GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Urban Sprawl, Urban Design, Tonne
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It doesn"t matter how much infrastructure you have. If everyone uses cars for every trip there will be congestion. A form of urbanization distinguished by leapfrog patterns: leapfrog development is jumping over undeveloped land, toronto does not leap frog. Cause we build pipelines straight though and if we leap frog itd be a waste. Dispersed developments: lower densities that the existing area. Development with large areas of single-use development: spreading everything apart. Housing in one place, retail somewhere else. And so no one could walk to anything causing the need for a car. The us lead the world into large car ownership. Allowed for them to control their own government after they more out. What is sprawl (reading) this is a multiple choice q on final. Plater-zyberk and speck: one o the leaders of new urbanism and smart growth, they argue that the 5 components of sprawl are.
