AMACE - PLN Lecture and Quiz Notes

Flashcards covering vocabulary and concepts from urban design, site planning, geography, and human factors as presented in the lecture notes.

Personalization

The extent to which people can put their own stamp on a place.

Geodetic Engineer

A professional hired to provide exact measurements and topographical characteristics of a site, such as a $2.5\,\text{hectare}$ site in Tagaytay.

Personal reconnaissance notes, sketches and photos.

A survey is a checklist of information or data pertaining to a site; Which of the following is the first step

when conducting a survey?

Public Space

An element that helps define the character and beauty of a city and creates soft, contrasting spaces.

Contours

Sets of imaginary lines that connect all points of some arbitrary equal elevation on the ground.

Rolling terrain

Which of the following statements is not true about rolling terrains?

Meander

A street pattern ideal for mountainous sites as it helps vehicles climb without the path being too steep.

Variety

A quality that affects the range of uses available to people in a given place.

Urban form

The visible form of the built-up areas which is sometimes equated with "townscape."

Summit

The best location to place a sanctuary when developing a site for a retreat center.

Territoriality

The concept of personal space.

Cul-de-sac

A street that opens only to one end with a provision for a practical turnaround at the other.

local character

Good urban design supports

Urban sprawl

These are principles of Urban Design except

Three Human Factors in Design

The physical, physiological, and psychological factors used to inform design.

Widening of roads to lessen traffic in a neighborhood

The principle of New Urbanism promotes the following, except

The streets, transit routes, pedestrian walks are referred to as the nerves

In the body of urban form, which of the following is not true

Need for sushi

The following are Psychological Needs, except:

Storm surge

The result of high winds forcing water ashore above normal tide levels.

Square

An area framed by buildings and designed to exhibit its buildings to the greatest advantage.

Brown

The specific color used for contour lines in topographic maps.

architects

stakeholders

politicians

People involved in Urban Design Activity

Increase

In the principle of New Urbanism, it is best to_____the density of a place to enable a more efficient use of service

Walkability

Quality of a good urban space.

Tropical

A climatic region characterized by torrential rainfall, high temperature, and storm winds or typhoons.

Soil

Bearing capacity, stability, erodibility, and fertility are attributes of:

survey

A checklist of information or data pertaining to a site:

Permeability

The quality that affects where people can or cannot go within a space.

North

In Manila City, floor-ceiling picture windows are best to be located on which side of the building?

Genius loci

The spirit, distinct atmosphere, or experience/phenomenon of a place.

Land breeze

A local wind system characterized by an air flow from land to water late at night.

Abraham Maslow

The individual who articulated the Hierarchy of Needs.

landforms

What is not a climatic factor influencing human comfort?

Physical capital

Infrastructure assets such as buildings, machines, roads, power plants, and ports.

Heritage

A core element of urban design that serves as an important source of character.

Site planning

The art of arranging structures on the land and shaping the spaces between them.

Grid

The most practical of street layouts.

Placemaking

The activity of creating places for people that carry meaning and identity.

By its form and function

Two ways to categorize squares or plazas are;

veins

In the body of urban form, the streets, transit routes, pedestrian walks are referred to as the

Boulevard

Which is not considered a Major Road?

Philippine Statistics Authority

Which does not belong to the group? Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seism

Grading

The remodeling of existing landform to facilitate the functions and circulation of the site.

Construction plans

Which is least likely to be a part of a systematic study of urban morphology?

Sense of place

Well-designed buildings and groups of buildings work together to create

unique character

One way to strengthen the image of the city is through