LARC 2820 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Traffic Congestion, Quality Of Life, Risk Assessment

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

Document Summary

Every province and territory has its own form of legislaion that both sancions the pracice of planning and speciies the format of plans for that region"s communiies: normal and necessary public funcion. Set of planning procedures and legalisic steps zoning, subdivision control, height limits are not, in itself, community planning: means of accomplishing it, but not the ends. Real need for planning arises when people in community, its ciizens, realize a desire to improve their community"s natural and built and environment. Community planning is about ciizens aspiring to a preferred future for their natural and built environment. The need to solve present (and avoid future) Airports, new expressways, shopping centres, etc: 1960s major concerns over physical deterioraion in communiies. Urban renewal a major planning strategy: 1950s problem of adequate levels of housing and uiliies (hospitals, schools, etc. ) arose due to rapid increase in populaion and the introducion of the automobile.