LARC 2820 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hectare, Floor Area Ratio, Ian Mcharg

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Landscape Architecture
• Course: LARC 2820
• Professor: Paul Kraehling

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Larc*2(cid:1012)20 -- ch. (cid:1011) -- focus o(cid:374) natural a(cid:374)d built e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts. Diverse range of concerns, interests, and focus of planning practice: policy planning, impact analysis, growth management, the natural environment, social planning, economic development, etc. Focus has always been on the built and natural environments of the towns: concern is with the forces the influence the physical shape of communities. Land use planning: type of planning for natural and built environments that provides the focus to community planning. Best long-term community planning starts with considering the natural environment in which human settlement is found: ecological planning especially important, settlements scattered across an enormous continent and a diverse range of natural environments. Planners analyze this range of environment in several ways: most basic is patrick geddes(cid:859) (cid:396)egio(cid:374)al (cid:448)ie(cid:449) of the valley section. Considering human settlements from a regional perspective. Using cross-sections through valleys: different locations in valley section suited to different types of human activity.