GGR361H5 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 – Planning Regional and Metropolitan Communities
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Chapter 8 planning regional and metropolitan communities. Planning for the built and natural environment is commonly talked about on two levels city or urban (community) planning and regional planning. Regional planning is concerned with many facets of the built environment, the natural environment and the social and economic activities occurring in large areas that may include cities and towns. Regional planning is a product of the intellectual and social ferment of europe and north america in the mid and late 19th century. Geddes tried to de(cid:373)o(cid:374)strate his (cid:374)otio(cid:374)s; his hypotheti(cid:272)al geographi(cid:272)al u(cid:374)it (cid:862)the valley e(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:863) The valley section presented the relations of a set of settlements, each with distinctive geographical and human values in the form of a transect from wilderness to urban use. He proposed the need to plan together all the features of a river basin and the needs of a population for land for recreation and residences.
