EUS 202 Lecture Notes - Roadwater, Social Capital, Resource Consumption

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Environment and Urban Sustainability
• Course: EUS 202
• Professor: Christopher Greene

Document Summary

Urban sprawl: dispersed populations away from city centers pushing into rural areas. Blais & roseland: subsidization of car-centric transportation (includes infrastructure, market failures: value of open space/green space; social cost of congestion, federal mortgage policies, zoning policies dictating separation of land use, minimum parking requirements for development. Municipal development practices: single-detached homes=$ less efficient delivery of services & extensive infrastructure to support automobiles. Inner city blight: compact core of city=>low-density suburban. Dynamics: reduced accessibility: ^private/less public: negative effect on social capital. The cost of sprawl low density development=^local tax base. Real estate research corporation for us: the costs of sprawl (1974) examined community types low density: ^480$, environmental, natural resource consumption, personal: combo-mix, high density planned. Carruthers & ulfarrson (2003: per capita$ less with ^ density (-correlation, ^ with spatial extent of urban area(+correlation) National policy framework required & land use decisions. Characteristics of active neighborhoods: less active modes of transportation=^obesity/hypertension/weight.