Irrev-jargon

The online project to demystify jargon in planning, urban design, architecture and engineering for a laugh.

I seek irreverent definitions jargon for the above professions. The irreverence that gets at the truth that hurts so much, it makes you laugh. Limit is 10-20 words. Choose from a working list see: Glossary to add a piece, or below to puruse and comment. Suggest Entry for the Glossary (Here)

Example: Stakeholders (n), 1. label, defines persons who are affected materially by a physical change but also most likely to be without the equity sufficient to alter or manage the process affecting them.  See: Loosers

Suggest additional jargon, blog tags and categories: (Here)

Please define any of the following irreverently yet truthfully (Here)

• Accessibility: You need it if you can’t get there from here.
• Anthropological vs. Sociological: Your body vs. you mind in space.
• Architectural vs. Artistic:
• Area (geography)
• Bibliographic:
• Cause vs. Effect:
• Centrality (urban): The really big buildings are there.
• Citizens: people born and from someplace legal
• City vs. Town:
• Climate Change:
• Climate Proof: (Netherlands)
• Climate Resilience (NYC)
• Coherent vs Useful:
• Complex vs Complicated:
• Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science
  • (is if fair to debunk Bucky?)
• Consensus Building vs Participation:
• Design (urban interventions):
• Design (policy making):
• Districts:
• Economics:
• Empirical Research:
• Evolution:
• Form/shape vs Structure (urban):
• Goal:
• Growth:
• Infrastructure:
• Integration vs Interaction (processes):
• Interview (qualitative vs quantitative?):
• Land-use:
• Loosers:
• Macro-sociological vs Micro-sociological:
• Management (within professions):
• Mathematical vs Rational(e):
• Metabolism (urban):
• Method: A mindlessly repeatable process
• Methodology: A repatable process with puishment capabilities
• Metropolitan:
• Metropolitan region:
• Mobility (urban):
• Model (projecting):
• Model (socio-economic analysis):
• Mono-centric (provide examples):
• Multi-centric (provide examples):
• Paradigm:
• Planner (urban):
• Plan/Planning (spatial):
• Policy vs Politics:
• Policy making:
• Poly-centric (provide examples):
• Predict vs other forecasts (like weather forecast)
• Pro-active vs Re-active:
• Process (planning)( please provide detailed examples):
• Programs (within urban planning):
• Projecting:
• Qualitative (provide an example):
• Quantitative (provide an example):
• Questionnaires (types):
• Regeneration (urban):
• Rehabilitation (urban):
• Resilience:
• Revitalization (urban):
• Sample (statistic):
• Science/scientific/scientist:
• Scouting:
• Space vs Time:
• Spatial:
• Stakeholders: People affected by physical change and without equity
• Stockholders: People that hold equity with accetance of risk
• Strategy: Process used to take advantage while others remain unaware
• Sustainable vs. Affordable:
• System:
• Technique/technical/technician:
• Territory:
• Tools:
• Transit:
• Type:
• Typology:
• Zoning: