Urban Planning
Complete Streets
Los Angeles
Acronyms
*Very Difficult*
100
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?
100
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?
100
The world's first monorail can be found at this local attraction.
What is Disneyland?
100
MPO
What is a Metropolitan Planning Organization?
100
The late actor James Avery played this character in the '90s hit The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Who is Uncle Phil?
200
The first planned park in the United States.
What is Central Park?
200
A dedicated-lane facility often delineated by use of red paint.
What is a Bus-/Transit-Only Lane?
200
The Regional Transportation Planning Agency for Los Angeles.
What is SCAG?
200
DD (i.e. DD-43-R1 - Managed Lane System Plan Guidelines)
What is a Deputy Directive?
200
The 1996 Summer Olympics were held in this US city.
Where is Atlanta?
300
Development within unused and underutilized lands within existing development patterns, typically but not exclusively in urban areas.
What is Infill Development?
300
Ground surface indicators designed to assist and warn pedestrians who are blind or visually impaired.
What are Truncated Domes?
300
Popularized by Elon Musk, this transportation concept utilizes a network of tunnels and sealed low-pressure systems. A prototype of this concept was first introduced in Hawthorne, Ca.
What is the Hyperloop?
300
SHOPP
What is the State Highway Operation and Protection Program?
300
A discriminatory practice in which services are withheld from potential customers who reside in neighborhoods classified as "hazardous" to investment; these neighborhoods have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities, and low-income residents.
What is redlining?
400
This City is known for their famous urban design concept - Superblock or Superilla
What is Barcelona?
400
A Program created by Senate Bill 99 and Assembly Bill 101 to encourage increased use of active modes of transportation such as biking and walking. A primary means of achieving this increased use is through the administration of a discretionary funding program.
What is the Active Transportation Program?
400
Constructed in the early 1960s, this highly scrutinized freeway interchange project once bisected the vibrant community of Boyle Heights. Four routes converge at the interchange: US 101, I-5, I-10, and SR 60.
What is the East LA Interchange?
400
TPSIS
What is the Transportation Planning Scoping Information Sheet?
400
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?
500
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was written by this author (hint: she sought to protect Lower Manhattan neighborhoods from urban renewal through grassroots activism).
Who is Jane Jacobs?
500
In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake significantly damaged this San Francisco freeway resulting in its ultimate demise. Through urban revitalization, this corridor is now enjoyed by families as a complete streets thoroughfare to access the Ferry Building and Oracle Park - home to the SF Giants.
What is the Embarcadero Freeway?
500
The Pacific Electric Railway Company was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s. They primarily operated this electrically powered streetcar and buses.
What is the 'Red Car'?
500
CATEX
What is a Categorical Exclusion?
500
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?