GEOG 3UP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nimby, Student Center, Flight Controller
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Nov. 7 week 9: planning tools for developed lands. Looks at the local government perspective and from the citizens and corporations. Common mistake: not just about land use. Introduced by german town planners for planning industrial towns in the 19th century. The concept was incepted to crease districts of specific uses to increase productivity. The concept evolved and refines and now is known as zoning. First application in canada was in kitchener, on 1924. Residential: r1 single family, r2 one and two family, r3 apartments (medium density, c commercial, m industrial, p public use, en environmentally sensitive. Building envelope (also known as building bulk), you can have the same characteristics of land, every land ratio turns a certain way which contributes to height and bulk: ex. Equal social distribution giving residence the equally opportunity to see aesthics: ex. As you are building as high building, a vertical set back might be required to allow specific sun light.