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WorksheetsPlanning 2 (Credits to Reviewer 2015)
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 47mins
Rebirth of classical towns; plazza planning in Venice; grandeur in civic structure and public spaces; streets were wide regular and circumferential with the piazza at the center as in Italy.
Renaissance
Medieval
Byzantine
Romanesque
He suggested the idea of "Linear City from Cadiz, Spain across Europe through St. Petersburg, Russia in which he proposed that the logic of linear utility should be the basis of all city layout.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ebenezer Howard
Daniel Burnham
Arturo Soria Y Mata
He believed the use of open space as element of urban system and the urban park as an aid to social reform.
Clarence Perry
Frederick Olmstead
Clarence Stein
Arturo Soria Y Mata
It combined the advantages of the town by way of access and all the advantages of the country by way of the environment without any of the disadvantages of either.
New Towns
New Urbanism
Garden Cities
Neighborhood
According to him, the city was a totally designed system of main circulation arteries, a network of parks and clusters or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers incl. city hall, a country court house, a library, an opera house, a museum, and a plaza.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ebenezer Howard
Daniel Burnham
Arturo Soria Y Mata
Approaches town planning as a science which includes planning and design as well as contributions from the sociologist, geographer, economist, demographer, politician, social anthropologist, ecologist, etc. all these he assembles into a total rational and human approach which he calls "Ekistics" - the science of human settlements.
Lewis Mumford
Constantine Doxiadis
Daniel Burnham
Leonardo da Vinci
He developed the neighborhood principle based on the natural catchment area of community facilities such as primary schools and local shops.
Clarence Perry
Frederick Olmstead
Clarence Stein
Arturo Soria Y Mata
He proposed "La Ville Radieuse (Radiant City)" anchored on objective to decongest centers of cities by increasing their densities by building high on small part of the total ground area.
Leonardo da Vinci
Arturo Soria Y Mata
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
A center of activity, distinguished by virtue of its active function; it is a district hub of activity.
Town center
Nodes
CBD
Urban core
District visual object that help in orienting people in the city and help identify an area
Districts
Nodes
Landmarks
Edges
The concept of the center is probably the single most important idea with which the designer works because of the following reasons except for one which is:
It gives the city "imageability or a strong image".
Nodes are points, the strategic spots in a city into which an observer can enter, and which are the intensive foci to from which he is traveling.
Emphasize all parts of the city
Lively, pedestrian-friendly downtowns with a mixture of stores, merchants, services, and public spaces.
Refers to all cities regardless of their population density and to municipalities with a population density of at least five hundred persons per hectare
Urban area
Component city
Independent city
Highly urbanized city
Refers to an area with at least 200,000 people and income of Php 50M or more
Component city
Metropolitan area
Highly-urbanized city
Independent component city
Rectilinear land division during ancient times is a result of what?
Herding
Defense
Plow farming
Politics
Radburn represented a dramatic advance in community planning. It introduced the following except this one.
Introduced a hierarchy of roadways
Deliberately separated pedestrian and vehicular traffic
Houses were oriented towards the streets.
Introduced the concept of the residential superblock.
First documented settlement with streets with a narrow main street heading uphill and a wider terminal which might be a social spot.
Jericho
Khriokitia
Catalhuyuk
Damascus
Ancient cities in Indus Valley well-known for their impressive, organized, and regular layout and had advanced and extensive drainage system
Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
Thebes and Memphis
Eridu and Jericho
Damascus and Babylon
The first noted urban planner who introduced the grid system and the agora
Arthemus
Hippodamus
Miletus
Spartacus
This affected the urban design of most towns during the medieval ages
Wars
Religion
Politics
Feudalism
What became a major element of town planning and urban design during the Renaissance and Baroque periods?
