The Urban Design Quiz

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The Urban Design Quiz Bristol 2009
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Round 1
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• 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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It takes 100 Australians to create the same urban
activity as 10 Italians Gazzards Law of Urban
Vitality
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Sir 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.
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A city that sold its soul to Mammon and lost the
receipt Simon Jenkins
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Answers
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• 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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• 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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Barcelona
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It takes 100 Australians to create the same urban
activity as 10 Italians Gazzards Law of Urban
Vitality
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It takes 100 Australians to create the same urban
activity as 10 Italians Gazzards Law of Urban
Vitality
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Sir 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.
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Sir 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
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A city that sold its soul to Mammon and lost the
receipt Simon Jenkins
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A city that sold its soul to Mammon and lost the
receipt Simon Jenkins
Birmingham
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Round 2
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• 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

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• 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

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Two 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?