URBS 300 Final Exam Questions and
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What is Placemaking and who advocates for it? - ✔✔- Placemaking is a
multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public
spaces. Placemaking capitalizes on a local community's assets, inspiration,
and potential, with the intention of creating public spaces that promote
people's health, happiness, and well being.
- SUSAN S. FAINSTEIN
What is a representative democracy? and who speaks to that? - ✔✔- a
type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing
a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.[2] Nearly all modern
Western-style democracies are types of representative democracies;
- SUSAN S. FAINSTEIN
What is a direct democracy? EX: - ✔✔In direct democracy, people decide
on policies without any intermediary. Depending on the particular system in
use, direct democracy might entail passing executive decisions, the use of
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, sortition, making laws, directly electing or dismissing officials, and
conducting trials.
Athens
What is a participatory democracy? - ✔✔is a form of direct democracy and
emphasizes the broad participation of constituents in the direction and
operation of political systems. However, participatory democracy tends to
advocate more involved forms of citizen participation and greater political
representation than traditional representative democracy.
Explain the relationship between Democracy and Knowledge. -
✔✔Knowledge guides action however democracy (and the type of
democracy) guides knowledge in certain ways.
Place vs Space - ✔✔A PLACE can be seen as SPACE that has a meaning.
Explain Fainstein's Planning Theory approaches as well as what they are
reactions to. - ✔✔- Fainstein exames three approaches to planning theory:
the communicative model (Participatory planning), the new urbanism, and
the just city.
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Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+
What is Placemaking and who advocates for it? - ✔✔- Placemaking is a
multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public
spaces. Placemaking capitalizes on a local community's assets, inspiration,
and potential, with the intention of creating public spaces that promote
people's health, happiness, and well being.
- SUSAN S. FAINSTEIN
What is a representative democracy? and who speaks to that? - ✔✔- a
type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing
a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.[2] Nearly all modern
Western-style democracies are types of representative democracies;
- SUSAN S. FAINSTEIN
What is a direct democracy? EX: - ✔✔In direct democracy, people decide
on policies without any intermediary. Depending on the particular system in
use, direct democracy might entail passing executive decisions, the use of
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, sortition, making laws, directly electing or dismissing officials, and
conducting trials.
Athens
What is a participatory democracy? - ✔✔is a form of direct democracy and
emphasizes the broad participation of constituents in the direction and
operation of political systems. However, participatory democracy tends to
advocate more involved forms of citizen participation and greater political
representation than traditional representative democracy.
Explain the relationship between Democracy and Knowledge. -
✔✔Knowledge guides action however democracy (and the type of
democracy) guides knowledge in certain ways.
Place vs Space - ✔✔A PLACE can be seen as SPACE that has a meaning.
Explain Fainstein's Planning Theory approaches as well as what they are
reactions to. - ✔✔- Fainstein exames three approaches to planning theory:
the communicative model (Participatory planning), the new urbanism, and
the just city.
2
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