PLAN104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Urban Transit Association, Transportation Planning, Walmart
21 Dec 2016
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What is planning: take information and apply it, siting, sizing, and flows. Property ownership, protecting private property: zoning: the control by authority of the use of land, and of the buildings thereon. Environment, economy, social factors, culture, heritage, etc: want to know the impact of how we plan (planning) on issues such as: interconnected; they work together. Not a one-way system (loop): evaluation of how the practice panned out in the end. Lessons from dr. seuss ~ knowledge of planners. Intuition: your gut feeling of what you feel is true; counters previous beliefs and knowledge. Empirical knowledge: truth and knowledge based off of experience and experiment. Skeptical response: have the desire to proof, and to be sceptical at first; to not believe everything first hand. Proof can come in many forms and cannot be dismissed: different truths based on religion, geographical location, and culture: new information, additional world views (perspectives) Planner(cid:495)s knowledge: decisions are (or perhaps ought to be) taken.
