Casey's Deck Flashcards
(127 cards)
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A superstructure on a roof, dome, or tower, glazed along its sides, which admits light to the area below.
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Lantern
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Structures or plants which, because of their form and location, reduce wind velocities.
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Windbreak
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The land surrounding a flowing stream over which water spreads when a flood occurs.
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Flood Plain
4
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The soil layer beneath the topsoil
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Subsoil
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The study of the relationship between people and the urban environment in which they live.
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Urban Ecology
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Earth that is replaced around a foundation or retaining wall after the concrete forms have been removed.
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Backfill
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A stone guard to prevent damage to a wall; also a freestanding stone post to divert vehicular traffic.
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Bollard
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A part of a highway marked off to carry a single line of moving vehicles.
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Lane
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The general pattern of movement of the water on, under and above the earth.
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Water Cycle
10
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To summarize; to get to the essence of something.
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Abstract
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A portico used in Greek architecture, often as a covered meeting place or promenade.
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Stoa
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The restoration or substantial improvement of a building.
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Rehabilitation
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A hole drilled into the ground at the site of a proposed structure in order to obtain samples of the subsurface soil for examination and testing in a laboratory. Based on these tests, the soils engineer recommends the type of foundation and the allowable soil bearing pressure.
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Test Boring
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The surface flow of water from an area.
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Run-off
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The percentage of total rainfall which is not absorbed in the ground and, hence, runs off. It must be collected in a system of surface and subsurface drains.
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Runoff Coefficient
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As used by Lynch, a point of reference in a city that cannot be entered into or traversed.
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Landmark
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The boundary line of a lot.
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Lot Line
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A structural member placed over an opening and supporting construction above.
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Lintel
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A long-range, overall plan or concept for an area’s development.
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Master Plan
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The most important city of a country, state or region; or any large, busy city.
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Metropolis
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The 18th century social or economic movement, begun in England, that mechanized the productive processes by substituting machine power for hand power.
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Industrial Revolution
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The point at which two streets come together or cross.
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Intersection
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The wedge-shaped top member of an arch.
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Keystone
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the smallest identifiable parcel of land in a city.
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Lot
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An underground pipe or drain used to carry off rain water (storm sewer) or waste matter (sanitary sewer).
Sewer
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A form of real estate tenancy in which the lessee has the right to use a piece of property under conditions described in the lease.
Leasehold
27
An ecological system, consisting of a community of living organisms and its physical environment.
Ecosystem
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A high-speed, multiple-lane highway designed to move traffic smoothly and without interruption. Also called a freeway.
Expressway
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A continuous and unobstructed means of egress to a public way generally with a minimum width of 44 inches.
Exit
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The digging or removal of earth.
Excavation
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A balanced arrangement of elements on either side of a dividing line or plane.
Symmetry
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A method of research consisting of the identification of a problem, the collection of relevant data, the formulation of a hypothesis, and the testing of that hypothesis.
Scientific Method
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The process of determining location, form, and boundaries of a parcel of land by measurement, computation, and drawing.
Survey
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the relationship of the sizes of building elements.
Proportion
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The configuration of the surface features of an area of ground.
Topography
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The heat transfer process which occurs when a warm fluid rises, displacing cold fluid which then falls.
Convection
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The total horizontal area within the boundary lines of a parcel of land.
Lot Area
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A street which carries relatively low traffic and provides access to low-intensity uses which front on it.
Local Access Street
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A fictitious temperature which would produce the same physiological effect as the combined effects of temperatures, humidity and air movement.
Effective Temperature
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the slight convexity of a column, used to overcome the optical illusion of concavity that would occur if the column were straight.
Entasis
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The state of being a harmonious combination of elements.
Unity
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The intersection of two roads at different levels so that vehicles may move from one road to the other without crossing the stream of traffic. Also called interchange.
Grade Separation
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Composed of design elements originally derived from diverse sources or styles.
Hybrid
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Designing the external physical environment in which buildings and structures are placed.
Site Planning
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In far eastern architecture, a tower-like structure, often used as a shrine.
Pagoda
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A continuous, major street, typically two or three lanes in each direction, that connects with the expressways at strategic locations.
Arterial Street
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A use not strictly allowed in zoning ordinance, but permitted if specified conditions are met and if approval is granted by the local governing body.
Conditional Use
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A graded flow path used in open drainage systems.
Swale
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An arrangement which tends to keep people apart, such as back-to-back seating in an airline terminal waiting room.
Sociofugal
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A set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps.
Algorithm
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A platform raised above floor level.
Dais
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The eastern or alter end of a church, usually semi-circular in plan.
Apse
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An inner court open to the sky, but surrounded by a roof.
Atrium
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The French term for the columns that raise a building off the ground, as used by Le Corbusier.
Piloti
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A community of people living in a general area, which can generally support an elementary school.
Neighborhood
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A commemorative shaft, square in section, with a small pyramid on top.
Obelisk
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The number of people or families per unit of area.
Population Density
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Lynch's term for a city's circulation routes.
Paths
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Separating into component parts; reducing to a simpler form.
Resolution
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A curved structure composed of wedge-shaped elements, used to span an opening.
Arch
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Ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human.
