Urban Theories and Practices

Question 1

8 Urban Theories & Practices

Answer 1

*Garden Cities
*City Beautiful Movement
*New Capitals
*The Neighborhood Unit
*City of Towers
*Broadacres
*Radical Urban Ideas
*Contemporary World Urbanization

Question 2

Who wrote Author of “Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform” (1898)?

Answer 2

Ebenezer Howard

Question 3

It is clustered with a mother town of 58,000 to 65,000 with smaller “garden cities” of 30,000 to 32,000 each with permanent green space separating the cities with the towns serving as horizontal fence of farmland; rails and roads would link the towns with industries and nearby towns supplying fresh food.

Answer 3

The Garden City Movement

Question 4

It is a polycentric settlement, growth without limit, surrounded by a greenbelt; town grows by cellular addition into a complex multi centered agglomeration of towns set against a green background of open country.

Answer 4

Social City

Question 5

This combined the advantages of the town by way of access and all the advantages of the country by
way of the environment without any of the disadvantages of either.

Answer 5

Garden City

Question 6

The first Garden City designed by
Raymond Unwin & Barry Parker
in 1902

Answer 6

Letchworth

Question 7

Followers of Howard

Answer 7

SIR FREDERICK OSBORNE
RAYMUND UNWIN
BARRY PARKER

Question 8

This opened in 1907 meant only for housing but with a variety of housing types lined along streets with terminating axes on civic buildings in a large common green

Answer 8

Hampstead Garden Suburbs

Question 9

It called the 3rd garden city

Answer 9

Wythenshawe

Question 10

Father of American City Planning

Answer 10

Daniel Burnham (1846
1912)

Question 11

He spearheaded the movement with his design for Chicago and his famous words: “make no little plans…”

Answer 11

Daniel Burnham (1846
1912)

Question 12

Golden era of urban design in the US

Answer 12

The City Beautiful Era (1900
1945)

Question 13

According to Burnham, this City was a totally designed system of main circulation arteries, a network of parks and clusters or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers, including the City Hall, a court house, a library, an opera house, a museum, and a plaza.

Answer 13

The City Beautiful Era (1900
1945)

Question 14

He worked on the reconstruction of Paris: linear connection between the Place de Concord, Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower and others

Answer 14

Baron George Eugene
Hausmann

Question 15

Capital of Brazil which was designed Designed by Lucio Costa with a lot of influence from Le Corbusier

Answer 15

Brasilia

Question 16

It was designed by Louis de Soisson and brought formality and Georgian Taste

Answer 16

Welwyn

Question 17

It was the capital of Brazil during 1763-1960

Answer 17

Rio de Janeiro

Question 18

When was the official inauguration of Brasilia?

Answer 18

April 21, 1960

Question 19

He was the chief architect of most public buildings in Brasilia

Answer 19

Oscar Niemeyer

Question 20

He was the landscape designer in Brasilia

Answer 20

Roberto Burle Marx

Question 21

Brasilia uses what type of architectural style?

Answer 21

Modernist Architecture

Question 22

This is the only realized plan of Le Corbusier in India

Answer 22

Chandigarh

Question 23

The original masterplan of chandigarh was made by whom?

Answer 23

Alber Myer

Question 24

This idea was to create a series of superblocks, each around open green spaces which are themselves interconnected.

Answer 24

The Radburn Idea or New Town Idea

Question 25

It is an island of greens, bordered by homes and carefully skirted by peripheral auto roads

Answer 25

Superblocks

Question 26

It is typified by the backyards of homes facing the street and the fronts of homes facing each other over yards.

Answer 26

Radburn design

Question 27

The neighborhood unit book is written by whom?

Answer 27

Clarence Perry

Question 28

It is defined as the physical environment wherein social, cultural, educational, qnd commercial are within easy reach of each other concerns self-sustainability of smaller units

Answer 28

The Neighborhood Unit