Exam 1 reviewer

Question 1

The later half of the 20th century the art of community design was abandoned in america. it took ______ years to develop (mid 1500s to mid 1940s)

Answer 1

450 years

Question 2

-Pre concieved notion of a place that would be the center of community

• shape american towns
• guided by the spanish

Answer 2

laws of indies

Question 3

gave the new england town model
-all land within the boundaries is allocated to a towns
-all residents live within the boundaries of municipal corp.

Answer 3

the ordering of towns

Question 4

____has evolved and improve
-sometimes as a result of grand citizen area
- sometimes as a result of government sponsorship.

Answer 4

community design

Question 5

Nation grew and industrial rev, brought to huddled masses to theseshore

utopian design
- ebenezer howards garden city concept:
1.
2.

Answer 5

1. industrialist new town model
2. romantic suburb design

Question 6

*change after world war II

-people move away from the city toward a less crowded lifestyle at the urban fringe
- great depression

Answer 6

New optimism development (post war period)

Question 7

*change after world war II

____is the spreading of urban development

Answer 7

sprawl

Question 8

*change after world war II

-resulted from the demand for low density and privacy.
- unfocus planning and laissez-faire

Answer 8

sprawl

Question 9

what is the meaning of laissez-faire?

Answer 9

-they can do what they want
- opposes interference by the government

Question 10

*change after world war II

Public was made aware of environmental concerns.
- ________ become formidable challenges to designers and planners.

Answer 10

growth control

Question 11

*change after world war II

what are the under in “ Near growth and development”

Answer 11

-garden cities, new towns, romantic suburbs
-mixed-use communities

Question 12

*change after world war II

-PUD
-Attempt to preserve open space for public recreation and environmentally sensitive areas and wildlife habitat

Answer 12

mixed-used communities

Question 13

*change after world war II

-predominant before world war II
-most residents are within 5 minute walk of its center.
-GOAL: reduced the needs for automobile by centralizing life’s necessities within walking distance of housing

Answer 13

TND (traditional neighborhood development)

Question 14

*change after world war II

• desire to escape the gridlock (traffic jamb on intersections)/ crowded highways

Answer 14

TND (traditional neighborhood development)

Question 15

BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE COMMUNITY

Answer 15

1. THE DIVERSITY OF HOUSING OPTION
2. SHOPPING ANF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
3. RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE
4. THE VARIOS FORM OF TRANSPORTATION

Question 16

• art of making sustainable living places that both thrive and adapt to people needs for shelter, livelihood, commerce, recreation, and social order.
• suggest from predetermined intention
• more than the adherence to a set of rules for development
  -about creating a better place

Answer 16

community design

Question 17

about creating a better place
1.
2.
3,
4

Answer 17

1. independence and dependency
2. architecture and landscape
3. understanding and building
4. the good and the bad

Question 18

book: CITY LIGHTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO URBAN STUDIES by______

Answer 18

E. Barbara Philips and Richard T. Ligates

Question 19

argued that community has no agreed-upon meaning but that usually refers
- a group sharing a physical space
-sharing common trait
-bound together

Answer 19

E. Barbara Philips and Richard T. Ligates