Urban Planning Flashcards
(25 cards)
Comprehensive Plan:
A long-term plan created by a city to guide land use, development, housing, transportation, and community services.
Zoning:
The process of dividing land into zones or districts to regulate how property in each area can be used (e.g., residential, commercial, industrial).
Subdivision/Platting:
Dividing land into smaller lots.
Metropolitan planning:
Regional planning that addresses issues like transportation, air quality, water, sewer, and utilities across a central city and its surrounding suburbs to ensure coordinated growth and infrastructure.
Redlining:
A discriminatory practice where banks and insurers denied services (like loans or insurance) to people in certain neighborhoods—often based on race or income—by marking those areas in red on ma
Levittown:
One of the first mass-produced suburban housing developments in the U.S., built after World War II by Levitt & Sons, known for affordable, cookie-cutter homes that symbolized postwar suburban growth.
Village of Euclid vs Amber Realty Company:
Legalized Zoning
Dolan vs City of Tigard:
Wanted to expand but city said to add trail and pay but supreme court said no and made city pay.
Kelo v City of New London:
Ruled that a city can forcibly take land, buy, and sell the land.
Ebenezer Howard:
Created the Garden City idea—small, green, planned cities outside big cities to balance nature and urban life.
Pierre Charles L’Enfant:
Designed the original plan for Washington, D.C., with grand avenues, open spaces, and a grid layout.
Garden City - Ebenezer Howard:
A planned town with homes, jobs, and green space, designed to be self-sustained and surrounded by nature.
Missing middle housing:
Small-scale housing types like duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes that fill the gap between single-family homes and large apartment buildings, often walkable and community-focused.
Age friendly community:
A place designed to support older adults with walkable streets, accessible housing, transportation, and nearby healthcare.
Vancouver, Canada:
A major city known for rejecting inner-city highways and focusing on walkability, public transit, and livable urban design.
Curitiba, Brazil:
A model city for its Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, public parks, libraries, and integrated schools.
Bogota, Columbia:
Known for its Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), weekly Ciclovía (car-free streets for bikes and pedestrians), and connected parkway system to promote mobility and public space.
Daniel Burnham:
Leader of the City Beautiful Movement; created the 1909 Plan of Chicago; famous for saying “Make no little plans”; inspired urban beautification, including Minneapolis’ parkway system.
Le Corbusier:
Modernist planner known for the “tower in the park” idea—high-rise buildings surrounded by open green space to separate living from city chaos.
Robert Moses:
Did whatever he wanted for urban planning and ignored communities.
Jane Jacobs:
Urban activist who was citizen-led planning focused on walkability, mixed-use neighborhoods, and vibrant street life.
Rational Model:
A step-by-step planning approach that uses data, goals, and analysis to find the most logical solution to a problem.
1st Amendment:
Protects freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and petition — important for public input and community organizing in planning.
5th Amendment:
Protects against the government taking private property without “just compensation” — forms the basis for eminent domain laws.
