GGR124H1 Lecture 8: URB030310
4 Oct 2015
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Defined simply as low density development that is beyond the edge of urban services and employment. Every 6 to 10 years, the city of toronto grows by about 600,000. Most of this growth is accommodated by single-family dwellings on the periphery of the city, ergo suburbanization, bedroom communities where no real services or business interactions occur, mainly residential free. The new-urbanist definition is cookie-cutter houses, wide, treeless, sidewalk- roadways, mindlessly curving cul-de-sacs. a streetscape of garage doors or worse yet, a pretentious slew of mcmansions, complete with obligatory gate house. You will not be welcome there, nor would you ever have any reason to visit this monotonous moonscape . Intensely dependent and predicated upon the automobile; the first thing we notice from the street is the garage. People may say hello on their way from door to car, but true interpersonal relationships and sense of neighbourhood community are often lacking.
