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: