Test 2

Question 1

Which of these, if any or all, are principles of traditional development, as in Alexandria, Virginia?
A- downtown center
B- business parks
C-complex street networks
D-curving streets
E- single-use zoning

Answer 1

A- downtown center
C-complex street networks

Question 2

Which of these terms, if any or all, are associated with traditional neighborhoods and New Urbanism?
A- collector roads
B- small curb radius
C- complex intersection geometries
D-front retail parking lots
E-on-street parallel parking
F-CPTED

Answer 2

C- complex intersection geometries
E-on-street parallel parking
F-CPTED

Question 3

Which of these places, if any or all, are associated with traditional neighborhoods and New Urbanism?
A- Manhattan, New York
B- Phoenix, Arizona
C-Virginia Beach, Virginia
D- Charleston, South Carolina
E- Georgetown, District of Colombia
F- Cabrini Green, Chicago, Illinois

Answer 3

A- Manhattan, New York
D- Charleston, South Carolina
E- Georgetown, District of Colombia

Question 4

What is ‘induced traffic’?

Answer 4

when roads are built or expanded to alleviate congestion, it often encourages more people to drive, which ultimately leads to congestion returning to previous levels or even worsening.

Question 5

What hidden reason prevents many middle-class families in the US from owning a median-priced house?

Answer 5

Investment in cars leaves little money for housing

Question 6

What two useful types of affordable housing are illegal in many communities?

Answer 6

Living above the store
The outbuilding also known as the garage apartment or granny

Question 7

What was the worst error of federal housing policy in the 1960 and 1970’s?

Answer 7

Relocation of the poor to ghetto neighborhood

Question 8

What proportion of pedestrian deaths in sprawl cities are the driver’s fault?
30%, 50%, 70%, 90%

Answer 8

90%

Question 9

What percentage of New Yorkers travel to work by public transit, bicycle, or on foot?
21%, 45%, 63%, 82%

Answer 9

82%

Question 10

The history of the US environmental movement being focused on the countryside rather than the city goes back to the presidency of which president?

Answer 10

President Thomas Jefferson

Question 11

The environmental lesson from New York City is that the way to sustainability is to live__, live__, and drive__.

Answer 11

smaller, closer, less

Question 12

What is associated with sprawl in the first four chapters of Suburban Nation

Answer 12

Interstate Highway System
FHA & VA Postwar Mortgage Loans
White Flight
AASHTO Street Design
Single-use zoning
Office parks
Pods and clusters:
Collector roads
curving streets
cul-de-sacs,
Small curb radius
Skinny streets
Complex intersection geometries
Sparse hierarchy road system
Gated communities
Highway-based retail

Question 13

In the first four chapters of “Suburban Nation” by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, several places are discussed in relation to sprawl:

Answer 13

Virginia Beach, Virginia
Palmer Square, Princeton, NJ
Cabrini Green, Chicago
Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Montgomery County, Maryland