Atlas - Planning & Landscape

Question 1

• Provide unity throughout contiguous urban areas
• Usually form boundaries for neighborhoods
• Minor access control; channelized intersection; parking generally prohibited

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Major roads

Question 2

Major arterial; highways, bi-ways, expressways, super-highways, freeways, motorways, autobahns

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Major roads

Question 3

• Main feeder streets
• Signals where needed
• Stop signs on side streets
• Occasionally form boundaries for neighborhoods

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Secondary roads

Question 4

Minor arterial; avenue, boulevard

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Secondary roads

Question 5

• Main interior streets

- Stop signs on side streets

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Collector streets

Question 6

• Local service streets

- Non-conducive to through traffic

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Local streets

Question 7

Dead end, turn around, T junction, Y junction, hammer, loop

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Cul-de-Sac

Question 8

• Street open only to one end with provision for a practical turnaround at the other

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Cul-de-Sac

Question 9

More difficult to manage but creates a far more interesting land development

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Rolling terrain

Question 10

The decline of the social, physical, and economic fabric of a city, usually located in the oldest part of the settlement

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Urban decay

Question 11

The process whereby a previously functioning city or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude

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Urban decay

Question 12

It may feature deindustrialization, depopulation or changing population, economic restructuring, abandoned buildings, high local unemployment fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate, inhospitable city landscape.

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Urban decay

Question 13

A geographically localized community within a larger city town or suburb. They are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members.

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Neighborhood

Question 14

Generally defined spatially as a specific geographic area and functionally as a set of social networks. They are then the spatial units in which face-to-face social interactions occur - the personal settings and situations where residents seek to realize common values, socialize youth, and maintain effective social control

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Neighborhood

Question 15

An area of a town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or which has a particular feature that makes it different from surrounding areas

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District

Question 16

A tract of land forming a passageway, such as one that allows inland access to another town or city

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Corridor

Question 17

A central element of urban planning and urban design

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Block

Question 18

The smallest area that is surrounded by streets

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City block

Question 19

The space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, form the basic unit of a city’s urban fabric

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City block

Question 20

Maybe subdivided into any number of smaller lots or parcels of land usually in private ownership, though in some cases, it may be other forms of tenure

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City block

Question 21

Usually built-up to varying degrees and thus form the physical containers or “street walls” of public space

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City block

Question 22

Means “returning the existing fabric of a place to a known earlier state by removing accretions or by reassembling existing components without the introduction of new material”

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Restoration

Question 23

“Maintaining the fabric of a place in its existing state and retarding deterioration”

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Preservation

Question 24

Combined elements of the Concentric Zone Theory and Sector Theory with certain other factors to explain landuse

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Multiple Nuclei Theory

Question 25

Multiple Nuclei Theory proponents

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Harris and Ullman

Question 26

A generally undesirable condition where an organism’s numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat

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Overpopulation

Question 27

Entails the detailed process of determining the location and area of land required for the realization of social and economic development policies, plans, programs, and projects. It is based on considerations of physical standards, development vision, goals and objectives, analysis of actual and potential physical conditions, development constraints and opportunities.

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Land use planning

Question 28

Refers to number of individuals who can be supported in a given area within natural resource limits and without degrading the natural social cultural and environment for present and future generations

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Carrying capacity

Question 29

A rational, systematic guide for identifying those areas which are more suitable for development and identifying those areas which are less suitable for development

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Land suitability analysis