2 - Subarea Planning

Question 1

Integrated Corridor Management (ICM).

Answer 1

Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) seeks to coordinate individual network operations between parallel facilities/routes to create an interconnected system allowing cross network travel management. It is one of nine Tier I initiatives of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems program.

Question 2

To receive __________ designation, a roadway must have archaeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and/or scenic qualities.

Answer 2

Scenic Byway

Question 3

In 1967, _____________ created the first locally-funded greenbelt in the United States, funded by an increase in the local sales tax.

Answer 3

Boulder, Colorado

Question 4

The neighborhood unit was proposed by sociologist __________ in the 1920s

Answer 4

Clarence Perry

Question 5

The area of neighborhood unit was________, with a density of _______units per acre and a population of 5,000.

Answer 5

• 160 acres (the acreage of a half-mile square, within which Perry placed a circle with a quarter-mile radius);
• 10 units per acre

Question 6

Census tracts, which average _________ population, are often used as a proxy for neighborhood.

Answer 6

4,000

Question 7

Edge City

Answer 7

Edge City describes a relatively new concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional urban area in what had recently been a suburb or rural community. The term was popularized in the 1991 book Edge City by Joel Garreau, who argued that edge cities were the new normal of urban growth worldwide.

Question 8

Garreau established five rules for a place to be considered an edge city:

• It must have more than ______ square feet of office space to accommodate between ___ to _____ office workers (as many as some traditional downtowns);
• It must have more than ______ square feet of retail space, the size of a medium shopping mall. This ensures that the edge city is a center of recreation and commerce as well as office work;
• It must be characterized by more jobs than bedrooms;
• It must be perceived by the population as one place;
• It must have been nothing like a city 30 years earlier.

Answer 8

• 5 million SF of office
• 20,000 to 50,000 office workers
• 600,000 SF or retail