LARC 160 Final Exam part 1 Questions with 100% Correct Answers

What does the question of circulation ask? Correct Answer Can people get to something easily? Collector road Correct Answer a road that funnels traffic from neighborhood backstreets into arterial roads Local road Correct Answer backstreets, mainly located in suburbs What does site analysis make the designer ask? Correct Answer "So what"?/"Why is this important?" What three types of factors does a good site analysis address? Correct Answer physical, environmental (biological), and cultural factors What 7 things affect social life in small urban spaces? (plazas) (from class movie) Correct Answer Sunlight, water, plant life, food, seating, triangulation, & relation of space to the street What does FFE stand for and what kind of datum does is represent? Correct Answer "Finished Floor Elevation"; represents an assumed datum What is an FFE assumed datum? Correct Answer the surrounding land elevation of a site is based on the relationship with the height of the lowest level of a building or built object What does a v-shape line pointing uphill in a topography map show? Correct Answer signifies a ditch there What does a v-shape line pointing downhill in a topography map represent? Correct Answer shows a ridge in the land there What is the slope scale of a land area?