IFAT #3

Question 1

Describe the Ring Road era.

Answer 1

• emergence of edge cities

Edge Cities

• identified as a unique place
• has all normal city functions
• areas previously void of urbanization
• mass jobs, offices, retail space

Question 2

How was America’s suburban project described?

Answer 2

greatest misallocation of resources in the world

invested post-war wealth in a living arrangement that has no future

Question 3

Describe the 401 Highway.

Answer 3

“main street” of Ontario
extensively monitored today
most important development changing the social/economic pattern of Ontario

Question 4

Describe the 407 Highway.

Answer 4

built quickly using projections of how much money they would make based on traffic

take pictures of license plate and bills you

Question 5

What are some things driving change in the modern era?

Answer 5

oil production declining, energy costs go up

scarcity of space

emerging transport technology

• alternative fuels
• ICT (information and communication tech)
• ITS (intelligent transport system)

emerging societal trends

• “local” movements
• physical activity
• aging population

Question 6

Describe what should be happening in the modern era according to Dr. Doherty.

Answer 6

• limited outward growth
• manage existing infrastructure better
• re-birth of mass transit
• more local and social focused
• driverless cars

Question 7

What is Dr. Doherty’s justification for driverless cars?

Answer 7

• need less vehicles
• don’t need parking space (frees up land)
• reduction in accidents

Question 8

What is most closely linked to urban growth?

Answer 8

transport technologies

Question 9

Describe the Mass Transit Era in Europe and Asia.

Answer 9

• 1950-1990
• expanded primarily on express bus lines and rail lines
• new towns planned were transit oriented
• walking cores retained
• high-rise apartments in abundance

Question 10

What are the stages of the Mass Transit Era?

Answer 10

• walking city cores
• bus/tram linear corridors
• rail-oriented edge cities

Question 11

Describe Walking city cores.

Answer 11

many areas limit auto travel

mixed use, highly dense

Question 12

Describe bus/tram linear corridors

Answer 12

• main streets most common
• narrow continuous shops, close to street
• highly multi-modal

Question 13

Describe rail-oriented edge cities.

Answer 13

focused on a mass transit station
high density employment in centre
housing within walking distance of station
internal access mostly by foot
fees for car parking

Question 14

What does Hagerstand say about time-geography?

Answer 14

basic needs/desires/goals generate projects
ex. education

projects involve a series of actions

travel is often needed

Question 15

What are time-space paths?

Answer 15

tasks and travel incorporated

constrained by time in a day and other factors

Question 16

What are the 3 types of time-space path constraints?

Answer 16

capability constraints
coupling constraints
authority constraints

Question 17

What are examples of capability constraints?

Answer 17

ex. can only walk so fast

ex. can’t be in 2 places at once

Question 18

What are examples of coupling constraints?

Answer 18

ex. can’t attend a lecture in which there is no teacher

ex. matching up schedule with kids’ school schedule

Question 19

What are examples of authority constraints?

Answer 19

ex. mall shopping hours

ex. speed limits

Question 20

What are some aspects that can be tracked using a GPS?

Answer 20

location
general activity
speed of travel/modes of transport
time spent @ locations
home location

Question 21

What can GPS not track?

Answer 21

attributes of activities (ex. who with, what buy)
missed trips (ex. phone died, bad signal)
how observed patterns come about (ex. why)

Question 22

What are prompted recall diaries?

Answer 22

taking GPS tracked information and interviewing them on who they were with and what activity they were doing at each location to get accuracy

Question 23

What does Jeff Speck say the worst idea ever was?

Answer 23

suburban sprawl/reorganization of landscape around automobile use

Question 24

What are the 3 reasons Jeff Speck lists to live in a walkable neighbourhood?

Answer 24

money, environment, health