ARCH 551 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Transit City, Business Cycle

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ARCH 551: Topic 5
Movement in the Metropolitan Landscape: Transportation, Residential Mobility, and Multiple Residency
Lecture cancelled, summary of slides given on: 01/29/18
Types of mobility:
Everyday mobility: individual moving around an urban landscape, mostly daily activities (i.e.-
commute to McGill)
Residential mobility: moving entire households and possessions within a given metropolitan
region  reorganizing routines (i.e.- have to change commute), example: moving from
Westmount to the Plateau
Migration: migrating away from a given metropolitan region, often within the same country
(common in Canada and the U.S.)
Multiple residency: residing in more than one dwelling, (i.e.- having an everyday home and a
mountain house),
oRecent phenomena: more and more often the designated second home is becoming
closer to the primary home, thus resulting in the tenants moving back in forth between
homes more often
Occasional travel: i.e.- vacation
Thinking about urban form and transportation:
oPre-industrial walking city (pre-1850’s)
Only a gradual densification of population permitted in this urban form
oTransit city (1850-1950’s)
Streetcar suburbs, mixed use of streets
oAutomobile city (post 1950’s)
Became dominant urban form because of poor public transit conditions
Transportation, urban form, and energy use
oCanada: energy use is high because of the weather conditions; especially in personal
transportation (automobiles)
Problem of premature subdivision:
oSpeculation of planned public transit  overenthusiastic waves of urban land speculation
and private investors subdividing space  unable to sell off as much land as speculated
Correlates with business cycles
Leads to eccentric patterns of housing in neighborhoods
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Movement in the metropolitan landscape: transportation, residential mobility, and multiple residency. Lecture cancelled, summary of slides given on: 01/29/18. Everyday mobility: individual moving around an urban landscape, mostly daily activities (i. e. - commute to mcgill) Residential mobility: moving entire households and possessions within a given metropolitan region reorganizing routines (i. e. - have to change commute), example: moving from. Migration: migrating away from a given metropolitan region, often within the same country (common in canada and the u. s. ) Thinking about urban form and transportation: pre-industrial walking city (pre-1850"s) Only a gradual densification of population permitted in this urban form: transit city (1850-1950"s) Streetcar suburbs, mixed use of streets: automobile city (post 1950"s) Became dominant urban form because of poor public transit conditions. Transportation, urban form, and energy use: canada: energy use is high because of the weather conditions; especially in personal transportation (automobiles)

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