CRProfessor Facts
City Grids & Photos
Central Coast Facts
Famous Planning Figures
CA State Law
100
This professor hosts a study abroad program in Lisbon, Portugal.
Who is Vicente del Rio?
100
There is only one Splash Cafe left and it is in this city.
What is Pismo Beach?
100
This local spot is known for Cal Poly club-hosted bonfires.
What is Grover Beach?
100
Keep your eyes on this famous planner, they are seen as the most prominent critic of modernist planning.
Who is Jane Jacobs?
100
This Senate Bill allows for the creation of up to two units or splitting lots into two parcels in single-family zones.
What is SB 9?
200
Coca-Cola is the favorite drink of this professor.
Who is Adrienne Greve?
200
The first American tunneled subway was built in this city.
Where is Boston?
200
The Morro Bay smokestacks once towered above an energy production plant built by this corporation.
What is PG&E?
200
America's capital owes a lot of its city design to this French-American engineer, architect, and urban designer.
Who is Pierre L'Enfant?
200
This Senate Bill makes the approval process for affordable housing projects easier in areas which haven't met housing goals.
What is SB 35?
300
Professor Ryan Sandwick completed his City Planning Master's degree abroad in this city.
Where is Glasgow?
300
It is a city well-known for its cycling infrastructure and rejection of car-centric planning.
What is Copenhagen?
300
A quick trip away from Cal Poly, this tourist attraction was once home to the world's largest private zoo.
What is the Hearst Castle?
300
When you think of the City Beautiful movement, you think of this person.
Who is Daniel Burnham?
300
This Senate Bill mandates 100% renewable/zero-carbon electricity by 2045.
What is SB 100?
400
This Cal Poly professor previously worked as a custodian/janitor.
Who is Dave Amos?
400
Beep beep!! This American city was where the first urban highway, known as the Davison Freeway, was created.
What is Detroit?
400
California's first public library was located in this Central Coast town, also associated with writer John Steinbeck.
What is Monterey?
400
The founder of a major urban research and design consulting firm, this person is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Who is Jan Gehl?
400
This Senate Bill will make it faster and easier to build multi-family housing near transit stops, like train and rapid bus lines, by making it legal for more homes to be built in these areas.
What is SB 79?
500
This Cal Poly professor lived in Barcelona for a year
Who is Chris Clark?
500
It builds vertically and averages around 220 dwellings per acre of residential land.
What is Tokyo?
500
Highway One was completed in many phases, but it was first approved in this year.
What is 1919?
500
He is considered the father of landscape architecture.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
500
Known as the Building Homeownership For All Act, this will create more affordable homeownership opportunities for working families by providing tax credits for the construction of for-sale homes affordable to Californians who earn moderate incomes.
What is AB 595?