GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Industrial Revolution, Urban Planning
22 Nov 2017
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Recall cities have a number of broad land uses>>> residential, industrial, commercial, institutional, transportation, public. These land uses are allocated to certain areas via competition for land and urban planning. Today we will talk about urban planning. Urban planning is the organization of land uses, transportation, and social services to improve the built, economic, and social environments of communities. Urban planning involves trying to resolve some of the problems to past/current development. It came as a response to the appalling sanitary, social, and economic conditions of rapidly-growing industrial cities. ^^^people ood into cities and cities not ready. Conditions poor and urban planning was in response to that. Initially it was architects and civil engineers who became urban planners. Later public health specialists, economists, sociologists, lawyers, and geographers. Today most urban planners are geographers, and urban planning is one of the main career paths of geography graduates.
