PLAN261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Traffic Calming, Environmental Design, Gated Community

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Planning
• Course: PLAN261
• Professor: Qian Zhu

Document Summary

This week professor qian introduced more planning theories of the suburban neighbourhood especially the gated neighbourhood, we discovered the evolution, features, advantages and disadvantages of gated neighbourhood, as well as the use of traffic control and open space planning. Suburban area is a periphery location that attached to a dominant centre, it has a distinctive culture and very low density. Model-t automobile in 1908, automobile registration in the u. s. raised significantly from 1908 to 1945. Major cities started to develop their freeway system after the world war ii (1945-1960). The cul-de-sac means the road with a dead end, which reduces the traffic volume, noises and air pollution within a subdivision. Gated communities are privatized and protected residential areas, usually with restricted access; they first appeared in the u. s. in the late 19th century and remained rarities in the next century. Gated communities tend to have unconnected subdivisions and self-governing homeowners associations.