GEOG434 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Environmental Protection, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl
26 Apr 2017
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Land use planning is heart of sustainable planning, land use decisions happens at the local governments. Land use planning is deciding what land will be used for, what will happen on that land. Zero sum- if something is there, other things are out. If you build a school somewhere, you can not put a hospital there. Land is a limited resource, only so much, and only has room for so much. Some areas of country is experiencing positive growth and others are experiencing negative. When additional pressure put on a finite piece of land, you have to change how you do things. In the us, typically what weve done and how we"ve approached land use is the classic suburban sprawl pattern- we"ve moved outward, taken land that was formerly undeveloped and developed it. Areas with positive population growth either from more births than deaths or immigration, these areas typically are the ones that sprawl.
