Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Golden Horseshoe, Stormwater, Coastal Erosion
11 Oct 2016
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Sprawl: is the spreading of cities and its suburbs over more and more rural land at the periphery of an urban area. More roads = higher volume of traffic. Zoning separates neighborhoods from businesses, restaurants, and shops. Parking lots push building back and farther away from one another. At the current rate, an additional 260,000 acres of rural land will be urbanized by 2031: this area is double the size of toronto, 92% of this land is ontario farmland. Golden horseshoe is growing population by 115,000 people/year. In 15 years, it will be the 3rd largest urban region (after new york and los angeles) Costs of urban sprawl: low density = high cost: Illness from pollution: time loss, traffic accidents, noise, economic cost of climate change, household cost of sprawl: Savings: ural a(cid:374)d farther fro(cid:373) the (cid:272)ity(cid:859)s (cid:272)e(cid:374)tre (cid:272)osts less. Increased property tax because of infrastructure costs: payi(cid:374)g for a (cid:448)ehi(cid:272)le a(cid:374)d it(cid:859)s (cid:272)osts, time spent driving, consuming precious land:
