This document summarizes a game where participants are asked to name famous urbanists and the books they authored based on clues provided. It discusses 5 urbanists - Sir Patrick Geddes, Daniel Burnham, Le Corbusier, Homer Hoyt, and Frank Lloyd Wright. It also discusses 5 books - The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch, Suburban Nation by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Ebenezer Howard, and The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. Participants were asked to provide the names and images of the urbanists and books based on clues.
2. RULES
1 I will pick a person randomly from the
attendance sheet
2 Lucky person gives me the name of the
urbanist
3 Call a friend in the room if you don’t know
the answer
4 No consultations with Google!
3. NAME THAT URBANIST
1
He
used
the
term
“conurbation”
and
gave
emphasis
to
how
people
and
cities
have
a
relationship.
He
was
fond
of
using
the
survey
method
and
was
a
forerunner
of
the
rational
type
of
planning.
He
was
also
called
the
Father
of
Regional
Planning.
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4. NAME THAT URBANIST
Sir
Patrick
Geddes
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7. NAME THAT URBANIST
3
This
architect
was
very
fond
of
cubist
aesthetics
and
conceptualized
sky-‐high
buildings
and
block
apartments
that
would
house
3
million
people.
He
provided
a
paradoxical
solution
to
congestion,
saying
that
city
centers
should
be
decongested
by
increasing
the
center
density.
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9. NAME THAT URBANIST
4
This
land
economist
studied
142
cities
and
came
up
with
a
sectoral
model
that
showed
radiating
wedges.
His
model
shows
that
the
central
business
district
has
commercial
functions
and
high
land
values,
while
surrounding
areas
take
up
the
industrial
and
transport
functions.
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10. NAME THAT URBANIST
Homer
Hoyt
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14. RULES
1 Same rules
2 Give me the book title
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15. BOOKWORM TREATS
1
In
this
book
you
will
Rind
the
concepts
of
legibility
and
imageability,
and
a
study
of
the
cities
Los
Angeles,
New
Jersey,
and
Boston.
It
also
tells
us
all
about
mental
mapping
and
the
5
elements:
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17. BOOKWORM TREATS
2
This
book
tackles
the
issue
of
sprawling
and
sustainability.
It
heavily
discusses
topography,
landscapes
and
responsible
design.
It
also
greatly
inRluenced
the
use
of
Geographic
Information
Systems.
19. BOOKWORM TREATS
3
This
book
compiles
case
after
case
of
environmental
sciences,
and
looks
speciRically
at
how
pollutants
spread
from
a
bottle
of
insecticide
all
the
way
to
a
water
body,
the
Rlying
robins,
or
a
mother’s
breastmilk.
This
book
launched
an
environmental
movement
around
the
world.
(It
will
also
make
you
stop
eating
oranges
and
will
make
you
refrain
from
using
Baygon.)
21. BOOKWORM TREATS
4
The
concept
of
three
magnets
was
the
main
idea
of
this
book.
It
contained
the
ideals
of
a
slum-‐free
environment
with
high
opportunities
for
employment
and
social
development.
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23. BOOKWORM TREATS
5
This
powerful
book
changed
the
course
of
traditional
physical
planning
into
human-‐centric
planning.
The
sociologist
author
openly
challenged
how
everything
in
a
city
(highways
and
skyways)
was
built
for
the
car
when
there
is
too
much
evidence
that
people
are
the
heartbeat
of
the
city.
She
also
championed
mixed
uses
and
diversity
in
growth.
The
famous
notion
of
“ballet
on
the
streets”
is
in
this
book.
26. RULES
1 Same rules
2 I will give a definition, and you tell me
which concept I am referring to. It may be
a theory, principle, idea, type of science, or
ideology.
27. CONCEPT NOTES
1
This
economic
and
geographic
theory
says
that
the
higher
the
order
and
the
larger
the
range
of
goods
and
services,
the
longer
the
distance
people
are
willing
to
travel
for
them.
This
theory
is
based
on
the
market
as
a
center,
and
uses
the
concepts
of
threshold
and
range.
