Atlas - Planning & Landscape Flashcards
- Provide unity throughout contiguous urban areas
- Usually form boundaries for neighborhoods
- Minor access control; channelized intersection; parking generally prohibited
Major roads
Major arterial; highways, bi-ways, expressways, super-highways, freeways, motorways, autobahns
Major roads
- Main feeder streets
- Signals where needed
- Stop signs on side streets
- Occasionally form boundaries for neighborhoods
Secondary roads
Minor arterial; avenue, boulevard
Secondary roads
- Main interior streets
- Stop signs on side streets
Collector streets
- Local service streets
- Non-conducive to through traffic
Local streets
Dead end, turn around, T junction, Y junction, hammer, loop
Cul-de-Sac
- Street open only to one end with provision for a practical turnaround at the other
Cul-de-Sac
More difficult to manage but creates a far more interesting land development
Rolling terrain
The decline of the social, physical, and economic fabric of a city, usually located in the oldest part of the settlement
Urban decay
The process whereby a previously functioning city or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude
Urban decay
It may feature deindustrialization, depopulation or changing population, economic restructuring, abandoned buildings, high local unemployment fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate, inhospitable city landscape.
Urban decay
A geographically localized community within a larger city town or suburb. They are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members.
Neighborhood
Generally defined spatially as a specific geographic area and functionally as a set of social networks. They are then the spatial units in which face-to-face social interactions occur - the personal settings and situations where residents seek to realize common values, socialize youth, and maintain effective social control
Neighborhood
An area of a town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or which has a particular feature that makes it different from surrounding areas
District
A tract of land forming a passageway, such as one that allows inland access to another town or city
Corridor
A central element of urban planning and urban design
Block
The smallest area that is surrounded by streets
City block
The space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, form the basic unit of a city’s urban fabric
City block
Maybe subdivided into any number of smaller lots or parcels of land usually in private ownership, though in some cases, it may be other forms of tenure
City block
Usually built-up to varying degrees and thus form the physical containers or “street walls” of public space
City block
Means “returning the existing fabric of a place to a known earlier state by removing accretions or by reassembling existing components without the introduction of new material”
Restoration
“Maintaining the fabric of a place in its existing state and retarding deterioration”
Preservation
Combined elements of the Concentric Zone Theory and Sector Theory with certain other factors to explain landuse
Multiple Nuclei Theory
