Glossary

 Similar to a tac munt (see: tactical spew), it involves a small-scale, temporary intervention for the greater good.

Super important buildings that stand at the end of a road, so you can’t escape the view.

 First place is the home, second place is the workplace, and third place is all the other community-creating environments that are good for the soul.

It is the average of the speed measurements at one point in space over a period of time.

The configuration of a (land) surface including its relief and the position of its natural and man made features

The green areas which are integrated in a residential development with a view to provide safe and supervised play area for 4 year age group.

 It is a function of Primary value and total economic value.

It is the actual number of vehicles observed or predicted to be passing a point during a given time interval.

Transit Oriented Development : Transit Oriented Development is a compact & integrated development, which should be incorporated in Compact Cities. It is defined as, “any development, macro or micro that is focused around a transit node, and facilitates and complete ease of access to the transit facility, thereby inducing people to prefer to walk and use public transportation over personal modes of transport.

Woody plant with a spreading crown, whose single trunk exceeds diameter of 15cm and attains a height of more than 4m.

A one -way movement between a point of origin and a point of destination.

A pucca structure is one whose walls and roofs are at least made of pucca materials such as cement , concrete, oven burnt bricks, stone and stone blocks, junk board, titles, timber, galvanized or corrugated iron sheets, asbestos, cement sheets etc.