GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Naming Rights, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Canadian Pacific Railway
18 Dec 2017
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Recall: cities have a number of broad land uses. These land uses are allocated" to certain areas via. Urban planning complicates the allocation of land uses. Urban planning: the organization (planning) of land uses, transportation, and social services to improve the built, economic, and social environments of communities. Resolving issues that are related to poor planning in the past. Aspiring to make cities better for the future. Response to appalling sanitary, social, and economic conditions of rapidly- growing industrial cities. Later: public health specialists, economists, sociologists, geographers. Today, most urban planners are geographers and urban planning is one of the main career paths of geography graduates. People who are developing land or proposing new developments have urban planners. Planning previously happened with the municipality made the decision, or urban planner said this is how it would be done, but now public is allowed to say nah i don"t like that.
