Housing
This fiscal policy was used to racially segregate American cities by systematically denying people from certain neighborhoods loans and other services in the 30s and 40s.
What is redlining?
This interurban rail system serviced the majority of the East Bay, funneling riders to San Francisco's Transbay Terminal.
The Key System
Edward Said coined two terms related to the man-made division between the "Global North" and the "Global South." If the Global South is dubbed "Oriental," what is the Global North counterpart?
What is "Occidental?"
This major greenhouse gas is released through the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil
CO2
This professor is a commonality amongst all CED (non-transfer) majors, teaching a first-semester freshman course that emphasizes thinking like a designer.
Who is Tom Chastain
Every city in California has to zone for a certain number of housing units designated by this number.
What is Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA)?
In 1989, this transit system continued operations hours after a historic 6.9 magnitude earthquake
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
Which place has (arguably) the best cultural recognition for Indigenous Peoples in the entire world?
What is New Zealand? (Māori people and language recognized nationally.)
Passed in 1970, this landmark California state law requires public agencies to identify, disclose, and mitigate significant environmental impacts of the proposed development projects.
CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act)
This non-planner is famous for their powerful opening line of their book, "This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding".
Who was Jane Jacobs?
The televised demolition of this public housing project in the 1970s is commonly seen as the end of the American public housing experiment.
What is Pruitt-Igoe?
Situated within the western hemisphere, this city's metro system primarily uses rubber tired trains due to the city's soft foundations
The Mexico City Metro
W.E.B. Du Bois states that the struggle of Black Americans is intrinsically linked to anti-colonial struggles in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Where does he base the American struggle?
What is the state of Georgia?
This phenomenon is where cities experienced significantly higher temperatures than surrounding rural areas due to higher amounts of concrete, asphalt, and human activity
Urban heat Island Effect
The California General Plan contains 7 major elements which guide our statewide planning and policy decisions. Name 2 of these elements.
What are Land Use, Open Space, Conservation, Circulation, Housing, Safety, and/or Noise (also Environmental Justice).
This former Berkeley faculty member was the primary author of the Housing Act of 1937 and an advisor on housing to multiple presidents.
Who is Catherine Bauer Wurster?
Built in 1896, this European metro system has never seen an expansion from it's initial Victorian service route
What year is the Agenda for Sustainable Development set for, in which governments commit to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” (OHCHR, Goal 11)?
What is the year 2030?
This economic concept describes how shared, open-access resources get overused and depleted because individuals act in their own self interest.
Tragedy of the commons
Construction on Bauer Wurster Hall, the first building to house all design majors under one roof in the U.S., finished construction in this year.
When was 1964
This kind of organization aims to partially decommodify housing by removing land from the private real estate market and selling long-term ground leases to tenants.
What are Community Land Trusts (CLTs)?
This East Asian city's metro has the distinction for being the first ever to be fully recreated in Minecraft.
Hong Kong
What event caused a worldwide conservative mindset/movement towards refugees, asylum seekers, and stateless peoples?
What is the Tampa Affair? (August 2001, Indonesian asylum seekers violently demanded to land on Christmas Island, Australia, when helped by the cargo ship, the Tampa.)
Silent Spring focuses heavily on the devastating ecological impact of this pesticide
DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)
Planners do not get much representation in pop culture. However, on the TV show Parks and Recreation, this city planner is featured throughout all of Season 1 and most of Season 2, until he ultimately leaves to transition from public to private sector work (we know this pipeline all too well).
Who is Mark Brendanawicz