American landscape Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1909 in Washington, D.C. - Answer When and where was the first national planning conference, National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief, held? 1909 in Harvard's Landscape Architecture Department - Answer When and in what school was the first city planning course taught? Walter Moody in 1912 - Answer Who published 'Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago' ? Chicago Board of Education adopted Wacker's Manual of Plan of Chicago as an 8th grade textbook. - Answer ...

Define Landscape - Answer-A tract of land with its distinguishing characteristics and features, especially considered as a product of shaping processes and agents that are usually natural What is Landscape Architecture? - Answer-the design profession concerned with the design, planning, management and stewardship of the land 5 parts of the theory of landscape architecture - Answer-1. natural process 2. human factors 3. technology 4. methodology 5. values What is Natural Process? - Answe...

landscape definition - Answer-a tract of land with distinguishing characteristics and features, especially considered as a product of shaping processes and agents that are usually natural landscape architecture - Answer-One of 3 broadly based professions dealing with the arrangement of animate and inanimate objects on the land and ties people have to those objects landscape architecture as a science - Answer-deals with the technical manipulation of objects and people in outdoor places land...

Popular Culture - Answer -The practices, attitudes, and preferences that many people in a particular group have in common. -heterogenus -changes frequently -found anywhere on cultural landscape -large societies Homogenization Thesis - Answer -globalization makes culture more alike EX: fast food restaurant, hotels, etc. Placelessness - Answer Part of Homogenization thesis -Edward Ralph (1970s) Def: Loss of unique character of places and instead are culturally standard. Geog...

When and where was the first national planning conference, National Conference on City Planning and Congestion Relief, held? correct answer: 1909 in Washington, D.C. When and in what school was the first city planning course taught? correct answer: 1909 in Harvard's Landscape Architecture Department Who published 'Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago' ? correct answer: Walter Moody in 1912 What was the first known formal instruction in city planning below college level? correct...

LARC 160 Exam 1 What is a floodplain? - An area of low-lying ground adjacent to a river, formed mainly of river sediments and subject to flooding. How can floods assist an area? - Floods bring nutrients and seeds to an area. Good for agricultural use. Floods define a floodplain boundary. Some flood plains are required. What is the ASLA? - The American Society of Landscape Architects What are the four critical issues as defined by ASLA? - Water Resilience Human Health Economic R...

Using the readings, identify ecosystem services provided by each of these local plant species. correct answer: American Sycamore- use in furniture, flooring, butchers' blocks, particle board, boxes, crates, and baskets. People plant these trees along streams to stop soil erosion, and to provide shade. They are also good for landscaping in cities, because they are resistant to pollution. 1. PawPaw Tree- used for food, natives American used fiber from pawpaw bark to weave nets 2. Spicebush- an...

Adaptive plants - Non-indigenous plants that easily adapt to the climate and thus require little or no supplemental irrigation once established. Adjusted water budget -an amount of water used to maintain a landscape that is based on area and evapotranspiration rate. American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - an association involved in developing standards for a wide range of products including plumbing fixtures. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - a professional organizat...

First Planning Conference - Answer 1909 Held at the National Conference on City Planning & Congestion Relief in DC First City Planning Course - Answer 1909 Taught in Harvard's Landscape Architecture Dept. First Formal Known Instruction on City Planning - Answer 1912 Walter Moody - 'Wackers Manual of the Plan of Chicago' First Major Textbook in City Planning - Answer 1914 'Carrying out the City Plan' - Flavel Shurtleff ACPI (American City Planning Institute ) 1st - Answer...

The present continents once formed a single landmass known as what? correct answers Pangea The measurement of water depth in oceans, seas, and lakes is known as what? correct answers Bathymetry The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of what kind of plate boundary? correct answers Divergent The Cascadia Subduction Zone is located off of which three states (select all three). correct answers Oregon, California, Washington The City of San Francisco is located on which tectonic plate? corr...