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FILL IN THE BLANKS. Provide the word/phrase which would make the
sentence correct.
1. Civic art has been defined as a way to enhance cities, strengthen
neighborhoods and provide color and character to public spaces.
2. A sidewalk gives pedestrians a safe place for walking or strolling.
3. Smart Growth is an Urban Planning and Transportation theory that
concentrates in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl. It
advocates compact, transit-oriented, walkable, bicycle-friendly land
use, including neighborhood schools, complete streets, and mixed-use
development.
4. The metropolitan region is a fundamental economic unit of the
contemporary world. Governmental cooperation, public policy, physical
planning, and economic strategies must reflect this new reality.
5. The development and redevelopment of towns and cities should respect
historical patterns, precedents, and boundaries.
6. The edges are linear elements not used or considered as paths by the
observer.
7. Urban or municipal infrastructure refers to hard infrastructure systems
generally owned and operated by municipalities, such as streets, water
distribution, and sewers.
8. When a community planning is aimed to please the society it becomes a
manipulative approach.
9. A design charrette is an intensive planning session where citizens,
designers and others collaborate on a vision for development.
10.
Communal urban space (which is also referred to as a semi public urban space) is a space that is accessible to only a specific, well
defined, heterogeneous group of people and their visitors.
ACRONYMS.
1. PUD Planned Unit Development
2. BID Business Improvement District
3. CBD Central Business District
4. BMP- Best Management Practices
5. BRT Bus Rapid Transit
TRUE or FALSE. Write TRUE if the statement is correct. If it is false,
underline the word which makes the statement incorrect then provide the
right term to make the sentence correct.
1. Human scale is a design approach based on Greek and Roman
architecture that used building mass and proportions that were related
to the size of the human body. TRUE
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3. SECTOR MODEL
URBAN DESIGN
AS PROCESS
Non-Formal/Nonlinear Design
Approach
AS TECHNIQUE
Formal /Linear
Process
4. CONCENTRIC MODEL