Larch065 Exam 2

Question 1

How do streets impact the built environment?

Answer 1

Connecting different land for different uses

Question 2

What are the characteristics of alternative streets like Woonerf, Skinny Streets, and
Green
Streets?

Answer 2

Woonerf:
People before Cars, Random Parking, No division between sidewalks/streets, Residential Areas

Skinny:
More Narrow, Not over designed

Green:
Vegetation for remediation, Storm Water retention.infiltration, Aesthetic

Question 3

How do street standards impact the development of the built environment?

Answer 3

Types of Streets affect users interaction with the environment.

Question 4

Streets are scenes of conflict
?

Answer 4

Different Users with different uses:
Agencies VS Residents
Planners VS Designers

Question 5

What is ideology?

Answer 5

Beliefs and theories that shape the way people live and interact with their environment

Question 6

Hegemony

Answer 6

When the inferior class thinks that their superiors are taking care of them. An excellent example is The French acting as Protectorates of their Moroccan Colony.

Question 7

How was colonial urbanism inscribed onto
Boulevard Muhammad V (including Avenue
de Touergas, and Cours Lyautey)?

Answer 7

In order to maintain French “Native Policy” the buildings had to resemble pre-colonial Moroccan architecture:
Less than 5 stories
Uniformly White over stones bases
Contain Moroccan architectural details

Question 8

Avenue des Touergas

Answer 8

Showed separation by having the Sultan’s palace on one side and the French Administrative quarters on the other.

Question 9

Medina

Answer 9

Old City

Question 10

Ways in which colonial government acquired land in Morocco

Answer 10

Outright expropriation for public purpose
claims to dominal orchards and gardens of sultan
pruchases and appropriations through definition of “private land ownership”

Question 11

French Colonial Design

Answer 11

Mixing western principles with Moroccan architecture

Question 12

architect that urban planned Rabat

Answer 12

Henri Prost

Question 13

Resident general and head of Moroccan Army

Answer 13

Hubert Lyuatey

Question 14

Non Edification Zone

Answer 14

Staging ground for military in response to an uprising, sanitation and disease prevention, overall separation of the two cultures of old and new french and morccan

Question 15

How is ideology expressed?

Answer 15

By both explicit and implicit means

Question 16

Who is a street vendor?

Answer 16

Somebody who sells things on streets or sidewalks in the informal sector. Often lacking the same permits required by traditional storefronts
They can be in both mobile or stationary stalls

Question 17

What is the informal or unorganized sector of the economy?

Answer 17

Cahs Economy, No license, Little education required, Family, Labor intensive, Small, Low Capital, Ease of entrance into economy

Question 18

What are the two contrasting images of street vendors? Describe the attributes ascribed
to each of these conceptualizations.

Answer 18

Drain on society VS Service culture

Question 19

What are the major characteristics of street vendors in New York City?

Answer 19

The vending is regulated and done mostly by legal immigrants
Some others include artists behind the first amendment
and veterans

Question 20

3 Street Sizes

Answer 20

Residential
Collectors
Arterial

Question 21

Positive view of street Vendors

Answer 21

Entrepreneur, Service, Create own employment, Reduce Poverty, Sontirbute to economy, culture and tradition

Question 22

Negative view of street vendors

Answer 22

Illegal, Criminal, Crowd, Squat, Bottleneck traffic, Filth

Question 23

What kind of Street lacks material and level differences?

Answer 23

Woonerf

Question 24

3 street conflict dichotomies:

Answer 24

Traveler VS Bystander
Traveler VS Traveler
Bystander VS Bystander

Question 25

2 More Street Street Conflicts

Answer 25

Public Agencies VS Residents

Traffic Engineers VS Urban Designers

Question 26

How do streets impact the built environment?

Answer 26

Connecting different land for different uses