29. CONCEPT NOTES
Central
Place
Theory
in
the
Philippines:
Malls
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30. CONCEPT NOTES
2
“If
anyone
intentionally
pollutes
the
water
of
another,
whether
the
water
of
a
spring,
or
collected
in
reservoirs…;
if
the
accused
be
found
guilty
of
injuring
the
water
by
deleterious
substances,
let
him
not
only
pay
for
the
damages,
but
purify
the
stream
or
cistern
which
contains
the
water.”
31. CONCEPT NOTES
Polluter
Pays
Principle
by
Plato
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32. CONCEPT NOTES
“It shall be the responsibility of the polluter to contain,
remove, and clean-up water pollution incidents at his
own expense. In case of his failure to do so, the
government agencies concerned shall undertake
containment, removal, and clean-up operations and
expenses incurred in said operations shall be against
the persons and/or entities responsible for such
pollution.”
Philippine
Environmental
Code
(Presidential
Decree
1152),
Section
20
discusses
clean-‐up
operations
with
regard
to
water
pollution:
APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLE
33. CONCEPT NOTES
3
It
is
a
green
island
surrounded
by
houses,
open
spaces
and
pathways,
and
enclosed
by
roads.
This
component
of
a
city
had
the
same
inspiration
as
garden
cities
and
greenbelts
and
was
conceptualized
in
the
New
Towns
Movement.
Starts
with
the
letter
S.
10
letters.
34. CONCEPT NOTES
Superblock
by
Henry
Wright
and
Clarence
Stein.
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35. CONCEPT NOTES
4
It
is
the
science
of
human
settlements.
It
has
Rive
elements:
nature,
anthropos,
society,
shells,
and
networks.
It
also
provides
the
units
from
anthropos
(1
person)
to
ecumenopolis
(or
50
billion
people).
This
is
a
multi-‐disciplinary
science.
The
Greek
Konstantinos
Doxiadis
may
help
ring
a
bell.
37. CONCEPT NOTES
Unit Population Scale
Anthropos 1
Room 2
House 5
House group or hamlet 40
Small neighborhood or village 250
Neighborhood 1,500
Small polis or town 10,000
Polis or city 75,000
Small metropolis 500,000
Metropolis 4 million
Small megalopolis 25 million
Megalopolis 150 million
Small eperopolis 750 million
Eperopolis 7,500 million or 7.5 billion
Ecumenopolis 50,000 million or 50 billion
38. CONCEPT NOTES
5
“…It
is
necessary
for
successive
generations
to
leave
behind
sufRicient
resources
so
that
future
generations
are
not
constrained
in
their
preferences.”
42. STEREOTYPES
1
• A
dominant
core
surrounded
by
secondary
centers
distributed
along
main
radials
• Very
strong
visual
image
• Flexible
but
has
a
costly
circumferential
network
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44. STEREOTYPES
2
• Developments
are
spread
evenly
over
a
wide,
continuous
tract;
circulation
is
carried
out
by
individual
vehicles
• Similar
to
the
native
settlements
prior
to
the
Spanish
colonization
• Very
highly
accessible
and
has
maximum
Rlexibility
but
no
vivid
image
of
the
city
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46. STEREOTYPES
3
• Circulation
is
through
a
series
of
donuts
• No
single
dominant
center
but
has
several
specialized
centers
• Strong
visual
image
but
rigid
and
inRlexible
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47. STEREOTYPES
The
Ring
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48. STEREOTYPES
4
• Development
is
packed
into
one
continuous
body
and
has
no
single-‐detached,
single-‐family
housing.
Only
high-‐rise
apartments
are
present.
• With
high
accessibility
but
high
density
causes
discomfort
• Even
more
rigid
and
any
change
is
extremely
expensive
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50. STEREOTYPES
5
• Clustered
into
small
units.
Each
cluster
is
equal
to
the
next
in
importance
• Circulation
is
mainly
by
private
vehicles
• Local
centers
with
monotonous
similarity
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