GGR361H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Transportation Planning, High Standard Manufacturing Company, Landscape Ecology
Document Summary
Chapter 5 (the growth of canadian community planning. 1945 2010) in planning canadian communities (except for pages 122-125) 2oth century began with a pressing demand for housing and urban infrastructure that had bee put aside because of the great depression and wwii, as well as the need to refurbish planning institutions. 21 century began with increasing efforts to deal with the impacts of mass suburbanization and the decline of affordability within the cores of canada"s largest cites. Great depression of the 1930s and the rapid expansion of canada"s industrial facilities or the war created a housing crisis in many cities. After the war the federal government pushed to revive these institutions, which would soon be needed to guide the growth an development of canadian cities and towns. The term exploding metropolis captures the state of urban affairs of the 1950s and the decades that followed.
