GEOG434 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Urban Sprawl, Regional Planning, Permeable Paving
10 Feb 2017
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One of main challenges for the 21st century will be to bring more sustainable human communities. The field that is known as planning is broad and diverse and will be playing a major role in meeting the goal of more sustainable communities. This job deals with the nuts and bolts of how communities, regions, and countries are built and run including how they relate to natural ecosystems; and establishes overall visions of desired futures. Most of this textbook focuses on north america planning with some examples from other countries. Similar problems exist in different parts of the world, not least bc the same technologies and modes of dev are spreading everywhere. Our development crisis is one of environmental damage, leading to phenomena such as global warming, depletion and loss of species. Misguided urbanization- fragmented landscape of subdivisions, freeways, malls, commercial strips, and office parks that cover land. Transportation- rising traffic congestion and over dependency on motor vehicles.
