PLAN100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Transit-Oriented Development, Spatial Planning, Environmental Values
20 Mar 2016
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Chapter 18 emerging urban forms in the canadian city. Recent decades have produced changes in the urban form, a shift away from car- oriented development towards sustainable, new-urbanist choices in many places. New physical forms include multi-functional, mixed use development, complete communities, segregated patterns. Stability caused by limiting factors on innovation like policy, infrastructure, dominant technologies, conservatism by lenders: there are still ways forces can challenge built-in inertia of cities. Economic transformation has a big impact on cities: shift to service industry has big impact as it created more consumption, grow appeal of neighbourhoods: income polarization has effect of shrinking middle class, changing social geography. New urban form is that developers try to reduce costs, have more economic control by building private services and streets, changing social and spatial sorting of landscapes. Building technology has stayed the same but technology like just-in-time delivery and growth of big-box stores changes commercial spaces throughout city.
