Title: The Urban Design Quiz
1The Urban Design Quiz Bristol 2009
2Round 1
3- CABE is which of the following
- Council for the Abolition of Badly-designed
Edifices -
- Confederation of Architects Blaming Engineers
- c) Commission for Architecture and the Built
Environment -
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7It takes 100 Australians to create the same urban
activity as 10 Italians Gazzards Law of Urban
Vitality
8Sir Milton Keynes (1900-1967) Industrialist and
politician. A staunch advocate of plans for a new
city to revive Buckinghamshires economy, he was
appointed as chairman-designate when the citys
boundaries were announced in 1966. When Keynes
died in a motor accident the following year, the
city was named after him. He was the younger
brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes.
9A city that sold its soul to Mammon and lost the
receipt Simon Jenkins
10Answers
11- CABE is which of the following
- Council for the Abolition of Badly-designed
Edifices -
- Confederation of Architects Blaming Engineers
- c) Commission for Architecture and the Built
Environment -
12- CABE is which of the following
- Council for the Abolition of Badly-designed
Edifices -
- Confederation of Architects Blaming Engineers
- c) Commission for Architecture and the Built
Environment -
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20Barcelona
21It takes 100 Australians to create the same urban
activity as 10 Italians Gazzards Law of Urban
Vitality
22It takes 100 Australians to create the same urban
activity as 10 Italians Gazzards Law of Urban
Vitality
23Sir Milton Keynes (1900-1967) Industrialist and
politician. A staunch advocate of plans for a new
city to revive Buckinghamshires economy, he was
appointed as chairman-designate when the citys
boundaries were announced in 1966. When Keynes
died in a motor accident the following year, the
city was named after him. He was the younger
brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes.
24Sir Milton Keynes (1900-1967) Industrialist and
politician. A staunch advocate of plans for a new
city to revive Buckinghamshires economy, he was
appointed as chairman-designate when the citys
boundaries were announced in 1966. When Keynes
died in a motor accident the following year, the
city was named after him. He was the younger
brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes.
False
25A city that sold its soul to Mammon and lost the
receipt Simon Jenkins
26A city that sold its soul to Mammon and lost the
receipt Simon Jenkins
Birmingham
27Round 2
28- Sustainability is which of the following
- A meaningless word used to fill in gaps in
thinking about the impact of development on other
places and future generations
29- Sustainability is which of the following
- A meaningless word used to fill in gaps in
thinking about the impact of development on other
places and future generations - b) A meaningless word used to fill in gaps in
thinking about the impact of development on other
places and future generations
30Two UK new towns are named after people. One is
Washington, named after a local village and the
American president whose family came from there.
The second is not Milton Keynes. What is it?