HGP240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blue-Collar Worker
17 Sep 2019
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Walking and biking a lot less e cient. Driveways and houses at the front of the lot. That includes not just households that have been here for a long time but also migrants. Active core: walking, cycling, active travel , downtown. Auto-suburb: great majority of edmonton landscape (3/4ths) We are focused on the 69%: automobile suburbs. Apart from the 12% in the active core, about 88% live in suburban areas. Even toronto montreal and vancouver are overwhelmingly suburban. Vancouver: for each each resident in the metro there are 3 resident in the suburbs. Most people left the city for the suburbs. 1945 onwards: even blue collar workers moved to the suburbs. The only ne whooshing build is in the suburbs. And then retailing followed which was previously concentrated downtown. Origins of mall (classic suburban land use ) We nee dto indertand that many areas now within the city limits have Very e cient process of mass production of house.
