Urban Planning
The rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation.
What is Sprawl?
A dedicated-lane facility often denoted by use of red paint.
What is a Bus-/Transit-Only Lane?
16 miles of new Express Lanes just opened on this freeway.
What is I-405?
Eric participates in this type of athletic event every year.
What are Marathons?
The late actor James Avery played this character in the '90s hit The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Who is Uncle Phil?
The first planned park in the United States.
What is Central Park?
A depression in the sidewalk concrete at a street intersection to allow wheelchairs and other wheeled vehicles ease of access to crosswalks.
What is a Curb Ramp?
The world's first monorail can be found at this local attraction.
What is Disneyland?
I went to school with an LDR staff where we regularly participated in group projects together.
Who is Jesus Navidad?
The four key ingredients used by Professor Utonium to create three superpowered sisters - protectors of Townsville.
What is Sugar, Spice, Everything Nice, and Chemical X?
Development within unused and underutilized lands within existing development patterns, typically but not exclusively in urban areas.
What is Infill Development?
Ground surface indicators designed to assist and warn pedestrians who are blind or visually impaired.
What are Truncated Domes?
The Regional Transportation Planning Agency for Orange County.
What is SCAG?
I met my fiancé while working at the Finding Nemo Submarine Disneyland attraction.
Who is Zach Paul?
An Executive Order put in place by Governor Gavin Newson to combat the climate crisis and put in place a statewide goal for 100-percent of in-state vehicle sales to be zero-emission by 2035.
What is EO N-79-20?
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was written by this author.
Who is Jane Jacobs?
A non-profit, member-controlled organization that provides transportation services in a particular area, such as a commercial district, mall, medical center or industrial park. They are generally public-private partnerships, consisting primarily of area businesses with local government support (i.e. ART, iShuttle, etc.)
What is a Transportation Management Association (TMA)?
The 241 Tollway was stopped from expanding through this south Orange County city.
What is San Clemente?
I won a creative writing award in 8th grade and have the personal cell phone number of a member of the Angels front office.
Who is Brendan Latimer?
An American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the United Farmworkers Association. She is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
Often known as a failure of modern urban policy, this St Louis public housing project remains a powerful symbol of the social, racial and architectural tensions that dogged America's cities in the mid-20th century.
What is Pruitt Igoe?
A form of electromagnetic detection technology that is embedded within pavement and uses an alternating current to induce an electric current in a nearby wire. They are commonly laid out in a circular shape.
What is an Inductive Loop Detector?
This military base closed in 1999 to make way for the current Irvine Great Park.
What is the El Toro Marine Station?
In the past 10 years, I have traveled to China, Spain, Poland, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, and Canada.
Who is Joseph Jamoralin?
Ville radieuse was an unrealised urban design project designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1930. It constitutes one of the most influential and controversial urban design doctrines of European modernism.
What is the Radiant City?