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| True or False: The neighborhood is a way to describe and evaluate the social, economic, and ethnic diversity of locales within the metropolitan area. |
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| True or False: There is a solid consensus among residents and scholars on how to define "neighborhood." |
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| True or False: In this internet age, neighborhood may play a less significant role. |
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| Some scholars, such as S. Keller, believe that "good" neighbors merely have to conform to agreed-upon conceptions of the role the be desirable. |
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| True or False: A neighborhood is an arena for personal, social, or organizational behaviors and relationships. |
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| What is the term for the small cluster of houses right around one's own house? |
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| What is the term for the area up to where the property values of housing or the mix of housing types and land uses change? |
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| What is the term for the neighborhood in which residents share the same social institutions, such as elementary school, church, police precinct, or political ward. |
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| Institution-oriented Neighborhood |
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| What is the term for the neighborhood that is an entire suburban or district within a big city, such as the north side of Chicago? |
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| True or False: A neighborhood can act as an arena to sustain individuals' everyday needs, as well as a place offering a stable geographic fulcrum. |
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| Classify the following type of setting by public vs. private place: dwelling, balcony, yard. |
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| Classify the following type of setting by public vs. private place: Front porch, front yard of houses, hallway of same floor of apartment building. |
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| Classify the following type of setting by public vs. private place: Lobby and circulation areas of apartment buildings, courtyards of garden apartments - for occupants and visitors, neighborhood clubhouse. |
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| Classify the following type of setting by public vs. private place: Streets and sidewalks near buildings. |
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| True or False: Neighborhoods offer organizational opportunities to create membership groups or associations. |
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| True or False: A child of 4 to 6 has a large neighborhood. |
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| False; A child of 4 to 6 has an extremely small neighborhood. |
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| True or False: Older youth and unmarried young adults have the highest amount of neighborhood consciousness. |
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| False; They have the least amount of neighborhood consciousness. |
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| True or False: In old age, the neighborhood may take on considerable import because of mobility constraints. |
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| Who was the city planner who strongly influenced neighborhood planning in the U.S. in 1929? |
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| In 1929, Clarence Perry wrote an influential New York City plan. What was the title of his plan? |
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| Regional Plan of New York and its Environs |
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| True or False: Clarence Perry hypothesized that the neighborhood unit was an attempt to provide a substitute for the nostalgic attraction of the village or small town and its compact physical design. |
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| What was Clarence Perry's term for "that area which embraces all the public facilities and conditions needed by the average family for its comfort and proper development within the vicinity of its dwellings"? |
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| What are the six design elements of Clarence Perry's neighborhood unit? |
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| Size, Boundaries, Open spaces, Institutional sites, Local shops, and Internal street system |
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| What two principles did the physical design requisites of Clarence Perry's neighborhood unit attempt to reflect? |
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| What is the term for participation in community affairs and cultural events? |
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| True or False: Clarence Perry was an advocate of social heterogeneity. |
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| False; Perry's goal of a "self-contained" neighborhood was his code word for social homogeneity. Exclusion was a goal. |
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| Fill in the blanks: Clarence Perry's neighborhood unit sought to insulate ___________ city residences from the disruptive influence of forced interaction with ____________ social groups. |
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| Affluent ; "Incompatible" |
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| Fill in the blank: Many 1920s studies from the University of Chicago had shown that heterogeneous city neighborhoods were a source of ____________ behaviors. |
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| Fill in the blank: Perry's design was criticized in 1948 as a deliberate instrument of racial and social class ______________, that is, as a(n) _______________ neighborhood. |
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| Segregation ; Exclusionary |
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| Fill in the blank: After _____________, numerous suburban developments applied features of planned neighborhoods. |
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| Fill in the blanks: Sunnyside, Radburn, and Chatham Village were planned neighborhoods designed by _________________ and _____________ during the 1930s. |
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| Henry Wright ; Clarence Stein |
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| What are the three recent stages of suburban development? |
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1. Bedroom Suburban Communities (Before 1960)
2. Independence High Rises (1960-1980s)
3. Town Centers/Edge Cities (1980s-Present) |
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| The rigorous separation of residential and nonresidential uses of neighborhoods constitutes what idea? |
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| Conventional Suburban Development (CSD) |
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| True or False: The majority of U.S. citizens now live in suburban communities built in the last 50 years. |
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| True or False: The design of most new suburban communities does not require an automobile to make trips. |
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| False; Their design requires the use of the automobile for most trips. |
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| In what decade did New Urbanism Neighborhoods begin to be constructed? |
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| What movement combines principles of planning and architecture to create human-scale communities that maximize foot traffic? |
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| What movement evisages small, pedestrian-friendly, close-knit communities countering the Levittowns? |
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| What two town planners drafted 13 points describing the design features of New Urbanism? |
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| Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk |
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| Fill in the blanks: A New Urbanism neighborhood has a discernible _________ - a square or a busy/memorable street corner. A __________ _________ would also be located here. |
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| Fill in the blanks: Most of the dwellings in a New Urbanism Neighborhood are located within a five-minute walk of the ____________, an average of roughly _________ feet. |
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| Fill in the blanks: New Urbanism neighborhoods feature ________ and ________ at the edge to supply the weekly needs of households. |
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| Fill in the blanks: A small __________ building is permitted within the backyard of each house within New Urbanism Communites. It may be used as a __________ ________ or place to ________. |
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| Ancillary ; Rental Unit ; Work |
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| True or False: In a New Urbanism Neighborhood, an elementary school is close enough for most children to walk from home. |
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| True or False: In a New Urbanism Neighborhood, there are small playgrounds near every dwelling - not more than a tenth of a mile away. |
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| True or False: Buildings in the center of New Urbanism neighborhoods are placed far from the street. |
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| False; as a small setback, buildings in the neighborhood center are placed close to the street. |
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| True or False: In New Urbanism Neighborhoods, parking lots and garage doors often face the street. |
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| Fill in the blank: New Urbanism Neighborhoods are organized to be self-___________. A formal __________ debates and decides matters of maintenance, security, and physical change. |
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