Corbusier Chronicles
Urban Tapestry: Historical Threads
Rational Realms
Potpourri
Deja Vu
100

Le Corbusier was a pioneer of this architectural movement that emphasized clean lines, geometric shapes, and a rejection of excessive ornamentation

Modernism

100

Named after a geometric shape, this term describes trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas

Triangular Trade

100

Post-WWII urban planners turned toward social sciences and established what we now call this type of planning.

Rational Planning

100

The author of “Seeing Like a State.”

James C. Scott

100

These two things happened during the most important period in the planning profession.

Industrial Revolution and Urbanization

200

Le Corbusier's vision for urban planning is best encapsulated in his concept of "Ville Radieuse”

Radiant City

200

A phrase coined to describe the belief that the United States was destined to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.

Manifest Destiny

200

A SWOT analysis includes an assessment of these four factors.

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

200

The movement of over 7 million African Americans fleeing the South to relocate to northern cities.

The Great Migration

200

These are the four tasks of planning Beauregard focuses on.

knowing, engaging, prescribing and executing

300

“city of the future”

Bijlmermeer

300

New Deal three R's

relief, recovery, reform

300

A term that prioritizes the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

Utilitarianism

300

Another name for the Homeowner’s Loan Corporation’s residential security maps.

Redlining maps

300

The four principles Le Corbusier urges planners to follow.

de-congest the centers of cities, augment their density, increase transportation methods, increase parks and open spaces

400

Le Corbusier famously designed this city in India

Chandigarh

400

by 1860, more millionaires were living in the Lower Mississippi Valley than anywhere else in the U.S. They were all _________.

enslavers

400

According to James C. Scott, this type of mindset seeks to impose a simplified, rational order on society through large-scale, centralized planning.

high-modernism

400

A wide array of practical skills and acquired intelligence in responding to a constantly changing natural and human environment.

Metis

400

The generic term for those intellectual and affective activities in which individuals engage to explore their experiences to lead to a new understanding and appreciation.

Reflective practice

500

refers to Le Corbusier’s urban planning concept that emphasizes the separation of different types of traffic into three distinct roadway networks

triple system

500

This era of US history included major social reforms, economic regulation, consumer protections, and women’s suffrage.

The Progressive Era

500

The first and last steps of the classic rational planning process.

First: establish goals and objectives 

Last: evaluate the plan

500

This was a radical and coercive agricultural policy that aimed to transform individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled collective farms in the Soviet Union.

Collectivization

500

This legislation addressed the issue of slums and promoted the development of public housing in the United States.

Housing Act of 1937 or The Wagner-Steagall Act

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