Anthropomorphic
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A buttressing or supporting structure.
Abutment
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An arena encircled by tiers of seats.
Amphitheater
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A statement supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
Premise
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An original model after which something is patterned; a prototype.
Archetype
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A bell tower
Campanile
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A circular space covered by a dome.
Rotunda
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The rate of slope between two points on a surface, determined by dividing their vertical difference in elevation by their horizontal distance apart.
Gradient
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In urban planning, an outlying community of secondary importance, dependent on a larger city.
Satellite
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Paving using crushed stone.
Macadam
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The difference of elevation between adjacent contour lines.
Contour Interval
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A typical pattern of urban development formed by a grid street system with two or more corridors of intense development intersecting at a central core.
Rectilinear Pattern
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The entrance vestibule of a church.
Narthex
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The process by which water vapor escapes into the atmosphere from plants.
Transpiration
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The hierarchical order in a society by which some individuals or groups control others.
Dominance
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Appropriation of private property for public use, together with acceptance for such use by a public agency.
Dedication
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An independent living area which includes its own private cooking and bathing facilities.
Dwelling Unit
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Flow from a culvert, sewer or other channel.
Discharge
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The topmost section of an entablature.
Cornice
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A circulation pattern in which channels spread out from a central point.
Radial Pattern
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The study of the form or structure of anything.
Morphology
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A repetitive dimension used in architectural design and planning.
Module
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A stone of great size, especially in ancient construction.
Megalith
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A freestanding canopy supported by columns symbolically sheltering an altar, throne or tomb.
Baldacchino
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An arrangement that is neat, efficient, harmonious and comprehensible.
Order
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The purpose for which a building is intended to be used.
Occupancy
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The aesthetic or pleasurable features of a place or facility.
Amenities
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A building or portion thereof used for the gathering together of 50 or more persons.
Assembly Building
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A system of standardized units or sections for simplified construction or flexibility.
Modular
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Referring to a disability which makes a person unable to walk an therefore confined to a wheelchair.
Non-ambulatory
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Standards or rules by which something is tested.
Criteria
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The geographic area from which the participants in an activity are drawn, such as the customers of a shopping center or the employees of a manufacturing plant.
Catchment
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A three-dimensional volume that has density and bulk.
Mass
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Special permission granted to an owner permitting a deviation from zoning requirements normally applicable to the property in question.
Variance
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A law by which a government regulates and controls the character and use of property.
Zoning Ordinance
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The legal means whereby land use is regulated and controlled for the welfare of the community.
Zoning
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The right held by one party to make limited use of the property of another.
Easement
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A use for property which is no longer permitted by the zoning ordinance. Unless it is unsafe, such a use is generally allowed to continue.
Nonconforming Use
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The volume within which a building may legally be placed.
Zoning Envelope
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A determining factor or characteristic.
Parameter
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A flat or level surface.
Plane
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Construction to resist the spread of fire, as specified in the applicable building code.
Fire-resistive Construction
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The unique characteristics of a place which relate to a specific behavior or a particular activity.
Behavior Setting
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Derived from observation, experience or experiment, and not based on theory.
Empirical
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The separation of an entity into its components, so that it may be examined.
Analysis
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A bank of earth, often piled up against a wall.
Berm
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The type, arrangement and quality of dwelling units in a given area.
Housing
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A division of urban land, normally private property, which is surrounded by public streets, and which is officially established and recorded.
Block
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In Roman architecture, an oblong building used for public administration, from which early Christian churches evolved.
Basilica
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Pertaining to symbolic representation of ideas or subjects by means of images.
Iconographic
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The study of the quality, aspects and perception of beauty.
Aesthetics
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The science of sound and sound control.
Acoustics
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The rate at which a given material conducts heat, per inch of thickness.
Conductivity (k)
114
An area of land designed for industrial uses and developed as a unit.
Industrial Park
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An imaginary line on the ground surface connecting all points of equal elevation.
Contour
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The elimination of segregation or discrimination in public facilities by making such facilities available to persons of all races.
Integration
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A term used by Lynch to describe the ease with which parts of a city can be recognized and organized into a coherent pattern. Also known as legibility.
Imageability
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Referring to construction in which fire resistance is obtained by using wood structural members of specified minimum sizes.
Heavy Timber
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A consistent, orderly or pleasing arrangement of the elements of a building or other work.
Harmony
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One of many apartment units contained in a multi-floor building and accessible by elevators.
High-rise Apartment
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One or more spaces designated for physically handicapped persons, requiring special design and dimensions.
Handicapped Parking
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A form of land ownership in which the owner has absolute title, which can be transferred by sale or bequest.
Fee Simple
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A concept developed by Ebenezer Howard in which all land would be owned by the community, the city would be economically balanced and self-contained and a permanent belt of farmland would surround the city.
Garden City
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A public body which provides and manages housing, particularly for low-income families.
Housing Authority
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A style of European architecture developed in the late Renaissance in reaction to classical forms, characterized by elaborate curves, scrolls and ornamentation.
Baroque
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A type of residential siting in which a series of housing units are grouped closely together and surrounded by open space.
Cluster
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A preliminary sketch or plan
Equisse
