Notable Buildings
The Shard, The Gherkin, Saint Peter's Cathedral, Big Ben
What is London?
This pro football team chose their colors because of UIUC's colors
What are the Chicago Bears?
A day every year where urban planners come together to show how inefficient parking spaces are and how that space can be used for other community amenities (UIUC does this once a year too!)
What is Parking Day?
The urban planning advisor
Who is Alice Novak?
Museum of Pop Culture, Amazon, Space Needle
What is Seattle?
This campus building was designed by a UIUC architecture student
What is the basketball stadium?
The process where the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process
What is gentrification?
The first urban planning class you'll take at Illinois
What is UP 101 Intro to City Planning with Lindsey Braun?
Lotus Temple, Taj Mahal, Agra Fort
What is India?
This dessert necessity was invented by a UIUC grad student
What is whipped cream in a can?
A discriminatory practice where housing loans were denied to people of color in "undesirable neighborhoods" in the mid-1900s, resulting in housing inequality and wealth disparity
What is redlining?
The name of this building
What is Temple Hoyne Buell Hall?
Saint Basils Cathedral, Red Square, Sparrow Hills
What is Moscow?
Name a famous alumnus
Nick Offerman, Sean Evans, Hugh Hefner, James Holzhauer, Founder of Youtube, Founder of PayPal, Creator of JavaScript, etc.
This New York woman fought for neighborhood rights, was a voice for community justice through her "walks," and is known as one of the founders of modern-day urbanism
Who is Jane Jacobs?
The name of the urban planning club
What is the Student Planning Organization (SPO)?
Changi Airport, Gardens by the Bay, Hill Street Building, Tanjong Pagar Centre
What is Singapore?
Name a movie that features UIUC
What are Some Like It Hot, Risky Business, With Honors (film location), Blues Brothers, 2001: A Space Odyssey (the computer Hal was born at the university) and Kicking and Screaming?
A new development strategy created by Richard Florida of attracting creative and educated people to cities
What is the Creative Class?
The concentrations of BAUSP
What are Policy and Planning, Sustainability, Global Cities, and Social Justice?