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58 Cards in this Set
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Districts
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Area separate from the one next to it
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Landmarks
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A feature of a landscape or town that is easily identifiable from a distance
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Edges
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Outside limit of an area, object or surface
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• Cognitive Map
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- important because they help designers see how people use
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Paths
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A way or track laid down for walking
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• Ekistics
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applies to the science of human settlements. It includes regional, city, community planning and dwelling design. It involves the study of all kinds of human settlements, with a view to geography and ecology — the physical environment — and human psychology and anthropology, and cultural, political, and occasionally aesthetics
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• Anecdotal
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(referring to research) Not necessarily true or reliable based on personal accounts
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• Red Lining
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Considered slums because black people lived there. Realtors would sell houses to black people for extremely high prices because they would be in white neighborhoods, and then they would turn around and convince current white residents to sell them their houses cheap before their houses depreciated since there were now blacks living there
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• Nodes
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Plaza/area where paths lead up to (Grocery stores, schools, outside parks, the hub)
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• Housing
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bank/safety deposit… also as work site/office. Designs are based off different user groups: Different Lifestyles/Age groups, Single/Sharing-partnerships/married, Married with children/ single parents/ Empty nesters. Group Homes/ Shelter situations.
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• Ethnography
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Qualitative culture study, involves depth study usually in year, informants, multiple data methods, not a survey
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• Gibson
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Did a study with cats spinning on a wheel to see how they would remember the area around them afterwards
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• Kevin Lynch
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wrote Image of the City, and identified 5 major features of how people move around things
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• Gaston Bachelard
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Said, as an archetype- deeper sense of the importance and experience (phenomenological) of the house
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• Clarence Perry
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The “father” of the concept of a neighborhood units, based on a centrally located school (K-12) and playground areas with shopping centers
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• Jon Lang
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Wrote Creating Architecture Theory: The Role of the Behavioral Sciences in Environmental Design
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• Gordon Cullen
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English architect and urban designer, key motivator in the townscape movement and wrote the book Townscape/The Concise Townscape
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• Marvin Levine
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An experimental psychologist. Research interest is in problem solving with a focus upon spatial problem solving. Present concern is with maps and other way-finding aids
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Ebanezer Howard
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Garden Cities”
o Self sufficient o Close to nature o Including both work and industry and agriculture |
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jane jacobs
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eyes on the street
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edward hall
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cultural differences
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yi-fu tuan
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topophila
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roger barekr
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behavior setting
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robert sommer
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personal space
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oscar newman
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defensible space
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WH Whyte
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planning codes, bonus spaces
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R Riley
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place atachement
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place attachment
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integrating concept that invloves patterns of attachment, places that vary in scale, different actors, different social relations
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proxemics
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the study of the nature, degree, and affect of the spatial separation individuals naturally maintain and how this separation relates to environmental and cultural factos
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broken windows
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refers to issues of maintenance and the importance of well maintained spaces communicating that a space is cared for by some group of groups who are probably watching over the space
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front stage
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areas where users are considered to be on view of others
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back stage
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areas where users feel their behavior is not or is less under visual scrutiny of others
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density
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people per square foot
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behavioral determinism
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saying that the environment doesnt really matter peoples behavior is more dependent on individual and social or cultural influences so what designers create is not a big issue
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personalization
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term used to indicate environments that users have modifies to reflect more closely their needs and embellished with items of a personally important nature
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haptic
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used to describe these qualities related to movement or muscle memory, right rhythm of stairs
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environment determinism
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saying that the environment controls peoples behavior so designers must be careful and responsible when they design environments
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territoriality
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spreading out your stuff to cover a large portion of a big shared table
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interactionism
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how environments work or function is not just based on physical aspects or qualities of what we design and build it is also very dependent on cultural and group norms that impact perception of use and how space is managed
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affordance
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term used in the field of environment and behavior are the physical properties or configurations of an object or setting/space that allow it to be used in a particular way, one can say these are set ranges of possibilities
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behavior setting
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theorized entities that help explain the relationship between individual and the environment, particularly the social envirment
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socio-petal
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facing inward seating
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socio-fugal
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facing outward seating
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WH Whyte
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seating, trees, sunlight, water, food
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defensible space
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Territoriality, natural surveillance, safe adjoining areas, proximity to a police substation
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Clarence Perry
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father of the concept of a neighborhood, or a planned neighborhood unit, Central school kindergarten to 12th grade, Playground, Shopping center
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Clare Coopper Marcus
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House as a symbol of the self
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Clarence Stein
Henry Wright |
Radburn NJ, proposed superblock design, A town of the motor age, Pedestrian did not gross roads at grade, School serviced beyond Radburn
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Andres Duany
Elizabeth Platner Zybeck |
Seaside, Florida is New Urbanism, one of the first
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Designing Community
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New Urbanism, porches, walkable, mixed use
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Gaston Bachelard
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Archetypal and experiential or phenomenological aspects of the house
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Qualities/design using POE
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Trade off, brick, tinted mortar, angled walls, double-pane glass, 1st level laundry for square footage
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Negative Critique
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POE of the Phipps Plaza was conducted shortly after the building became occupied
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Civil rights issues in design
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Universal or Inclusive design, Lynn and Arvid call Universal Design
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Christian Nordberg Schultz
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Legibility and imagiable understanding of urban places
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Unobtrusive Research Methods
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Behavioral Mapping and Accretion and Erosion, conducted without impacting users
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Radburn, NJ
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Inward facing, separate modes of traffic, mix housing, types, community facilities, community within community
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Scholars/designers of New Urbanism
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Andre Duany
Elizabeth Plater-Zybeck Peter Calthorpe Elizabeth Moule Stefanos Polyzeides |
