Planning 2 - Pointers To Review 1

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1. Father of Urban Planning, an ancient architect, urban planner and philosopher.


Hippodamus
2. Acropolis is a..... - Citadel
3. The summarized choices - Sociability, Access ang Linkages, Uses and Activities, Comfort
and Image.
4. Placemaking is – Community Driven
5. Insula” or “Insulae” is defined by – 80 yards square or 73 square meters
6. Buildings, Public Space, Transport, Landscape
7. Catal Huyuk” (or “Katalhuyuk) is characterized by… - …an ancient settlement whose
disorganized clustering of shelters led to having their entry point through the roof.
8. known for his work on perceptual form of urban environments and an early proponent of
mental mapping. - Kevin Lynch
9. Quality of the space, physical form and pattern of the decoration, framework of the observer,
and circumstances’. - Factors affecting the aesthetic and visual appeal of decorations.
10. Related to Space Usage : Emphasis on usage of space, Commonplace experience, People’s
perceptions and mental image.
11. was able to initiate pioneering urban development in the United States of America, whose
town plan could easily sustain growth. – William Penn
12. A river usually flowed through the city, providing water, transport and the beginning of the
sewage disposal.
13. The most pronounced elements in urban design, they are not only construction outputs but can
be a domicile, edifice or clustering of such which creates the "fabric" of an urban setting. -
Buildings
14. The Greek Planning was able to establish this distinctive planning factor that may have a
precursor to harmonizing the whole built environment. - paid special heed to the combination
of the different parts of a town in a harmonious whole (centered around the marketplace)
15. An ancient city where Alexander the Great commissioned Hippodamos to lay out this grandest
urban planning example. - Alexandria
16. Elements of urban design – Buildings, Public Spaces, Transport, Streets.
17. outpost settlements after the decline of Rome's power to turn into.... – The nuclei of the new
medieval societies, nuclei growing into viable towns, Monasteries acted as citadels of
the world’s learning.
18. Ancient Roman Planning is highlighted by the following – Used a consolidated scheme for
planning; Basic plan consisted of a central forum with city service, surrounded by a
compact, rectilinear grid of street ; To reduced travel times, two diagonal streets
crossed the square grid, passing through the central square.
19. Placemaking is Not….. Car-centric
20. Community is…… - A group of people in a common settlement with characteristics in
common
21. Physical variable of decorations – Unity and Harmony, Similarity & Contrast, Scale and
proportion hierarchy, Balance and Symmetry.
22. Fosters authentic human attachment and belonging. – Sense of Place
23. Study of signs, symbols and significations – Semiotics/Semiology
24. Access and Linkages a key attributes, which among the listed choices in the "measurement"
data tool does not belong? – F.A.R
25. It is the starting point of the town as indicated in the Laws of Indies, if inland, it should be at
the center of the site; when in port location, it should be at the....... – Plaza-at the landing
point
26. It is planning a future community, or the guidance and shaping of the expansion of a present
community, in an organized manner with an organized layout, taking into account many
identified considerations. – Community Planning.
27. Comfort and image is some of the key attributes, which one among the listed intangible does not
belong? - Proximity
28. Urban Planner Jan Gehl believes that ________ the effectiveness of public spaces, gives a basis
for rating the quality of public life. - Measuring
29. The growth pattern of medieval town around the monasteries and castles were naturally
started from gateways extending along roadways and then fanning out - it is called.... –
Radiocentric Pattern
30. Comfort and image, uses and activities, access and linkages, sociability - Creating a sense of
place
31. Priority was given to urban highways that unwittingly made the city more car centric and
usually... – Cuts the city in half
32. Ebenezer Horward was a social reformer whose's vision of an optimal living environment
consisted of the culture and services of the city combined with the soothing environs of the
trees and ponds of the countryside that means.... - His planning ethic deals more with the
quality-of-life issues, livable space, sense of place, identity and familiarity.
33. During the Renaissance urban town planning, they introduced this planning style which have:
Gridiron Street layout; Zone for each activity; Much easier to design buildings. Scamozzi &
Durer created the planning approach. – Quadralectic Layout
34. Visual-artistic, social usage, making places. – Traditions of thoughts in urban design
35. Radiocentric, star, branch, articulated sheet - Shape
36. The form and capacity of space matches the patterns of behaviors that people engage in or want
- fit
37. Termination of “district” - Edges
38. A major Greek Planning feature "Hippodamian" is characterized by...... - "The grid plan" as
the subsequent planning basis for Greek and Roman cities.
39. What benefit of "PLACE" that has a sense of belonging, greater sense of security, better
environment quality, feeling freedom and visually appealing? - Promotes sense of comfort
40. Thoroughfares – Streets
41. “Urban Design is the physical design of ‘Public Realism’ – Franci Tibbalds
42. Populists activities, individual style, more temporary than permanent -
Decorations/ornamentations
43. Demolition is not the best solution for urban planning.
44. In the performance dimensions, these are actions taken by anyone doing that action job to get
that work done. – Efficiency and justice
45. “Formal overtones, association with architectural details, works by an architect etc. -
ornaments
46. Sociability is a key attribute, which among the listed intangibles does not belong? - Spirituality
47. He introduced the principle of the straight wide street. - Aristotle
48. Urban planning is not the same as Urban Design
49. It is more architectural, product-oriented and focused on visual qualities. – Visual Artistic.
50. The most pronounced elements in urban design, they are not only construction outputs but can
be a domicile, edifice or clustering of such which creates the "fabric" of an urban setting. -
Landform

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