City Destruction & Automobiles
Traffic arteries, parking lots, and gas stations are called "powerful and insistent instruments" of this.
What are Vehicles?
Jacobs believed that between horses and cars this is the better alternative.
What are cars?
This street design slows down public transit and causes users to walk extra blocks to get to bus stops going in particular directions.
What are One-Way streets?
Public transportation option made up of individual cars (usually yellow) that that citizens from place to place and doesn't need parking.
What are Taxis?
Large areas of a city designed to be moved through and not experienced.
What is Noplace?
The three blemishes that H. B. Creswell wrote were the "mark of the horse" on London streets in 1890.
What are the mud, the noise, and the smell?
A system of curved road-ways that forces users to drive longer distance to shorter destinations
What are Cul-de-sac
This is Jacob's solution to speeding up public transit.
What is shorter traffic lights"?
The overarching issue that causes all city planning designs to fail.
What is Traffic?
Jacobs claims that getting across LA after 5pm by car is the same speed as traveling by this
What is horse drawn carriage?
Large freeways that cut through downtown cities that "dumps" traffic into city centers
What is Dumpers?
A system of Parallel road-ways that gives alternative route through a city.
What is Grid system?
Jacobs proposed strategy to solve cities traffic problem
What is Transportation equilibrium/balance
This London street in 1890 was described as "the throbbing heart of the people's essential London."
What is horse hooves, wagon wheels, shouting from commerce?
Radiant City plan proposed dividing road-ways and pedestrian walk ways by different levels, and using ground floor of building for parking, was propose by who.
what is Le Cobusie
Gruen's plan included a ring road feeding into six huge oblong structures, each holding 10,000 cars. Was proposed for this city
What is Fort Worth?
These ladies stood on the font line to fight against the destruction of Washington Square Park
What is Mrs. Shirley Hayes and Mrs. Edith Lyons?
This decade saw the biggest change from horse traffic to vehicular traffic
What is the 1910s?
True or False: Jacobs believed both Le Corbusie and Bruen's plans were good solutions to the issue of traffic
What is false?
Jacobs said this American city is closest to reaching equilibrium.
What is Los Angeles?