ARCC PLN 2024

The process of giving process design direction to urban growth

Urban Design

First step

Data Gathering

Analysis of Survey

Geddes

Landmarks promote a city's

Legibility

First American Garden City

Radburn

First documented city with optimal wind flow

Miletus

Ancient city with sanitary system (has an extensive sanitary system)

Rome

City mentioned in the Bible

Babylon

Father of Urban Planning

Hippodamus

Which is not considered a planning pattern of ancient cities

Organic

Not a necessary feature of a public realm in urban design

Affordability

Site plan considers the site, landscape, and

Buildings

Slope approaching the limit of vehicles (percentage slope approaches limit ORDINARY vehicle can climb)

17%

Slope maximum for pedestrians without stairs (slope normal limit of climb of pedestrian without resorting to stairs)

20-25%

Land value and rent decreases away from CBD

Bid Rent Theory

Assumption land value rent decreases as distance from CBD increases

Bid Rent Theory

One of care of urban design, provides 2nd source of character

heritage

Indirect effect of Industrial Revolution

Travel for jobs

Location of industries involve these factors of production

Labor, industry, enterprise

Criticisms of Pioneer thinks, who is exempted?

None of the above

Environmentally Critical Project (odd one out)

Tourism

Which is not a design strategy for indoor comfort

None of the above

Which is not an ECC criteria

Attributes

Physical, Biological, Cultural

Ability of soil to carry weight of structures

Soil Bearing Capacity

Size of building in relation to size of person

Scale

UST Quad pav, fountain, seating, airflow

Richness

UST student Q pav responsive environment

Robustness

Plaza mayor, facade, clothing

Visual Appropriateness

P. Noval, creative storefronts

Personalization

Element of the city can an observer mentally enter "inside of"

Distinct

Criticized for focusing on aesthetic except for

None of the above

Form of space org projecting outwards

Radial

Incorporated in a city where settlements are built

Shell, nature, etc.

Participatory planning process

Democratic planning

Science of human settlements

Ekistics

Implementing tool of the CLUP

Zoning Ordinance

CBD is characterized by high rent, accessible to pedestrians

True

1 multiple choice option

An orderly sequence of action that leads to achievement of goal

Planning

Represents ecosystem where man and society operates

Nature

Man, society, network, shell & nature

5 elements of Ekistics (inclusive approach)

Not considered as Environment Critical Project

Tourism Projects

Geddes gave PH was to provide basis of planning

Analysis of Survey

Absolute Sovereignty - participatory planning

Democratic Planning

First step in planning process

Problem Identification

Generally open, accessible

Public Space

Not principle of Urban Design

Urban Sprawl

Creative shop in P. Noval

Personalization

Live in topography

Water Bodies

Describes identity of place

Character

Not necessarily feature of public realm

Affordability

Not planning patterns in ancient city

Organic Forms

Power if government to take property for public use

Eminent Domain

The site has an aquifer underneath

Do further study impact assessment

Planning not primarily physical

Urban Planning

Indirect effect of the Industrial Revolution

Dispersal of Industries

Foundation of Planning

Ekistics

First American town

Rodburn, NJ

Theory that offers choices to the public

Public Choice Theory

Theory that sets goals & provide ways to attain

Goal Setting Theory

Theory about "Just compensation"

Bundle of Rights Theory

Pattern of arrangement of street blocks

Urban Grain

Living condition of workers

Owen

Factories were built Factories were built cheaply on rural lands and they housed the labor force outside the city.

Robert Owen

3 multiple choice options

Made one of the most important books in the history of urban planning entitled Garden City of Tomorrow

Howard Ebenezzer

3 multiple choice options

The three magnets of the Town Country or Garden City

Town, Country, Town-Country

3 multiple choice options

Howard divided towns into wards of 5,000 people each of which would contain local shops, schools & other services.

The neighborhood unit

The first Garden City

Letchworth in northern Hertfordshire (1920)

2 multiple choice options

A dormitory suburb owing its existence to the new underground opened in 1907.

The Hampstead Garden Suburb at Golders Green in north-west London (1905)

2 multiple choice options

Called the 3rd garden city, with surrounding greenbelt, mixture of industrial & residential areas; emphasis on single-family housing of good design.

Wythenshawe - Parker (1930)

2 multiple choice options

First developed by Clarence Perry based on the natural catchment area of community facilities such as primary schools and local shops

The Neighborhood Unit principle

A City is not a Tree

Christopher Alexander

Developed Radburn, NJ together with Henry Wright

Clarence Stein

He published a book called “Town Planning and Traffic” – British cities should be reconstructed on the basis of precincts instead of main city streets

H. Alker Tripp

He prepared the Greater London Plan 1944

Patrick Abercrombie

His masterpiece “Cities in Evolution” (a book published in 1915) systematic study of the forces that were shaping growth and change in modern cities.

Patrick Geddes

Geddes‟s American follower wrote “The Culture of Cities” (became almost the Bible of the regional planning movement)

Lewis Mumford

Proposed to develop along an axis of high speed, high intensity transportation from an existing city (The Linear City)

Arturo Soria Y Mata

A design for an industrial city (Cite Industrielle)

Tony Garnier

He developed a completely dispersed through planned low density urban spread called "Broadacre City"- where each home would be surrounded by an acre of land enough to grow crops,

Frank Lloyd Wright

The most notable are his Unite‟ d‟ Habitation (1946-52) at Marseilles in France. Two important books- "The City of Tomorrow" (1922) and "The Radiant City"

Charles Edouard Jeanneret

The Radiant City (La Ville radieuse).

Le Corbusier

Framework of routes

Urban Structure

Reason of health acts 19th England

Cholera

Planner to integrate the city with surrounding regions

Geddes

Considered part of the public domain in urban design

Building Facade

Modern architect, efficient transport system, urban planner grand scale

Le Corbusier

Not concern urban design

Management

Greenbelts in design

Howard

Not related discipline for inviting

Engineering

Not elements of the public realm

Cafes

Urban plan prepared by combining plan for city together with

Spontaneous Events

Change easily objective

Adaptability

Public and private

Connectivity and Enclosure

Not Greenbelts

Garnier

Many different purposes

Robustness

Strategic planning that gives direction to areas in need of repair and undergoing changes

Urban Design Framework

In three-dimensional terms has the quality necessary to meet two city requirements

Simulation Movement System

Idea that the built environment should provide its users with an opportunity with an essentially democratic settings, enriching their opportunities by maximizing their degree of choice available to them.

Responsive Architecture

Affects where people can go and where they cannot

Permeability