Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Golden Horseshoe, Coastal Erosion, Positive Force
22 Sep 2016
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Land use and urban sprawl (land use in ontario): Sprawl is the spreading out of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land at the periphery of an urban area. Conversion of open space into built-up developed land over time. Scattering businesses, shops, school and homes: all different places. Pedestrian unfriendly streets: places you wouldn"t want to walk. Zoning that divides neighborhoods form offices, shops and restaurants: parcel them all out, encourage the purchasing of cars for use. Parking lots that push buildings back and farther away from each other: long walk from the sidewalk to the store. Forces people to drive so they are closer to the stores. At the current rate, an additional 260,000 acres (1, 070km2) of rural land will be urbanized by 2031 (an area double the size of the city of toronto: only new york and los angeles will be bigger. 92% of that land is ontario"s best farmland.
