GGR100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Culture War, Agenda 21, Reproductive Rights
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Lecture 11: urban sprawl, smart growth, path dependence. History of planning policy in the gta. A form of urbanization distinguished by leapfrog patterns of development, commercial sgtrips, low density, separated land uses, automobile dominmance, and a minimum of public open space (gillham, 2002: leap frog jumping over from city to agricultural land. Very prominent in the usa except for the dessert in las veges but almost every city in the us has leap frog development. Developers buy land farther out from the city and develop on that: lower density existing in urban development. Dispersed development, at lower denstities than existing urban areas. Development with large areas of single sue development. Rapidly growing car ownership: other countries have caught up to the usa, asian countries of affluence have started to spread out because housing is being built outside the city. The farther you get away from the city, the cheaper the housing is.
