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Civic spaces organized around a pinwheel arrangement of streets. ✔Correct Answer-Turbine
Square
Ebenezer Howard's attempt to combine the best of city and country living in his town-country
idea. First put forth in 1898. ✔Correct Answer-Garden City Concept
Smaller towns dependent on larger towns nearby for business. ✔Correct Answer-Satellite
Towns
Proposed by Tony Garnier in 1917. A city plan that included separate zones for residential,
public, industrial, and agricultural uses, linked by separated circulation paths for vehicles and
pedestrians. One of the first plans to emphasize the idea of zoning. ✔Correct Answer-Cite
Industrielle
Regularly planned public open spaces and uniform spacing and setback of buildings. The city of
Philadelphia (established in 1682), along with many other early towns, used this planning
system. ✔Correct Answer-Gridiron Street System
A plot of land about 600ft square. ✔Correct Answer-Ward
A six mile by six mile piece of land. ✔Correct Answer-Township
Townships are divided into 36 1-mile square pieces of land. ✔Correct Answer-Section
Started in Great Britain in the 1940's, it is an extension of the idea that entirely new
communities can be built away from the crowding and ugliness of existing cities. ✔Correct
Answer-New Town Concept
A more recent planning philosophy that attempts to counter the many undesirable aspects of
city development, including suburban sprawl, reliance on the automobile, environmental
deterioration, housing segregation, loss of farmland, and single-use development. ✔Correct
Answer-New Urbanism
A pattern of urban development where the city begins at the junction of two major roads and is
methodically laid out in a grid. ✔Correct Answer-Expanding Grid
,A pattern of urban development where the city grows out of a dense urban core, with
development following the radiating spokes of main highways and mass transit routes out of the
center. ✔Correct Answer-Star Pattern
A pattern of urban development where a large dense urban core is surrounded by other major
urban areas. The areas are linked to the city in the center by major highways. ✔Correct
Answer-Satellite Pattern
A circular road system that connects satellite areas by making it possible to travel between
them without going through the city in the center ✔Correct Answer-Beltway
A pattern of urban development that has no central focus or apparent overall organization
scheme. ✔Correct Answer-Field Pattern
A form of urban development where two or more major urban centers near each other grow
together as the space between is developed. ✔Correct Answer-Megalopolis
The quality of a physical environment that evokes a strong image in the mind of a given
observer. Can be a natural feature or a prominent building or structure. ✔Correct Answer-
Imageability
A way of circulation along which people customarily, occasionally or potentially move. May be a
street, pedestrian walkway, railroad, transit line, or river. ✔Correct Answer-Path
A linear element that forms a boundary between two districts or that breaks continuity. Could
be a shoreline, a line of buildings against a park, a wall, or a similar feature. ✔Correct Answer-
Edge
A two-dimensional area perceived as having some identifying character that distinguishes it
from the surrounding city. Can be perceived from the inside, or can be identified as an element
of the city from the outside. ✔Correct Answer-District
A focal point or center of interest that people can enter. Could be an intersection of paths, a
place where the mode of transportation changes, a plaza or public square, or a center of a
district. ✔Correct Answer-Node
Similar to a node in that it is a reference point, but it is viewed from the exterior and may or
may not be entered. Could be a tower, monument, building, or natural feature. ✔Correct
Answer-Landmark
A concept that minimizes the impact of the car on housing and allows the development of
pedestrian circulation and park space within the block. ✔Correct Answer-Superblock
, Each large parcel of land is designed to have a mix of uses - residential, commercial,
recreational, and open space - and is designed with a variety of lot sizes and densities.
✔Correct Answer-Planned Unit Development (PUD)
Construction that takes place in areas surrounding transit stops; it usually includes a relatively
high density of living units, commercial development, and other support services. ✔Correct
Answer-Transit-Oriented Development
Inspired by the concepts of defensible space. ✔Correct Answer-Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED)
The geographical region of land development that is dependent on or affected by some
surrounding base of population. ✔Correct Answer-Catchment Area
A relatively small area in which a number of people live and share similar needs and desires in
housing, social activities, and other aspects of day-to-day living. ✔Correct Answer-
Neighborhood
Include such places as schools, shops, fire stations, places of worship, post offices, and
recreational centers. ✔Correct Answer-Public Facilities
Deals with issues of spacing between people, territoriality, organization of space, and
positioning of people in the space, as related to the culture of which they are apart. ✔Correct
Answer-Proxemics
A place with defined boundaries in which a standing pattern of behavior occurs at a particular
time; the place may also contain objects that support the behavior. ✔Correct Answer-
Behavior Setting
Refers to the need to lay claim to the spaces we occupy and the things we own. ✔Correct
Answer-Territoriality
Roads that have the lowest capacity and provide direct access to building sites. ✔Correct
Answer-Local Street
Connect local streets with large arterial streets. Intersections with local streets may be
controlled with stop signs, while intersections with arterial streets will be controlled with stop
lights. ✔Correct Answer-Collector Street
Major, continuous circulation routes that carry large amounts of traffic on two or three lanes.
✔Correct Answer-Arterial Street
Limited access roads designed to move large volumes of traffic between, through, and around
population centers. ✔Correct Answer-Expressway