URP-3000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Urban Open Space, Market Rate, City Beautiful Movement
20 Feb 2017
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Natural world: geographic, climatic, construction, topography, resources. Types of governing structures: federal, state, county, city, town, incorporated areas. Pre revolutionary: ran by municipalities and towns had strong control over land use. Square, surrounded by land, undeveloped, vast, main and side streets. Symmetric, primary vs. secondary streets, open space. Post revolutionary: states have the majority power; private property rights enshrined in constitution; commercial elite influenced planning. Ran out of room so people built over topography and green space. Growing pressure: colonial city plans were ignored. Road houses, spaces between buildings became smaller. Wall to wall block long rows, narrowed and developed broadways, row housing. Sanitation, public health, open space, housing quality, mobility, ugliness, overcrowding, economic/employment, social justice. Market rate expensive, inadequate housing, push for minimum standards like building codes, permits for construction, penalties. Housing reform, sanitation, urban open space, civic improvements. Expensive market, no regulations, inadequate housing, dangerous problems arose.
