Chicago a la carte
What was the name of the historic fair housed in Chicago in 1893?
Chicago World’s Fair/Columbian Exposition 🎡
The name for a "pedestrian highway" is _____
Pediway
What's the weirdest thing that was invented in Coney Island?
The Beer Dispensing Cow, The Tunnel of Love, The Barrel, The Horse, Streetlamp??
What is the main characteristic of a metropolis?
High density population
A garden space on elevated planes as a refuge from urban intensity
Sky garden
What natural resource did Chicago fail to efficiently source?
Potable Water 🌊☔️🐋
What was the invention that allowed for the creation of the skyscraper?
What does the Oyster Man represent as a larger picture?
Something about skyscrapers and/or place vs function and/or the 20th century metropolis growth (supplemental answer)
Every resident of Hong Kong over the age of 11 carries one of these
Identity card
The name of a set of two interlocking stairways that saves space and ensures each enclosure is fire rated
Scissor stair
What was the name of the underground system used to transport goods?
Freight Rail 🚇🧨⚰️
The first supertall building in Asia was the 72 floor ________ built in Hong Kong in 1990.
Bank of China Building
In Rem Koolhaas' view, what is the most telling sign of the metropolitan condition?
The elevator
There are ____ cars per 1000 people in Hong Kong
72
Volumetric intensity is a condition exemplified in ___________, where 35,000 people lived and worked in a one million cubic meter volume over a small (2.7 hectare) site.
Kowloon Walled City
In what book did the article Chicago a la Carte first appear?
Architectural Design 📖
The Smithfield municipal services building includes 3 floors of markets, a library, administrative offices, a playroom and study center. Above this on the top three floors there are ______.
Sporting facilities with archery, squash, dance, basketball, and badminton.
Hong Kong has the largest number of _____ per capita in the world.
Escalators
The name of the building with two front doors - one on the "ground floor" and one 17 floors above
The Hopewell Center
How were the buildings of packing town described?
ugly and dirty little wooden buildings...🏚️🏚️🏚️
Who invented the elevator in NYC?
Elisha Otis
The concept of time
When population rapidly increases within limited space and results in a hyperdense area, what is the first sign of urbanism and the metropolis?
Evolution of technology
The name of the island where people live in stilt houses
Lantau Island