Arts and architecture
Universities
Coastal towns
World trade
The first university town
Paris
Versailles
Vienna
Karlsruhe
A Spanish "Laws of the Indies" town classified as civil
Pueblo
Mission
Poblacion
Presidio
The first garden city designed by Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker in 1902
Welwyn
Letchworth
Hampstead
London
This urban quality offers users a choice of experiences thru forms, uses, and meanings
Variety
Robustness
Vitality
Legibility
Environments which can be used for many different purposes supported by factors such as building depth, access and building height
Variety
Robustness
Vitality
Legibility
An environment where there's a variety of sense experiences that users can enjoy
Robustness
Richness
Visual appropriateness
Personalization
A street pattern used in highly mountainous sites following the contours of the topography
Meandering
Geometric
Cul-de-sac
Loops
One disadvantage of this street pattern is the eventual narrowness of certain lot frontages especially along the curvature.
Meandering
Geometric
Cul-de-sac
Loops
The termination of a district or a seam between two communities
Pathways
Districts
Edges
Landmarks
The most important space found within the rules of the Leyes de las Indias
Parish Church
Town Plaza
Fort
Tribunal
The most practical of street layout
Curvilinear
Grid
Meandering
Circumferential
A geographic area within which residents conveniently share the common services and facilities needed in the vicinity of their dwellings
Neighborhood
Organization
Street
Land
A spatial development concept that suggests that by investing heavily in capital intensive industries in the largest urban centers, government in developing countries can stimulate economic growth that will spread outward to generate regional development the economies of scale found in the largest cities
Growth Pole Concept
Central Place Theory
Concept of Propulsive Firms
Urban Growth Model
The rehabilitation of deteriorated inner-city housing with favorable locations relative to the CBD
Gentrification
Yuppification
Urban Renewal
Urban Seam
Patrick Geddes coined this term to mean the conglomeration of town aggregates, describing the waves of population to large cities followed by overcrowding slum formation.
Backflow
Broadacre
Amorphic
Connurbation
The maximum distance a consumer is willing to travel to avail of a good or service beyond which people will look to another center
Hierarchy of services
Market area analysis
Market range
Core periphery
Which is not included in the elements of human settlements?
Nature
Man
Network
Community
He wrote the book "The Disappearing City" and later "Broadacres".
Lucio Costa
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
Daniel Burnham
Growth in the proportion of a population living in urban areas
Urbanization
Demography
Urban sprawl
Connurbation
An urban planning approach that puts priority on people and environment wherein the model is the traditional city neighborhood that existed before where workplaces, shops and houses where within walking distance of each other
Garden City
New Urbanism
Letchworth
Welwyn
He postulated that land use diminish intensively in reverse relationship to increased distance.
von Thunen
William Alonso
Lowdon Wingo Jr.
Robert Malthus
He postulated that population increases in a geometric ration while food production increases arithmetically and that unless natural catastrophes, war or sexual restraint control population increase, worldwide famine or war will follow.
von Thunen
William Alonso
Lowdon Wingo Jr.
Robert Malthus
Suggested an agropolitan approach of concentrating development activities in rural districts with from about 50,000 to 150,000 people.
Friedman and Douglas
Ebenezer Howard
Doxiadis
Kevin Lynch
He prepared the Greater London Plan of 1944.
Abercrombie
Raymund Unwin
Barry Parker
Lewis Mumford
Describes scenery or elements beyond the actual design that become an important or integral part of the composition. In Chinese gardens it is described as jie jing, in Japanese landscapes shakkel, and in Italian design as integrazione scenica
Borrowed view
Structuring elements
Points of transition
Hierarchy
The practice of forming beds of low-growing foliage plants, all of an even height, in patterns that resemble a carpet both in intricacy of design and in uniformity of surface. Designs can vary from geometrical shapes to images and lettered inscriptions.
Lawn
Carpet bedding
Meadow
Parterre
Literally translates as "green cloth". It is a swath of lawn, usually rectilinear in shape, used to strengthen a visual axis or focus attention on an object. It can define an edge, serve as a form of contrast between the smooth texture of the ground plane and the surrounding plant materials, or function as an element of transition between buildings and the natural landscape.
Tapis Vert
Parterre
Arbor
Espalier
