Settlements and Water Towns
Name four public meeting place types that can anchor a roadside community?
A church, school, post office, general store, gas station, etc.
What is one characteristic of a Savannah style courthouse town?
The courthouse square is one block within grid street pattern or the courthouse is in the middle of the grid street pattern with streets coming in at corners.
What type of community is characterized by a nucleus or cluster of structures with non-residential uses, does not have a courthouse or railroad, and may form the shape of a V, T, etc.?
Crossroads communities.
What are the three variations of automobile strips? (hint: there are three)
Residential and Commercial Strips.
Residential Strips: Pre-automobile: strip developed because of the convenience of being located on the road - houses oriented to road with no driveways. Post-automobile: strip was planned and houses oriented to road have driveways.
Commercial Strips: set of commercial structures built along a road/highway all relating to the road but diverse in architecture, size, and function.
True or false: towns commonly developed on the same sites as former forts
False. They developed near but not around them.
What is the key characteristic a plantation community must have in order to be considered as that community type?
The plantation community must have tenant, slave, or family houses.
What is one characteristic of a Sparta courthouse model town? AND True or false: Does the Augusta courthouse model town features a prominently placed courthouse?
Any below:
False.
What distinguishes a 'crossroads town with railroad' from a 'cross-rail' town?
The community pre-dates the railroad in crossroads towns. The town also does not need to face the railroad nor is it the center of town, but it still plays an important role in morphology.
What type of strip has secondary streets that run perpendicular to the main streets, often winding and meandering? What influences this type of development?
Mountain Strips.
Topography influences the development of the secondary street system which is often partial or underdeveloped - the street patterns are not based on the square grid because they have to conform to the topography.
Name one characteristic of a military base.
They can be as large as small towns, they contain all support resources, development commonly occurs around base and relates physically to it or they feature uniform architectural styles.
Name a river crossing town in Georgia. Extra kudos if you can also name the river.
Florence, Columbus, or Fort Gains (Cattahoochee); Hawkinsville (Ocmulgee); St. Mary’s and Traders Hill (St. Mary’s); or Shell Bluff (Savannah).
Name two capitol towns.
Louisville and Milledgeville.
What type of rail-road community has a main road parallel to the railroad tracks through the middle of town? What type of rail-road community may have warehouses and dwellings but no depot?
The Railroad Strip has a main road parallel to the railroad tracks through the middle of town. Railroad Stops communities may have warehouses and dwellings but no depot.
Discuss the development of land use areas and name the three types.
When a community of any kind or origin reaches a certain indeterminate size, big enough to not be comprehended in one viewing, it is easier to understand it in terms of its component parts.
These contribute to and define the communities basic character and form – the component parts are going to be all of the remnants of the original foundations of the community.
Growth occurs in many forms at one time and in more than one direction, often obscuring the original remnants or altering them beyond recognition – larger communities will increase land use specializations and separation of functions so that different land uses are located in different parts of the town or city.
Industrial/Commercial and Central Business Districts, Subdivisions and Suburbs, and Black Sections.
Name two characteristics of a mill or industry village.
Industrial facility at the core of the village, located in proximity to an urban center but not always inside city limits, one or more inexpensive vernacular styles.
Why is Rome, Georgia considered a port town?
Any of the following:
True or false: the courthouse in market towns had less importance in relation to the overall plan.
True.
What type of community has a grid pattern that is oriented to the railroad tracks and may have triangular and irregular sections (may also have multiple rail lines coming into the community)?
Railroad Center.
What type of specialized land use community has a separate town center and separate residential area? What are some characteristics of this type of community?
Black Sections.
street grid incomplete, streets are narrow, lots and dwellings are small
What are the two types of temporary communities? Discuss some characteristics of the two.
Campgrounds and Construction Camps.
Campgrounds: special summer retreats used by social/philanthro/religious organizations. Distinguished by topographic respect in the way the streets, roads, and paths are formed - "rustic" architecture of buildings, roads, paths
Construction Camps: associated with railroad construction, mining, logging, saw milling, and development of utilities in the backcountry. Intended to be temporary - moved or demolished after construction is complete.
What characterizes a Savannah or Savannah plan town and name such a town?
Cities were designed by General james Oglethorpe with open square plan. Cities include Darien, Frederica, Ebenezer, Brunswick and Augusta.
Fill in the blank. A resort community is oriented towards _________?
Tourist features/attractions.
This type of community is formed based on the principles of wellness, sustainability, and connecting to nature. What type of community is it?
Utopian community.
What type of community is self-contained and removed from the urban center? (hint: the physical orientation reflects the role of the community)
Education centers.
While the dwellings and buildings of this type of community would have been demolished by white settlers, their road systems would have been retained.
Aboriginal communities.