Urban Planning
Harvard Crimson
City on a Hill
100
This discipline and process is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment.
What is urban planning?
100
Founded in 1636, this institution is the first college in North America.
What is Harvard?
100
Located just outside of Boston, this city was originally founded as the capital of Massachusetts and is home to Harvard University.
What is Cambridge?
200
These laws allow governments to control the development of land and the kinds of uses that land can be made of land and buildings?
What is zoning?
200
A shield, three books, and the word Veritas — are the decorative version of this University seal.
What is the Harvard “arms”?
200
Established in 1634, this popular gathering place is the oldest public park in the USA.
What is Boston Common?
300
This is a request by a land or property owner to deviate from current zoning requirements.
What is a variance?
300
This civil rights activist and Harvard alum rose to prominence with the publication of a study that examines the form and function of Philadelphia's African-American community.
Who is WEB Dubois?
300
This beautiful park has neither a castle on it nor is it an island.
What is Castle Island?
400
This document, often issued by a city, announces a planning project, describes it, and solicits competitive responses from qualified developers.
What is an RFP?
(Similar to the one reviewed for the Frank D. Reeves Center Redevelopment)
400
Beneath this bronze statue, located in Harvard Yard, is inscribed "John Harvard. Founder. 1638".
What is the Statue of Three Lies?
400
This old public housing project was transformed to become a mixed-use neighborhood that has won a lot of accolades for how you might try to transform public housing.
What is Columbia point?
500
Providing a conceptual layout to guide future growth and development of a city is the goal of this dynamic, long-term planning document.
What is a master plan?
Google --> "Imagine Boston 2030"
500
This building with a central studio space known as the Trays, extends through five levels under a stepped, clear-span roof and houses the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
What is Gund Hall?
500
The oldest community theatre in the US, Footlight Club, is located in this Boston neighborhood.
What is Jamaica Plain?
Where the REEX capstone project site is located.
