PLANNING
Class COMPRE
EXAM FINALS
Status Not started
Subject PLANNING
URBAN - Of , relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city; large city;
large amount; significantly developed area; distance between buildings is
very small
HIPPODAMUS OF MILETUS - Inventor/Father of Formal City Planning. He
made the Hippodamian Plan or the grid city to maximize winds in the
summer and minimize them in winter
RURAL - Low population, often agriculturally based; of or relating to the
country and the people who live there instead of the city
ARISTOTEL - Provided the foundation for the concept of Intergenerational
Equity
EBENEZER HOWARD - Wrote the book Garden Cities of Tomorrow;
addressed population and pollution that came about by the industrial
revolution by creating garden cities
EBENEZER HOWARD - The concept of the “Garden City” was proposed by
which urban planner in the late 19th century?
DON ARTURO SORIA Y MATA - Made the concept of a Linear City, which
has many parallel and specialized functions
PLANNING 1
, DON ARTURO SORIA Y MATA - Which urban planner advocated for a city
layout structured along linear utility lines, emphasizing efficient
transportation and infrastructure integration?
DANIEL BURNHAM - Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s
blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim
high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once
recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing,
asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
SIR PATRICK GEDDES - Introduced the notion of a region. Became the
Father of Regional Planning; Biologist, sociologist, and geographer. Used
observation and rational methods; instead of gridiron planning, used
conservative surgery
SIR PATRICK GEDDES - Introduced the term conurbation. Emphasized the
relationships of people and cities, thus the city-region term. Used the
rational planning method of Survey Analysis
LE CORBUSIER - Created the Radiant City. Modernist, futuristic, and
orderly. Criticized because he tried to solve congestion with more
congestion
CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT - Emphasized beauty and aesthetics. Think
monuments, grand buildings, parks, perfect landscapes, lakes, and circular
road systems roman aqueducts
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI - Wrote the De Re Aedificatoria: Ten books of
planning and design principle. It states that “growth is characterized by a
star-shaped form”
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI - He introduced the Ideal Cities and redesigned
Rome’s water supply.
URBAN RIDGE - What do you call the area between a city and the outskirts?
CIRCULAR PATTERN - This pattern revolves around the urban core and
development follows radiating spokes of main highways or mass transit
routes. Higher density tends to form around the spokes with lower density
development in between.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT - Champion and proponent of urban
decentralization; included social services in the forms of schools, trains,
PLANNING 2
Class COMPRE
EXAM FINALS
Status Not started
Subject PLANNING
URBAN - Of , relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city; large city;
large amount; significantly developed area; distance between buildings is
very small
HIPPODAMUS OF MILETUS - Inventor/Father of Formal City Planning. He
made the Hippodamian Plan or the grid city to maximize winds in the
summer and minimize them in winter
RURAL - Low population, often agriculturally based; of or relating to the
country and the people who live there instead of the city
ARISTOTEL - Provided the foundation for the concept of Intergenerational
Equity
EBENEZER HOWARD - Wrote the book Garden Cities of Tomorrow;
addressed population and pollution that came about by the industrial
revolution by creating garden cities
EBENEZER HOWARD - The concept of the “Garden City” was proposed by
which urban planner in the late 19th century?
DON ARTURO SORIA Y MATA - Made the concept of a Linear City, which
has many parallel and specialized functions
PLANNING 1
, DON ARTURO SORIA Y MATA - Which urban planner advocated for a city
layout structured along linear utility lines, emphasizing efficient
transportation and infrastructure integration?
DANIEL BURNHAM - Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s
blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim
high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once
recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing,
asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
SIR PATRICK GEDDES - Introduced the notion of a region. Became the
Father of Regional Planning; Biologist, sociologist, and geographer. Used
observation and rational methods; instead of gridiron planning, used
conservative surgery
SIR PATRICK GEDDES - Introduced the term conurbation. Emphasized the
relationships of people and cities, thus the city-region term. Used the
rational planning method of Survey Analysis
LE CORBUSIER - Created the Radiant City. Modernist, futuristic, and
orderly. Criticized because he tried to solve congestion with more
congestion
CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT - Emphasized beauty and aesthetics. Think
monuments, grand buildings, parks, perfect landscapes, lakes, and circular
road systems roman aqueducts
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI - Wrote the De Re Aedificatoria: Ten books of
planning and design principle. It states that “growth is characterized by a
star-shaped form”
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI - He introduced the Ideal Cities and redesigned
Rome’s water supply.
URBAN RIDGE - What do you call the area between a city and the outskirts?
CIRCULAR PATTERN - This pattern revolves around the urban core and
development follows radiating spokes of main highways or mass transit
routes. Higher density tends to form around the spokes with lower density
development in between.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT - Champion and proponent of urban
decentralization; included social services in the forms of schools, trains,
PLANNING 2
