urbanists
Metropolitan design advocates
Urbanists are people who study, plan, or advocate for cities and urban development.
The term covers city planners, architects, activists, and theorists concerned with how cities function and how they might be improved.
Urbanists often champion walkable neighborhoods, public transit, and mixed-use development: Urbanists have long criticized car-centric planning.
Sectioning areas by use
- land-useHow property gets utilized
- masterplanComprehensive guiding strategy
- densityMass-to-volume ratio
- mixed-useCombining different functions
walkability · transit-oriented · regulation · policy · sustainability · housing · demographics · renewal
Mass-to-volume ratio
- skylineUrban profile against atmosphere
- highriseMultistory urban building
- blockSolid mass, or impede
- neighborhoodResidential area nearby
district · corridor · node · downtown · exurb · infill · brownfield · setback
Wealthy influx displacing locals
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
- segregationForced separation by group
- inequityUnfair distribution or treatment
Designing meaningful public spaces
- livabilityResidential quality of place
- streetscapeUrban corridor's appearance
- transectObservation path for surveys
Movement between places
- cyclingRiding on two wheels
- pedestrianOne traveling afoot
- public-transitShared community transportation systems
- greenwaysRecreational linear open spaces
utilities · sewers · stormwater · resilience · mobility · accessibility · streetcar
zoning
Sectioning areas by use
- land-useHow property gets utilized
- masterplanComprehensive guiding strategy
- densityMass-to-volume ratio
mixed-use · walkability · transit-oriented · regulation · policy · sustainability · housing · demographics · renewal · revitalization
density
Mass-to-volume ratio
neighborhood · district · corridor · node · downtown · exurb · infill · brownfield · setback
gentrification
Wealthy influx displacing locals
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
- segregationForced separation by group
placemaking
Designing meaningful public spaces
- livabilityResidential quality of place
- streetscapeUrban corridor's appearance
- transectObservation path for surveys
transit
Movement between places
- cyclingRiding on two wheels
- pedestrianOne traveling afoot
- public-transitShared community transportation systems
greenways · utilities · sewers · stormwater · resilience · mobility · accessibility · streetcar
- urban subculturesravers, breakdancers, graffiti artists, street artists, b-boys
urbanistsruralists
Country lifestyle proponents
agrarians · suburbanites · homesteaders · pastoralists · decentralists
- new urbanismWalkable mixed-use development philosophy