ENDS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Grid Plan, Hectare, Impervious Surface
20 Sep 2016
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Planners = control over the aspects of the city: where various part of the city are. City of north vancouver, 100 year plan: even in the same neighborhood, greener the map is, the lighter your footprint is, live on or near lonsdale street = 66% less of a drag" on the planet. City of vancouver: getting denser and denser as the years go, residence per acre . Metro vancouver"s ghg: main percentage comes from cars and light trucks. We"re warmer, so we require less energy to heat. We also use hydropower, which is 0% ghg: 5% global ghg comes from concrete. Cement: really bad for producing greenhouse gases (7-10%) You need some form of energy to heat cement and use cement. When cement hardens, it gives off co2. Emergence of auto oriented sprawl: search for affordable housing. Mortgage deductions: transit ridership collapse, increasingly long commute distances, canadian population density dropped from 6800 to 4000 per sq. mile between 1960 and.
