Urbs final - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Final exam images URBS Exam 2024|Questions with Correct Answers |Graded A+ Equitable Building 1915 Greenbelt cities decentralized, communal living and social cohesion during depression era (similar to radburn) (greenbelt maryland picture from 1938). Hoped to ease housing shortage and ideal community. Crystal House, Century of Progress House, 1933 Chicago Fair House of Tomorrow, Century of Progress House, 1933 Chicago Fair Futurama (1933 NY World's Fair) prototype of american highwa...

Globalization how trade and technology have made the world a more connected and interdependent place. economic, cultural, political, social World cities gathering place of global capital and the place to organize and control the production system; economic, cultural, politica

Conventional wisdom about why people commit crime -Criminality is form or symptom of emotional disturbance on part of individual - Impulsive, opportunistic, disturbed, emotional maladjustment, sick -deviant: modes of action that do not conform to the norms or values held by most members of a group society -norms: clearly defined and established principles or rules people are expected to observe/follow, vary by culture/subculture

The World Bank - Ans - designed to provide loans for infrastructure projects (roads and buildings) - created after WW2 - 1970: began lending money to countries in the global south that had a lack of funds - people are considered poor if the make less than $1 US per day Polarization - Ans the distribution of income being pulled apart to high and low payed

Overall goal of CIP - Answer to reconcile competing public projects into a 'middle-range' plan of facilities steps of CIP - Answer Analysis of financial resources, requests for proposed projects, choices among functional groups, determining the sequence of projects, setting the priority of projects Community Strategic Planning - Answer Identifies the strategic actions that need to be taken in order to get there - ex. Montreal Development Plan

How did GIS start? on paper by john snow on the cholera epidemic in London, 1854 GIS= spatial+attribute Brief history in 3 points 1. pioneered and developed () 2. GIS software commercialization () 3. User Adoption ()

About __________ million American households live in developments that are surrounded by fences or walls. - Ans 10 __________ are new, sprawling, middle-class, automobile-dependent centers typically located at the fringe of older urban areas, at the intersections of major highways, where little except villages or farmland existed three decades earlier. - Ans edge cities The invasion-succession movement refers to - Ans the movement of social groups to different neighborhoods of the city

What is a historic city? - Answer There are two Florences: the guides one (tourists) and the daily florence (the inhabitants one), the historical centre captures the interest of internationals and people living in the urban areas to define it as a historic city Why is it bad to only highlight the city center? - Answer The duomo, Ponte Vecchio, and David is not all florence is, romanticizing florence as only existing in the city center is creating a false image of the city itself. Florence i...