CITB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Golden Horseshoe, Site Plan, Quality Of Life
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Scarborough town center): re-urbanization and revitalization - focuses on the inner city (downtown), we will mostly be focusing on the nodal approach and re-urbanization and revitalization today, today"s objectives: Identify growth and sustainability as key planning concerns of the 21st century north. Introduce smart growth as contemporary urban reform strategies: discuss current attempts to implement smart growth principles in toronto and the greater. Golden horseshoe: recall weeks 1 and 2 - canadian urban development past and present, growing regions, especially the large mega-metropolitan regions, will face continued pressures to accommodate new populations and new property development. Rapid urban growth has driven up land and housing prices, and flipped huge areas of visibly rural land into the speculative shadow of metropolitan areas. In many regions growth has already overwhelmed the physical infrastructure, and the local tax base, and municipalities (and provinces) have been stretched to provide necessary social services (bourne and simmons,
