Module 3 — Principles of Sustainable Urban Design
Lesson 12 of 14QUIZ: Module 3

Test your understanding of sustainable urban design theories and theorists by answering the following five (5) multiple-choice questions.

This is the third quiz in this course. All quizzes in the modules of this course are structured in the same way. You will have a set of five (5) multiple-choice questions, where you choose the correct answer for each question from among four possible answers.

Question

01/05

Which of the following options below is not part of Kevin Lynch’s performance dimensions?

Vitality and Fit

Control and Access

Scale and Size

Efficiency and Justice

Question

02/05

What is referred to by Jane Jacob’s term "eyes on the street"?

Continuous use of the streets to create a safety for both strangers and residents, clearly distinguishing what is public vs. private space.

Technology mounted on buildings of varying ages and sizes to monitor activity on the street, and to create a neighbourhood watch to alert enforcement authorities.

People living in high-rise buildings that exist in dense urban settings are required to watch their streets as part of their volunteering in the community.

Maintaining a history of the city, by providing art and culture icons on the streets to enable people to relive its history through the eyes of others.

Question

03/05

John Todd and Nancy Todd’s urban principles were based on ecological design. Their book presented which two main urban design ideas?

Economic cities and efficient machines.

Environmental buildings and sustainable cities.

Eco-cities and living machines.

Socio-economic cities and green machines.

Question

04/05

Which of the following statements in not true?

Netzstadt uses morphological and physiological tools in the long process of city redesign.

Netzstadt is taught to non-engineers so that they can evaluate ancient cities of the past.

Netzstadt is both a model and a method.

Netzstadt emerged as a merge between the works of its authors specializing in architecture and the natural sciences.

Question

05/05

Why does Vanessa Watson consider some new city plans in Africa to be unattainable fantasies?

International property developers are building replicas of these cities around the world.

Financial resources required for the new city plans must come from fossil-fuel based sources of revenue.

Urban planning in Africa is modernizing at an unprecedented pace, which outweighs any negative impacts of new city plans.

New city plans promise to modernize African cities but are not grounded in the realities of these cities and their residents.

Module 3 — Principles of Sustainable Urban DesignLesson 12 of 14QUIZ: Module 3

Module 3 — Principles of Sustainable Urban Design
Lesson 12 of 14QUIZ: Module 3