Corbusier Chronicles
Le Corbusier was a pioneer of this architectural movement that emphasized clean lines, geometric shapes, and a rejection of excessive ornamentation
Modernism
Named after a geometric shape, this term describes trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Triangular Trade
Post-WWII urban planners turned toward social sciences and established what we now call this type of planning.
Rational Planning
The author of “Seeing Like a State.”
James C. Scott
These two things happened during the most important period in the planning profession.
Industrial Revolution and Urbanization
Le Corbusier's vision for urban planning is best encapsulated in his concept of "Ville Radieuse”
Radiant City
A phrase coined to describe the belief that the United States was destined to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
Manifest Destiny
A SWOT analysis includes an assessment of these four factors.
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
The movement of over 7 million African Americans fleeing the South to relocate to northern cities.
The Great Migration
These are the four tasks of planning Beauregard focuses on.
knowing, engaging, prescribing and executing
“city of the future”
Bijlmermeer
New Deal three R's
relief, recovery, reform
A term that prioritizes the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Utilitarianism
Another name for the Homeowner’s Loan Corporation’s residential security maps.
Redlining maps
The four principles Le Corbusier urges planners to follow.
de-congest the centers of cities, augment their density, increase transportation methods, increase parks and open spaces
Le Corbusier famously designed this city in India
Chandigarh
by 1860, more millionaires were living in the Lower Mississippi Valley than anywhere else in the U.S. They were all _________.
enslavers
According to James C. Scott, this type of mindset seeks to impose a simplified, rational order on society through large-scale, centralized planning.
high-modernism
A wide array of practical skills and acquired intelligence in responding to a constantly changing natural and human environment.
Metis
The generic term for those intellectual and affective activities in which individuals engage to explore their experiences to lead to a new understanding and appreciation.
Reflective practice
refers to Le Corbusier’s urban planning concept that emphasizes the separation of different types of traffic into three distinct roadway networks
triple system
This era of US history included major social reforms, economic regulation, consumer protections, and women’s suffrage.
The Progressive Era
The first and last steps of the classic rational planning process.
First: establish goals and objectives
Last: evaluate the plan
This was a radical and coercive agricultural policy that aimed to transform individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled collective farms in the Soviet Union.
Collectivization
This legislation addressed the issue of slums and promoted the development of public housing in the United States.
Housing Act of 1937 or The Wagner-Steagall Act