CITB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gardiner Expressway, Import Substitution Industrialization, Yorkdale Shopping Centre
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Lecture 2 (urban)planning is essentially an organisational and political activity envisioning the kind of city we would like to live in. eg- thinking in terms of decades, 20-30 years approx. Changing the physical or built environment, buildings, roads, parks, institutions, residential are very slow change. Cost to build new infrastructure, planning, political support, transportation. Employed, job is to make sure that any development proposal that comes in meets the cities needs. Two dimensions of urban growth and development: urban system, intra- urban structure- (within) as the changes occurring within the city, national urban system, in a particular territory. Mercantile period (1600-1800: canada as part of a colonial trading system, population and settlements remained small, emergence of small-scale subsistence farming. Lumber was the most dominant export in this time. Harold innis- fur , timber- agricultural, breadbasket of the world (canada is the largest wheat producer) Quebec, great lakes, has most of canada"s industry located.
