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Area Flashcards

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Master planner of Paris

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Baron Haussmann

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An urban development tool for the transformation of the public realm into a livable place with a unique identity which makes use of a multi-disciplinary process

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Urban design

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A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in urban design

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Aesthetics

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Defines that all parts of the urban elements relate and complement each other. This can be achieved through repetition and rhythm

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Harmony

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Defines the totality / appearance of the whole urban composition

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Beauty

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Deals with the arrangement or disposition of urban composition in relation to each other according to a particular sequence

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Order

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American urban planner who is the author of the “Image of the City”

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Kevin Lynch

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This book defines the key elements of modern urban design

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Image of the City

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The ease with which its parts can be recognized and organized in a a coherent pattern; a city with this quality is one whose whose districts or landmarks or pathways are easily identifiable and are easily grouped into an into an overall pattern

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Legibility

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Channels along areas where people move through (e.g, streets, walkways, transit lines, rivers, creeks, railroads)

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Paths

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Medium to large sections of the city, which people identify as places possessed with some common identifying character

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Districts

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Linear elements that define places; may be boundaries or barriers dividing distinct spaces or elements (e.g, shores, railroad cuts, edges of development, walls)

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Edges

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Points or strategic spots in a city which people can normally “enter”; the “foci” reference for travel (e.g, junctions, transportation terminals terminals or stations, crossing or convergence convergence of paths, a a street-corner hangout, hangout, an enclosed park or plaza, a district “core”)

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Nodes

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A micro type of point-reference, usually a defined physical object (e.g, an old heritage structure, a highly visible infrastructure facility, a natural outcrop, etc); some may be distant in location that can be seen from many angles; some may be within the city itself symbolizing a point of reference

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Landmarks

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  • The most influential school of fine arts founded (as the Académie Royale d’Architecture) in Paris in 1671 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of Louis XIV
  • To train architects in the latest design techniques so that they could plan wide scale projects within various communities
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Ecole des Beaux Arts

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The premise of the movement was the idea that beauty could be an effective social control device

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City Beautiful Movement

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Father of the City Beautiful Movement, and Director of Works of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago

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Daniel Burnham

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Notable commissions of Daniel Burnham (6)

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  1. Washington D.C.
  2. Cleveland
  3. Manila
  4. Baguio City
  5. San Francisco
  6. Chicago
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Recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation’s foremost parkmaker

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Frederick Law Olmsted

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Notable commissions of Frederick Law Olmsted (3)

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  1. Prospect Park, Brooklyn
  2. Central Park, Manhattan
  3. Lagoon, World’s Columbian Exposition
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4 collaborators to craft the Quezon City master plan

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  1. Harry Frost
  2. Juan Arellano
  3. A.D. Williams
  4. William Parson
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  • Applies to the science of human settlements. It includes regional, city, community planning and dwelling design
  • The theoretical pioneer of area of development planning
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Ekistics

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Proponent of Ekistics

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Konstantinos Doxiadis

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5 elements of human settlements

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  1. Human
  2. Society
  3. Nature
  4. Shell
  5. Network
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Type of economy for human settlements in organic or linear patterns along rivers and coasts

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Primarily agricultural

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Type of economy for human settlements in mono-centric compact form around the port of waterfront

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Mercantile or trading city

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Type of economy for human settlements in radial or axial patterns - transport arteries began to radiate from the historic center

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Manufacturing city

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Type of economy for human settlements in donut form (hollow center) - as businesses abandon city centers and migrate to suburbia

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Primarily service economy (tertiary services, business and finance)

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Type of economy for human settlements in multi-nodal or multi-centric patterns, appearance of “edge cities” and “techno-poles”

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Post-industrial (quaternary and quinary sectors, ICT, pleasure industries)

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Sector: service industry, which includes services related to retail, transportation, hotels, sales

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Tertiary sector

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Sector: involves the services related to the knowledge sector, which includes the demand for the information-based services, intellectual activities and services as research and development (R&D), media, culture, and information and communications technology (ICT)

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Quaternary sector

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Sector: involves highly paid professionals, research scientists, and government officials. The people are designated with high positions and powers, and those who make important decisions that are especially far-reaching in the world

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Quinary sector

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The beliefs, values, practices and objects that give a place its own specific character and identity

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Cultural heritage

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A process that postures existing buildings for new uses while retaining their historic features

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Adaptive reuse

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Structures dating at least ___ and archival materials dating at least ___ are considered as important cultural property items

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50 years, 50 years

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A conceptual model for zero-fossil fuel energy use, zero-emission (low-to no-carbon emissions) and zero-waste urban design, which arose in the 1990s, promoting compact energy-efficient urban development –more resilient communities

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Green Urbanism

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A resource accounting tool that measures how much productive land and sea area (known as biocapacity) a human population requires to produce the resources we consume and absorb our waste, such as CO2 emissions

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Ecological footprint

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The annual demand on resources exceeds what the Earth can regenerate in a year

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Ecological overshoot

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How long does it take the earth to regenerate what we use in one year

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1 year and 6 months

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Phenomenon wherein the city center is warmer than suburbs

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Urban Heat Island (UHI)

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An urban design movement, which arose in the USA in the early 1980s, promoting walkable, mixed-use neighbourhoodsand transit-oriented development (TOD), seeking to end suburban sprawl and promote community interaction

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New urbanism

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An area where the dominant land use within ___ from the periphery of the proposed memorial park/ cemetery is neither residential, commercial, industrial nor institutional

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100 meters

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The memorial park/cemetery must be located on ground where the water table is not higher than ___ below the ground surface

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4.50 meters

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At least ___ of the saleable area shall be utilized for underground interment in order to retain park-like character of the project

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50%

45
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The dimension of the niche/vault must be able to house an urn or receptacle designed to hold at least ___ of cremated human remains

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200 cubic inches

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A minimum of ___ passageway shall be provided between interment structures if proposed to be in grid design

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2.0 meters

JEPBE (17 decks)

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