GGR361H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Renwal, Progressive Era, Industrial Revolution
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Periodization of canadian city building and planning: early mercantile (colonial/ imperial) period - late 1500s to mid 1700s, late mercantile (colonial) period - mid 1700s to mid 1800s. Town hall was located in the center with housing districts grouped, narrowed streets, dense settlements, walking towns: early industrial period mid 1800s through 1930s. Progressive era, urban reform movements (1890s, 1900-1st ww) Progressive era (legislation, districting, building codes and zoning: period of time where a lot of practice took change because of industrial revolution, waste management, trade, transportation and misallocation of housing and tenement housing (housed the working class). Street car lines promoted the settlements of wealthy people living on the edges of the city with the center of the city concentrated with migrant workers. Started the emergence of social inequality, poverty and slums. Planning reform and acts were implemented through districts and house planning acts, road maintenance all had to meet a certain criterion.
