Urban Design & Neighborhood Planning Flashcards
Walk score
Amenities with a 1/4 mile or a 5 minute walk are given maximum points
sustainability 3 E’s
Sustainability and sustainable development are often thought of as having three core components: environment, economy, and equity.
New Urbanism
walkable blocks and streets, housing and shopping in close proximity, and accessible public spaces. human-scaled urban design (20 minute neighborhoods)
Biophylic design
Nature! Biophilic design is a concept used within the building industry to increase occupant connectivity to the natural environment through the use of direct nature, indirect nature, and space and place conditions.
Universal design
Universal design is the design of buildings, products or environments to make them accessible to all people, regardless of age, disability or other factors.
smart growth
Smart growth is a way to build cities, towns, and neighborhoods that are economically prosperous, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable. concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl.
john nolen
Marimont, Ohio creation and nature Preservation, parks, nature, etc.
jane jacobs
against robert moses. Death and Life of Great American Cities
kevin lynch
The Image of a City. known for his work on the perceptual form of urban environments and was an early proponent of mental mapping (paths, edges, districts, nodes)
chicanes
traffic calming
Smart code
The SmartCode is a model transect-based planning and zoning document based on environmental analysis. It addresses all scales of planning, from the region to the community to the block and building. The template is intended for local calibration to your town or neighborhood. As a form-based code, the SmartCode keeps settlements compact and rural lands open, literally reforming the sprawling patterns of separated-use zoning.
Richard florida’s creative class
Florida has coined the term “creative class” to describe these talented and creative people who, in his theory, help spur high-tech growth. Florida’s analysis rests upon the correlations between indices of what have been described as the “three T’s” of economic growth: talent, tolerance and technology.
Henry Wright, Clarence Stein & Marjorie Sewell Cautley
Radburn, NJ, self-sufficeint garden city with internal trails and pathways connected through, superblocks.
Lewis Mumford
Father of regional planning - with Henry Wright and Clarence Stein.
Rexford guy tugwell
Roosevelt’s brain trust, head of the Resettlement Administration. against Moses. public interest first. He launched an ambitious suburban development scheme with the intention of building hundreds of “greenbelt” cities across the country. These greenbelt cities — derisively known as “Tugwelltowns”. community retains ownership & larger areas for a comp plan. good ideas.
