Key Concepts
When there are mixed types of end uses in an urban area.
What is use mixture?
The term used to describe any way of getting around.
What is a transportation mode?
A physical barrier separating neighborhoods by race or class.
What are highways?
Color-coded maps for every metropolitan area in the United States that divide cities based on risk of making loans and assigned colors for risk.
What is Red Lining?
The point in the future in which an investment in more sustainable physical infrastructure pays off.
What is break-even point?
The name given to neighborhoods designed for residents to commute into the city, normally having no sidewalks and source neighborhoods.
What is an automobile suburb?
The area most in which major cities are built.
What is coastal?
The factor the efficiency of cars, buses, and trains rely on.
What is how many people are on it/use it?
The term generally used to refer to crop and livestock production within cities and surroundings.
What is urban farming?
An act that was implemented as an approach to designing and operating streets that safely accommodates pedestrians, bicyclists, drivers, and transit riders of all ages and abilities.
What is the Complete Street Act?
The program the U.S. Green Building Council created in 1998 to encourage sustainable building design, construction operation, and maintenance.
What is LEED?
The county that the world’s largest urban agriculture program comes from.
What is Cuba?
A scenario in which cooler air sits along the surface and warmer air lies above. (usually found in cities with a source of colder air and mountains that trap cold air in)
What is temperature inversion?
The reason the E no longer runs through Most of Jamaica Plan.
What is "temporary" bus lines?
The two main parts that difficulties of transitioning to sustainable development is split into.
What is physical infrastructure and cognitive?
The act that introduced 30 year mortgages and low fixed interest rates, allowing lower income people to afford a house.
What is The Nation Housing Act of 1934?
The process of supporting the livability and vitality of residential and commercial areas through improvements in non-motorist safety, mobility, and comfort.
What is traffic calming?
The name for when cars are forbidden or significantly restricted on roughly 75 miles of streets in Colombia every Sunday and holiday
What is Bogota Ciclovia?
The name of the man who pushed through 500 miles of urban highways due a vision for an automobile-oriented city. (This vision had little sympathy for poorer residents and people of color.)
Who is Robert Moses?
Penn State building that is a LEEP Gold complex, that has an exterior made of recycled copper and durable brick, an intelligent lighting control system, and much more.
What is the Stuckeman Family Building (home of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture)?