GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Naming Rights
27 Jun 2018
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Lecture 17
Urban Planning and Local Planning Issues
What is Urban Planning?
The organization (planning) of land uses, transportation, and social services to improve the built,
economic, and social environments of communities
Essentially it is about…
oSolving problems related to past/current development
oAspiring to make cities better for the future
Where did urban planning come from?
oResponse to the appalling sanitary, social, and economic conditions of rapidly-growing
industrial cities
Think about 'urbanization' and 'industrial revolution'
oInitially: architects and civil engineers
oLater: public health specialists, economist, sociologists, lawyers and geographers
Today, most urban planners are geographers
Who does the planning?
oThe city - ex: City of Hamilton Planning Department
oThe private sector
oThe public
What are they planning exactly? What things do they plan?
oLand uses
oServices
oInfrastructure
oTransportation
oEmployment areas
oHousing
oEnvironment
Some of the challenges of urban planning
oMeeting the needs of competing interests
oMaking the city 'better'
Better for whom?
oPlanning for a better tomorrow without compromising the present (and the past)
What are planners trying to do?
oMeet the needs of competing interests
oMake for a better city
How do they do this planning?
oRegional Plans (provincial)
oMunicipal plans (city)
Transportation master plans
Growth Related Integrated Development Strategy
oNeighbourhood plans
Land uses and transportation policies for a particular area
What is zoning?
oOne of the most important tools of the urban planner; controls the use of land and the
buildings constructed there
oMechanism of implementation and enforcement
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Document Summary
The organization (planning) of land uses, transportation, and social services to improve the built, economic, and social environments of communities. Solving problems related to past/current development: aspiring to make cities better for the future. Where did urban planning come from? o. Response to the appalling sanitary, social, and economic conditions of rapidly-growing industrial cities. Think about "urbanization" and "industrial revolution" o o. Later: public health specialists, economist, sociologists, lawyers and geographers. Who does the planning? o o o. The city - ex: city of hamilton planning department. What things do they plan? o o o o o. Some of the challenges of urban planning: meeting the needs of competing interests, making the city "better" Planning for a better tomorrow without compromising the present (and the past) What are planners trying to do: meet the needs of competing interests, make for a better city. How do they do this planning? o. Growth related integrated development strategy: neighbourhood plans.
