GEOG 3205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Community Development Block Grant, Development Corporations, Civil Disorder
Document Summary
Urban design: the way in which humans shape the urban environment, focus on one or more buildings, neighborhoods, park systems, highway corridors, entire new towns, etc, emphasize physical relationships in the creation of urban space. Bad design can stifle the human spirit, while good design can positively influence life in the city. Urban planning: management of urban change, focus on layout of neighborhoods, cities & regions, but also needs of community. Urban planning in the us: key urban elements: Town plan: most used tool: land use zoning. Limits types of development through zoning ordinances. Implement planned improvements: massive infrastructure projects, regenerate poor urban areas to improve housing conditions, moral & economic life. Formal policy of urban renewal in us: housing acts of 1949 & 1954. Opposition to urban renewal: organizing to stop demolition & highway construction i. e. toronto spadina expressway cutting off neighborhoods. Debate between urban & suburban goals: civil disorder. Contemporary urban regeneration: community development block grant.
