Programming & Analysis (PA) 2 | Ballast - PA - Building Context|
Questions and Answers
What invention led to the star-shaped city layout? ** Answ** The invention of gunpowder
What was at the center of the Medieval City form? ** Answ** The church
What was at the center of the star-shaped city form? ** Answ** The central plaza
Who advocated for straight, arterial boulevards connecting principal historic buildings,
monument, and open squares? ** Answ** Eugene Haussmann
What is it called when there is a civic space around a pinwheel arrangement of streets? **
Answ** Turbine square
What movements spawned the garden city concept? ** Answ** The Industrial Revolution
What are towns called that are dependent on larger towns nearby for business? ** Answ**
Satellite towns
What city plan included separate zones for residential, public, industrial, and agricultural uses
linked by separated circulation paths for vehicles and pedestrians? ** Answ** Cite
Industrielle
What system had regularly planned public open spaces and uniform spacing and setback of the
buildings? ** Answ** Gridiron street system
What was the basic unit of the Oglethorpe Plan? ** Answ** The ward
What contained four residential blocks and four civic blocks intended for public buildings
arranged around an open central square? ** Answ** The ward
, Who planned diagonal and radial streets superimposed on a rectangular grid? ** Answ**
Pierre Charles L'enfant
Who was one of the first landscape architects to preserve he natural features of an area while
adding naturalistic elements? ** Answ** Frederick law Olmsted
What was the idea that new cities could be formed away from the crowding and ugliness of
exiting cities, but resulted in increasing commute and demand on existing large cities? **
Answ** The new town concept
What is the philosophy that attempts to counter suburban sprawl, reliance on the automobile,
environmental deterioration, housing segregation, loss of farmland, and single-use development?
** Answ** New urbanism
What are 5 types of patterns of cities? ** Answ** 1. Grid
2. Star
3 field
4. Satellite
5. Megalopolis
What city patterns grown out of a dense urban core, with development following the radiating
spokes of main highways and mass transit routes out of the center? ** Answ** The star
pattern
What city pattern does other major urban ares surround a large dense urban core? ** Answ**
The satellite pattern
What city pattern has no central focus or apparent overall organization scheme? ** Answ**
Field pattern
Questions and Answers
What invention led to the star-shaped city layout? ** Answ** The invention of gunpowder
What was at the center of the Medieval City form? ** Answ** The church
What was at the center of the star-shaped city form? ** Answ** The central plaza
Who advocated for straight, arterial boulevards connecting principal historic buildings,
monument, and open squares? ** Answ** Eugene Haussmann
What is it called when there is a civic space around a pinwheel arrangement of streets? **
Answ** Turbine square
What movements spawned the garden city concept? ** Answ** The Industrial Revolution
What are towns called that are dependent on larger towns nearby for business? ** Answ**
Satellite towns
What city plan included separate zones for residential, public, industrial, and agricultural uses
linked by separated circulation paths for vehicles and pedestrians? ** Answ** Cite
Industrielle
What system had regularly planned public open spaces and uniform spacing and setback of the
buildings? ** Answ** Gridiron street system
What was the basic unit of the Oglethorpe Plan? ** Answ** The ward
What contained four residential blocks and four civic blocks intended for public buildings
arranged around an open central square? ** Answ** The ward
, Who planned diagonal and radial streets superimposed on a rectangular grid? ** Answ**
Pierre Charles L'enfant
Who was one of the first landscape architects to preserve he natural features of an area while
adding naturalistic elements? ** Answ** Frederick law Olmsted
What was the idea that new cities could be formed away from the crowding and ugliness of
exiting cities, but resulted in increasing commute and demand on existing large cities? **
Answ** The new town concept
What is the philosophy that attempts to counter suburban sprawl, reliance on the automobile,
environmental deterioration, housing segregation, loss of farmland, and single-use development?
** Answ** New urbanism
What are 5 types of patterns of cities? ** Answ** 1. Grid
2. Star
3 field
4. Satellite
5. Megalopolis
What city patterns grown out of a dense urban core, with development following the radiating
spokes of main highways and mass transit routes out of the center? ** Answ** The star
pattern
What city pattern does other major urban ares surround a large dense urban core? ** Answ**
The satellite pattern
What city pattern has no central focus or apparent overall organization scheme? ** Answ**
Field pattern
