HTC Flashcards
Wrote “Man Makes Himself”
V. Gordon Childe
Three age system: stone age, bronze age, iron age
V. Gordon Childe
Wrote “In the Mountains of Greece” and “The Greeks”
HDF Kitto
A city-state and self-governing community
Polis
Polluter pays principle
Plato
Intergenerational equity
Aristotle
Zoon politikon
Aristotle
Invented formal city planning, the grid city
Hippodamus of Miletus
Wrote “City Origins” and “Cities and European Civilizations”
Henri Pirenne
Said that trade revived cities during the 11th century
Henri Pirenne
Their layout became the basis for the Garden City and New Urbanism
Medieval cities
Wrote “Great Towns”
Friedrich Engels
An icon of international communism, a friend of Karl Marx’s
Friedrich Engels
Wrote “Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston”
Sam Bass Warner
Studied changes in urban life after the industrial revolution and social transformation
Sam Bass Warner
Wrote “Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States”
Kenneth T. Jackson
Studied the negative and social cultural effecs of the private automobile
Kenneth T. Jackson
Wrote “Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia” and “Urban Utopias of the 20th Century”
Robert Fisherman
Coined “technoburb” and “techno-city”
Robert Fisherman
Peripheral zones that have emerged as viable socio-economic units
Technoburb
A whole metropolitan region that has been transformed by the technoburb
Techno-city
Wrote “The City in History” and “The Culture of Cities”
Lewis Mumford
The city as a theatre of social action
Lewis Mumford
The most important are the natural environment and the spiritual values
Lewis Mumford
Studied migration, urban population, and majority-minority cities
Albert M. Camarillo
Proponent of new urbanism, eyes on the street, and street ballet
Jane Jacobs
7 books written by Jane Jacobs
- The Death & Life of Great American Cities
- The Economy of Cities
- Systems of Survival
- Dark Age Ahead
- The Question of Separatism
- Cities & the Wealth of Nations
- The Nature of Economies
Said that there were 2 layers of the creative class
Richard Florida
The 2 layers of the creative class
- Super creative core
2. Creative professionals
Studied globalization, migration, and exclusion
Ali Madanipour
Space of place, and space of flows
Manuel Castells
Coined “network society”
Manuel Castells
Studied urban crime in inner-city neighborhoods and proposed the “broken windows” theory
James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling
Said that “right to the city” is a protest demand, and that there is a need for greater democratic control
David Harvey
“Accummulate by dispossession” and “creative destruction”
David Harvey
Proponent of the ladder of citizen participation
Sherry Arnstein
The ladder of citizen participation
Under citizen power:
8 - Citizen control
7 - Delegated power
6 - Partnership
Under tokenism:
5 - Placation
4 - Consultation
3 - Informing
Under non-participation:
2 - Therapy
1 - Manipulation
Originated the urban parks movement, with Calvert Vaux
Frederick Law Olmsted
Wrote “Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns”
Frederick Law Olmsted
The 3 great moral imperatives for public parks
- Need to improve health and sanitation
- Need to combat urban vice and social degeneration
- Need to provide democratically-available utilities
Proponent of the garden cities and the concept of 3 magnets
Ebenezer Howard
Wrote “Garden Cities of Tomorrow” and “Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform”
Ebenezer Howard
Population for the Central City (Garden Cities)
56,000 population
Population for the Garden City
32,000 population
Real name of Le Corbusier
Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris
Wrote “A Contemporary City of 3M People”
Le Corbusier
Proposed to decongest city centers by increasing their density
Le Corbusier
Proposed Broadacre City - 1 acre of land for every citizen
Frank Lloyd Wright
Proposed the quadruple block plan
Frank Lloyd Wright
Year of “The Population Bomb,” which predicted overcrowding
1968
Wrote “The Population Bomb”
P. Erlich
Year of “The Limits to Growth” by the Club of Rome, on government overproduction and overconsumption
1972
Year of the UN Report “Our Common Future,” which called for sustainable development
1987
Year of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
1992
Year of the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development
2002
Year of the Paris Agreement/Climate Accord to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius
2016
Wrote “Green Manhattan,” which claims that Manhattan is the greenest community in the United States
David Owen
Studied paradigms and paradigm shifts
Peter Hall
Studied planning in terms of views (theory and planning practice)
Peter Hall
Identified planners’ roles and studied the micro-politics of planning
John Forester
The four roles of planners, according to John Forester
- Rule enforcers
- Negotiators and mediators
- Resource people
- Shuttle diplomats
Said that planning should be pluralistic (inclusive) and gave rise to advocacy and equity in planning
Paul Davidoff
Said that urbanism has a role to play in reducing global climate change
Peter Calthorpe
Coined “livable cities”
Peter Calthorpe
A collaborative process by which we can shape our public realm in order to maximize shared value
Placemaking
Proponent of the pedestrian-oriented neighborhood unit
Clarence Perry
Considers the spatial preference of single people vs. married people, and places the primary school as a central institution for nuclear families with young children
Neighborhood unit
Wrote “Image of the City”
Kevin Lynch
Elements of the image of the city
- Path
- Edge
- Node
- District
- Landmark
Said that if the physical environment is pleasant, people will engage in optional outdoor activities
Jan Gehl
4 theoretical dualities of design, according to Jan Gehl
- Assemble vs disperse
- Integrate vs segregate
- Invite vs repel
- Open up vs close
Said that resilience should refer to both the physical landscape and different social spaces of cities
Lawrence Vale
Said that proactive/preventive planning vs reactive/restorative planning
Lawrence Vale
Coined the terms “global city,” “system of cities,” “pseudo-CBD,” “cyber routes,” and “digital highways”
Saskia Sassen
Places where international financial functions are concentrated and whose economies are most closely integrated with the world economy
Global city
Studied globalised urbanization
Neil Brenner and Roger Keil
Wrote “The Urban Revolution”
Henri Lefebvre
Wrote “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Healthier, and Happier”
Edward Glaeser