GGR361H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Planning Permission, Bioregionalism, Waste Management
Document Summary
History of regional planning in key canadian metropolitan area. Current regional emphases node and greenbelts. Coordination of activities, land uses, economic development across multiple municipal jurisdictions. Involves granting of some governance fuctions/powers: economic/resource planning. Can be formed by any level of government/non-profit organization. Tennessee value authority formed in us in post war period to deal with region of appellations that is very poor. Construction of power plants located to improve local economic prospects to provide more jobs. In canada, an example in the manitoba interlake and prairie rehabilitation administration: regional environmental planning. New jersey pine lands commission: rural regional planning, metropolitan regional planning. (cid:862)bioregio(cid:374)alis(cid:373)(cid:863) managing natural processes within a functional region usually determined by watershed boundaries. Crombie commission in 1993 was asked by ndp government to promise a reform of regional governance in canadian municipalities. Has not been implemented no regional government agency uses this approach.
