Fundamental Planning Knowledge Flashcards
+City of UR
First cities divided into neighborhoods
Jamestown Colony
1st English settlement.
Riverside IL
1st planned sub community. 1869 Olmstead.
Curvilinear Streets ( Riverside Illinois)
Avoid right-angle intersections. Triangle parcels.
Multi-Nuclei Model
The model describes the layout of a city, based on Chicago. It says that even though a city may have begun with a central business district, or CBD, other smaller CBDs develop on the outskirts of the city near the more valuable housing areas to allow shorter commutes from the outskirts of the city.
The multiple nuclei model is an economical model created by Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman in the 1945 article “The Nature of Cities”.[1]
Agrarian Philosophy
Stresses the role of nature, soil quality and climate in the formation of moral character as well as social and political systems.
Laissez Faire Philosophy
Laissez-faire is an economic philosophy of free-market capitalism that opposes government intervention. The theory of laissez-faire was developed by the French Physiocrats during the 18th century. Laissez-faire advocates that economic success is inhibited when governments are involved in business and markets.
Public Health Movement
Public Health and safety requirement and maximum works hours. Improved housing standards.
Provision of light and air in cities.
Garden City Movement
Method of urban planning in which self-contained communities are surrounded by green builts. Ebenezer Howard
City Efficient Movement
Major movement in the us, BRITAIN AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL NATIONS. Develop and implement best practices.
City Beautiful Movement
A reform philosophy of north American architecture and urban planning that thrived during the 1890’s and 1900s. Daniel Burnham.
Daniel B 1909 plan of Chicago principal document of the city beautiful movement
Neighborhood Unit Concept
Formed by the prevailing social and intellectual attitudes by 1900s Clarence perry.
City Functional Movement
Developed in the 40’s contributed to the federal government’s increased involvement in local planning and the post-war passage of section 701.
Edge Cities
becomes edge city when there is a concentration of businesses in a previously known rural or residential area.
Joel Garreus book Edge City - life on the New Frontier.
New Towns
Refers to towns that were built in the Uk. Remedy overcrowding and congestion,
New Urbanism
An urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. began in the 80s.
Broadacre City
Broadacre City was an urban or suburban development concept proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright throughout most of his lifetime. He presented the idea in his book The Disappearing City in 1932. A few years later he unveiled a very detailed twelve-by-twelve-foot (3.7 × 3.7 m) scale model representing a hypothetical four-square-mile (10 km2) community.
Concentric zone model
CBD
TRansition Zone
Low income
Middle income
Commuting zone
Sector Model
Hoyst - 1939 modification of the concentric zonen modal. outward progression of growth.
Land ord 1785
Settlers can purchase title to farmland.
Public Land Survey Stsem
Method developed in US plat, divide real property for sale and settling
Homestead Act of 1862
Was a revolutionary concept for distributing public land in American history.
Dispersed settlement
known as scattered settlement, is considered a rural settlement.
Compact or Nucleated Settlements
type of settlement pattern features a close group of buildings