Deck 11: Metropolitan Planning and Urban Issues

Question 1

A city planning concept that suggested a vision of heterotopia combining industrial employment with country living on a human scale is which of the following?

A) Howard's Garden City
B) Le Corbusier's Radiant City
C) Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City
D) Durkheim's Mechanical City

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A modernist city planning concept that proposed creating condensed, vertical living space to create more open space for mobility and light across the city is which of the following?

A) Howard's Garden City
B) Le Corbusier's Radiant City
C) Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City
D) Durkheim's Mechanical City

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A city planning perspective that suggested structures should be organic extensions of natural environments, and organized residential, commercial and industrial spaces, to be connected primarily by automobile transportation is which of the following?

A) Howard's Garden City
B) Le Corbusier's Radiant City
C) Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City
D) Durkheim's Mechanical City

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What was the primary reason why Jacobs advocated for mixed use development?

A) Built environments used for multiple purposes kept cities vibrant and interesting, incorporating primary and secondary uses.
B) Mixed use developments were cheaper to build because uses were not separated and separately constructed.
C) Jacobs wanted to limit mobility of residents to their own neighborhood, and so each neighborhood needed spaces for each kind of use.
D) Jacobs felt that if commercial spaces closed at dinner time, the city would be quieter when families spent time together.

Question 5

Which of the following is an umbrella term used to describe an approach to city planning that draws from Jacobs, Calthorpe, and Fulton and advocates planning for cities based on a mix of residential, commercial, and manufacturing or global economic functions?

A) Spatial orthodoxy
B) Heterotopia
C) Organic planning
D) New urbanism

Question 6

Which of the following terms refers to the outward migration of people, shopping centers, and jobs to undeveloped land away from more populated settlement spaces?

A) Sprawl
B) Congestion
C) Environmental extension
D) Radiant growth

Question 7

Smart growth planning may be described as planning that combines tax incentives, land banking, and better connections between new developments and public transportation.

Question 8

Because every city resident is concerned about environmental quality, sustainable development strategies have been implemented evenly across almost all metropolitan regions.

Question 9

Why does the sociospatial perspective see mobility and fixity as two sides of the same coin?

A) Because social problems like residential segregation involve both fixity and mobility, as members of some groups are able to more easily move than others
B) Because every transportation plan has both positive and negative outcomes
C) Because spatial advantages and disadvantages co-exist simultaneously for different groups in the city
D) Answers A and B
E) Answers A and C

Question 10

Spatial capital measures what?

A) The degree of financial capital invested in particular spaces in the metropolitan region.
B) Locational advantages and disadvantages of mobility and fixity for residents.
C) The average height of buildings in particular city neighborhoods.
D) The density of residential populations in particular urban spaces.

Question 11

In examining spatial capital, which of the following is NOT among the three sociological dimensions of space that the sociospatial approach prioritizes over individual consumer choices?

A) How the state and planners create the conditions for the accumulation of spatial capital.
B) How residents form community groups around shared interests.
C) How different forms of spatial capital develop based on different locations.
D) How social groups convert their spatial capital into economic and political power.

Question 12

What are Jane's Walks and how do they celebrate her influence on urban planning and social life?

Question 13

What were the planning priorities expressed at the UN's Habitat III conference?

Question 14

What is the Greater Toronto Authority (GTA) and how is planning for the Toronto metropolitan region shaped by the GTA?

Question 15

Compare and contrast the ideas of Howard's Garden City, Le Corbusier's Radiant City, and Wright's Broadacre City.

Question 16

What is new urbanism?

Question 17

How does taking the perspective of the metropolitan region impact planning priorities, especially on the issues of sprawl, the environment, and transportation?