CITB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Environmental Impact Assessment, Porter Airlines, Community Organizing
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Week 1: what is planning, what is urban planning, different approaches of planning, eg toronto porter airlines, unanimous vote for discussions, need to do environmental impact assessment. They will hire a lot of consultants to do that research for them: municipal planner, needs to think of the plan, advocacy, the interest of the community, private, profitability, getting project approved. Week 2: historical eras of epochs, going back to first european colonial development, staples theory. But started to have regional shopping mall. Car was dominant mode of transportation: current growth patterns, canada has uneven growth patter, vancouver, edmonton, gta, ottawa and montreal. 5 urban regions where growth occurs: canada"s net growth is due to immigration. 1% of the population: growing urban regions vs shrinking regions. Shrinking: concerned about attracting and retaining people, different planning objectives than a growing region. Especially in the working class: lack of efficient public infrastructure. Eg great fire in chicago, no effective disaster services.
