PLAN103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Transit-Oriented Development, Smart Growth, Walkability
23 Mar 2016
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About revenue and expenditure decisions of municipal government. What services, infrastructure do we spend the money on delivering. How to pay for and deliver the projects. What are the implications to who pays and benefits from these decisions. Planning administration: patterns of behaviour common to cooperation in organizations. How we carry out planning: changes to systems and processes to make administration better. Need to understand the structure of what is and is not possible under system. Need to understand financing infrastructure, developing in phases due to lack of up- front funds: connects to design in that it has to work for people. Cities are trying to beautify, add urban amenities increasingly important for economic development. Understand effects of context of fiscal conservatism and downloading of services. Urban form and function can be influenced by financial tools: how do we charge people for services, how it influences people"s decisions. Choose any infrastructure project in a canadian municipality.
