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Module 3 Flashcards

1
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3 related planning paradigms for building better communities

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Smart growth

New Urbanism

Sustainable design

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2
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Protect site natural resources and provide recreational opportunities

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Open space systems

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3
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Enrich public open spaces, especially streetscapes, and create neighborhoods with a clear sense of identity

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Site and architectural designs

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4
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Diversity of housing types and prices

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Mixed and integrated uses

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5
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Sustainable, context-responsive site planning has three fundamental precepts

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Design with Nature

Design with Culture

Design Places for People

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Significant site and contextual conditions

Provide the basis, or rationale, for organizing and articulating the program on the site

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Design determinants

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7
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Design determinants include these factors

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On site (intrinsic)

Off site (extrinsic)

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8
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These activities range from private-sector real estate development to public-sector nature conservation and restoration

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Program and Preferences

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Features that are retained, undisturbed, in the site plan

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On-site Form Determinants

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10
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Important on-site form determinants

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Physical conditions

Regulations and standards

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Often influence the location and organization of program elements on the site

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Off-site Form Determinants

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12
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Routinely affect the design of site entrances

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Land development regulations

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13
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Set of guiding principles and strategies for making design decisions

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Design theory

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14
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Creative problem solving, as summarized by Kvashny, involves the pursuit of five things

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Facts

Problems

Ideas

Solutions

Acceptance

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15
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Livable communites should possess these elements

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Safe

Visually attractive

Pedestrian friendly

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16
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Concerned with form and indirect appearance because the form of the built environment directly affetcs its functions

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Design theory

17
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Fundamental determinants of community sustainability and quality of life

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Spatial organization

Articulation of the built environment

18
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Who writes in The Ruse of the Creative Class that better educated, higher income professionals essentially “vote with their feet”

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Richard Florida

19
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Vital component of any community, and its location and design play a very important role in how the community is experienced

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Open space

20
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Three dimensional compositions are derived from elements

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Floor plane (ground)
Wall plane (vertical)
Ceiling plane (overhead)

21
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Most comprehensive of the three principles of composition

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Unity

22
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Visual unity is achieved through—

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Repetition
Simplicity
Rhythm
Proportion

23
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Refers to the visual “weight” associated with color, form, texture, and other visible qualities of the built environment

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Balance

24
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A balanced composition successfullyy manages—

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Weight of visible attributes
Scale

25
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Principle of composition that is established when a building or other design element is distinct, in some way, from other nearby elements

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Emphasis

26
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Emphasis is often accomplished—

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Contrast
Hierarchy

27
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Provide consistency in organizing and arranging disparate materials and components

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Geometry frameworks

28
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In a rectilinear framework, elements are organized as follows:

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Straight lines
Right angles
Squares and rectangles

29
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In an angular framework, key elements are organized —

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Points

Radiating lines and acute or obtuse angles

Triangles and hexagons

30
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In curvilinear framework, the key elementd are organized by—

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Generative points
Arcs and tangents
Circle and semi-circles

31
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Frequently combined to create hybrid themes where two or more geometric patterns are juxtaposed

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Rectilinear

Angular

Curvilinear

32
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Fundamental goal of good site planning

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Protecting sensitive natural areas

33
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Conservation open space

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Woodland
Gradsland
Water

34
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Developed “hard” open space

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Plaza
Promenade
Courtyard

35
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Developed “soft” open space

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Lawn
Garden
Park

36
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Well designed open spaces can strengthen a community’s identity or

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Sense of place

37
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Spaces that are typically poorly defined and often neglected

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Lost spaces

38
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Influenced by the height of the defining wall planes and the dimensions of the open space

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Sense of enclosure

39
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Valued for its cooling effects

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