model or relief used by the military to visualize
building projects, fortifications, or campaigns involving

fortification.

Kinetic Energy

The energy an object has due to its motion.

Potential Energy

The energy an object has because of its position, rather

than its motion.

Energy

The ability to do work.

Power

The rate at which energy is transferred, or the amount of

energy transferred in a unit of time (power=energy

transferred/time).

Use of Models for Scientific or

Technological Concepts

Distinguishing between a plan relief and a 3-D architectural

model.

Kinetic and Potential Energy in

Action

Evaluating models in terms of kinetic energy and potential

energy.

Technology of Structural Design

Explaining how buildings are built.

Safe and Appropriate Use of

Tools

Demonstrating and explaining the correct use of tools in

the school environment.

City Design

Communicating how models illustrate the nature of city life

in the future.