CITB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gardiner Expressway, Main Source, Transcontinental Railroad
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Planning has always been concerned with building healthy cities. The idea of the gardiner expressway was to get people to live in the suburbs and work/drive in to the city. What was accepted planning ideas/ philosophy in the 1960sish is discredited today( knowing that the waterfront is desired housing, recreational space-taking about. Regent park: full of drug dealers, prostitution, etc. The government decided to do something with this land, however it wasn"t successful because the area was full of poor people. A series of historical circumstances that shapes how cities have developed over time. Objective of today"s class: to identify and describe the main epochs (periods) of canadian urban development, to identify and describe the economic, demographic, social, and political factors that shaped canadian urban development, to provide a historical context . Urban system: the relationship among cities in canada. Canada as port of a colonial trading system.
