A

Abutter: Means the same as “adjacent landowner.” Usually, the person who

hates progress and wishes everything still looked the same as it did in 1800.
Arcology: What happens when you splice the words “Architecture” and
“Ecology.” Used to describe self-contained megastructures that reduce human
impacts on the environment (basically, the conceptual projects that architects
love to design and no-one loves to pay for.)
B

Boomburb: Boom(ing) (su)burb. Areas that have the population density of a

city with the ugly buildings of the suburbs.
Brownfield land: Potentially contaminated former commercial or industrial
land, which your real estate developer client will insist on referring to as
“opportune”.
Brusselization: The act of plonking modern high-rises in the middle of cities
with no regard for its context. The name derives from the fact that the city of
Brussels did it a lot.
C

Community greens: Shared green spaces in residential neighborhoods. What

you mean when you color your plan green in certain areas and call it
“sustainable design.”
Conscious city: A city that understands you better than your therapist.  
Conurbation: The urban equivalent of the Blob: an area formed by multiple
towns and cities merging together to create one district.
Coving: An urban planning method of winding roads and non-uniform lots.
Sounds fun until you drive by the same house 4 times and realize you have no
idea where you are.
E

Edge city: A secondary CBD on the edge of the city.

Ekistics: The fancy science behind urban planning. A term used by people who
really care about The Power of Design™.
Elbow roomers: People who leave the city for the countryside (AKA the
winners of Farmer Wants a Wife).
F

Facadism: A practice vehemently hated by many architects, it mostly consists

of badly hiding a glass box behind a skinned heritage building.
Floor area ratio: Total floor area of building. Area of the plot.
Fused grid: A type of street network pattern that looks like an IQ test.
G
Green belt: A policy used in urban planning to retain a “belt” of the natural
environment around urban areas, because if there’s still a tiny strip of green we
can keep pretending we’re not destroying the Earth.
Greenfield land: The opposite of Brownfield land: land that is untouched and
pristine.
Greyfield land: Buildings or real estate land that is economically useless, such
as “dead malls” with seas of empty asphalt around them.  
Grid plan: Pretty obvious what this means. A plan in the shape of a grid.
I
Infill: Filling in the gaps between buildings with more buildings.
Isovist: A measurement referring to the set of points visible from a certain
point in space.
M
Mansionization: When people build humongous houses because they can. And
because they want to show how rich they are.
Missing Middle Housing: The missing jigsaw piece that fits in between
cramped one-bedroom apartments and McMansions.
N
New Urbanism: An urban design movement that promotes pedestrian-friendly
cities that are environmentally sustainable and built for communities.
New Suburbanism: You guessed it! New Urbanism…but with the suburbs.
NIMBY: An acronym for Not In My Backyard. The sort of people who believe
shelters should be built for the homeless as long as they’re not anywhere within
a 5-mile radius of their own house.
O
Out growth: An urban area growing out from an existing town or city. 
Overdevelopment: The radical idea that maybe ceaseless population growth
and building development might negatively affect the world.
P
Permeability: How cheese hole-y an urban area is. New Urbanists love this.
Placemaking: The art of making “places” rather than stand-alone pretty
buildings.
PLVI: Peak Land Value Intersection. The best land value for your buck (AKA Park
Lane.)
Protected view: When a view is so beautiful you have to protect it.
R
Ribbon development: When developments occur alongside a ribbon, usually
main roads and railway stations. Leads to urban sprawl.
Road verge: Synonyms: Curb Strip, Nature Strip, Devil Strip, Hell Strip,
Furniture Zone, Government Grass…Feel like this says a lot about the city each
name comes from.
S
Setback (land use): The minimum distance to which a building must be set
back from a street, road or natural feature.
Smart city: Similar to the conscious city, the smart city uses data collection to
gain information about its residents in order to manage the city effectively. Has
the potential to vastly improve how we live, but also sounds like a Black Mirror
episode.
Strollology: Exactly what it sounds like. The science of strolling. Not just
through beautiful meadows but through the reality of our cities, full of
greyfields, boomburbs and Brusselization.
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Synekism: The co-dependence of city-states under one leader.
T
Tactical urbanism: Similar to a tac munt (see: tactical spew), it involves a
small-scale, temporary intervention for the greater good.
Terminating vista: Super important buildings that stand at the end of a road,
so you can’t escape the view.
Third place: First place is the home, second place is the workplace, and third
place is all the other community-creating environments that are good for the
soul.
U
Urban prairie: Urban land that has reverted to green space. For those of us
that live outside America, it conjures up a vague image of green fields and
blonde little girls in bonnets.
Urban acupuncture: Surprisingly exactly what it sounds like: the intersection
of urban design and traditional Chinese acupuncture. Consists of targeting small
areas to relieve the stress of the overall city and listening to chanting music
while trying to ignore the fact that thousands of needles are being stabbed into
your body.
Urbicide: Not quite as scary as other -cide words (but possibly worse if you’re
an architect), it means “violence against the city.”
V
Vancouverism: The urban planning tricks that led to Vancouver being
consistently ranked as one of the most liveable cities in the world.
Viewshed: Just means the view from a certain point, with math added to it.
W
Walkability: The degree to which an area loves its pedestrians.
Wildlife corridor: A green corridor connecting wildlife populations that have
been separated due to human development. Increases biodiversity and allows
safe migration for animals.
Y
YIMBY: The opposite of NIMBY, YIMBYs are usually well-off Millennials who love
gentrification and want as much development as possible, even if it is horribly
designed.
Z
Zone of transition: A zone of flux and change in the concentric urban model
created by Ernest Burgess.

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