PLAN100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Walkability, Walk Score, Trip Generation
2 Jan 2017
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Chapter 10: transportation / transport and land-use interactions in cities: getting closer to. One critical reason is that city enables people, households, and firms to gain access to each other. Looks at canadian cities through lens of accessibility. Alexander et al. expressed importance of putting magic of city within reach of everyone in a metropolitan area. Ideal city where a person could easily reach desired destinations/opportunities. Accessibility is often confused with mobility: accessibility: ease of reaching valued destinations, mobility: ability to move from one place to another. Speed, efficiency and fluidity of automobile transport have been central concerns, using indicators such as congestion as one of main measures of mobility. The urban system cycle includes: activity -> transportation -> accessibility -> land use. History of transport systems and city structure in canada: cities typically had their origins partly as result of advantages w/ respect to accessibility.
