Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Transportation Planning, Positive Force, Official Language
13 Mar 2013
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Lecture 1: land use in ontario- urban sprawl. Smart growth film: we need balance, not space. Sprawl: inner cities and outer suburbs- a fred friendly seminar film: american dream and developments of the suburbs. Sprawl: low denisity, discontinuous development, that forms in suburbs. Characteristics of sprawl: high volumes of traffic: prisoner to your car, not sensible, scattering of businesses, shops and homes: no feasible way to walk to each place. Facts: at the current rate, an additional 260,000 acres (1,070 km2) of rural land will be urbanized by 2031 (an area double the size of the city of toronto, 92% of that land is ontario"s best farmland. Sprawl in ontario: golden horseshoe growing by over 115,000 people per year. In 15 years, it will be the third largest urban region in north america behind only new york and los angeles: we are very dense in some areas, not in others, the horseshoe: developed more north.
