PLAN100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Outlet Store, Arena, North York City Centre
2 Jan 2017
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Chapter 17: new urban forms / emerging urban forms in the canadian city. How cities change and what factors shaped transformation. New theories of sustainable development, new urbanism, and smart growth gradually gained adherents and began to influence public policy and market trends. Infrastructure networks and dominant technologies while conforming to regulations, such as building codes, zoning bylaws, and infrastructure standards. Cautious homebuyer considers potential preferences of subsequent purchaser: lending institutions shy away from unusual house designs, preferring proven styles. Over past decades, economic transformations have had profound impacts on cities. In many cities, rising levels of service consumption contribute to growing appeal of revitalized residential areas in the core and the inner city. Deepening income polarization resulting from loss of middle-class jobs and reduced transfer payments is having a dramatic effect on social geography of canadian cities as number of middle-class neighborhoods dwindle. Changing cultural values and practices have had significant effects on urban form over the past.
