Lecture Notes Midterm Review Flashcards

Question

Who is Mark Garneau

Answer 1

He noticed edge cities. They are cities that cluster around core cities for example Warman. This emerged in the neoliberalism era.

Answer 2

He believed in the Garden City movement. He didn't like European cities and wanted to beautify the city. Edge cities are linked to the core by a train. So there is a central area with smaller centers around. But there's garden and greenery in between. Some of this did happen in Britain. We see evidence of this in Vancouver with the skytrain.

Answer 3

He had the towers in the park idea. It was a modern, sci-fi idea. People lived in the towers in a communal living kind of way. He did this because he didn't like the spreading out he thought we need to build up. There are high-rises in West Vancouver and Burnaby.

Answer 4

This includes the planning ideas such as the city beautiful movement by Daniel Burnham, the Garden City movement by Ebenezer Howard, the towers in the park movement by Le Corbusier.

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We went from the streetcar to the automobile and suburbs 1940, went to auto oriented development 1950, started investing in transit 1970, now a new urbanism 2000

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Developed by Daniel Burnham. Up until this time cities were often seen as overcrowded dirty and unpleasant places. There is an interest to beautify the cities by building large gardens, plazas, grand boulevards. This became well-known because of the world Columbian exposition in Chicago. We see evidence of this today in the Alberta and Saskatchewan Parliament buildings.

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Developed by Robert Moses. She was really Pennton freeways and didn't include transit she was all for cars. He believed in urban renewal which is knocking down old structures and making new ones. We see evidence of this today, Idlewild and Circle Drive.

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Trade between two countries. Globalization is more than this.

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It has multiple meanings. Globalization has minimized space location place distance. Distance is less relevant today than it was before globalization has led to increase homogenization of the world. There is increased connectedness. There is increased communication. This term was coined by Canadian Marshall McLuhan. It is also referred to as Time space compression.

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The company that operates beyond and between international borders

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There's degradation of place, location, regions, cultures. It sometimes results in cultural assimilation and environmental consequences.

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There is reduced regulation, removal of trade protection barriers, environmental standards are reduced, freer trade

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Trying to allow farmers in developing countries to benefit from higher prices. It's a trend to try and counter the negative effects of globalization.

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The declining manufacturing and a shift toward knowledge-based economy. A rise in the creative class. There is a small decline in agriculture and a rise in the service class as well.

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Artists, authors, professionals such as lawyers and doctors, musicians, business advisors, communication specialists.

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That before we were highly reliant upon staples such as fish and Forrestry but now There is a shift toward more creative class industry Such as video games, NewMedia, recording.

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Richard Florida

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Technology- innovation. Talent – skilled and ambitious people that are entrepreneurial. Tolerance – ethnic diversity and open-mindedness nonjudgmental.

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Creativity is the fundamental driver of our economy. They are the new socioeconomic class (Includes scientists, engineers, designers, artists, entertainers etc.). This is about 30% of the workforce in Canada.

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They're not evenly spread, they cluster in key centers. These cities where they cluster generate new ideas, innovation and Companies.

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Ottawa, Vancouver, Montréal

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The principle of land-use zoning, post-World War II baby boom and the need for houses, federal financing for housing loans, Road expansion, availability of cheap land on fringe, low cost of cars and fuel

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Term comes from village of Euclid Ohio. This is the separation of land uses

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I return to the urban core. Older homes being bought by high income families then renovated and restored. Land value increases and rent increases. Lower income residents are displaced. Example of this is nutana and Broadway.

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The ability to get around. This was big after World War II. It is movement between distances. There is lots of private space and social exclusion but there is automobile dependency. Technology has reduced distance friction. Mobility is age Dependent. There is land-use separation.

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More popular now. Proximity and connectivity. There is the public space. There is social transit and social inclusion. We do mixed land uses

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When we have road congestion we increase road capacity in order to improve it. This Decreases road congestion temporarily but then more people use the roads so road congestion Returns. It's a cycle

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Automobile dependency. Partly caused because of poor land-use planning. Produces noise water and air pollution. Sometimes results in accidents injuries and death. It makes a pedestrian unfriendly landscape

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We rethink our priorities. We want to get people around not cars around. So we build multimodal transportation options (Bike, car, bus, train, walk ) we change urban design features (Like make storefront access, bike lanes, rear parking lots, walk in shops) and create mixed land-use.

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Transit oriented development. It's a planning method where we try and apply the accessibility approach. There is a transit hub in the center with commercial and High density areas, and then slowly branch out into less dense residential.

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Peter Calthorpe. He talked about the need to diversify land-use. A wide range of types of people and income. Mixed with shops, grocery stores, offices, schools. There needs to be walk ability. Needs to be bike friendly, There needs to be public space. He focused on DESITY, DIVERSITY, SCALE.

Answer 32

In order to try and reduce the parking problem in England they are limit the number of cars and an area or district and tax other vehicles highly for entry

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Cities of the same country seem to cluster together on how dependent they are on vehicle

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Cities within the same country clustered together. American cities have high energy use. Australian cities are next, then European cities, then Asian cities. It seems like where there is low-density there is much more consumption.

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Alternative transportation modes? Such as a light rail.

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I'm means of measurement. Often used to better understand what sustainable means. One example of metric To measure sustainability would be CO2 emissions.

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Buses have lowest, then trains, then cars, then air travel has highest

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Calgary, 16%, Winnipeg 13%, Saskatoon at about 4%

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Land-use or environment, community design or social, transit policy or economy.

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Percent housing within 450 m of commercial shops, percent of housing within 450 m of bus route, percent of potential lots within 450 m of the bus route

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Transit Road thing as a percent of total length, percent of storefront covered transit stops.

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Percent of transit vehicles using alternate fuels. Percent of transit vehicles with bike racks. Intermodal Travel with transfer fares

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1960s – frontier economics on one end and deep ecology on the other end. Thank you 70s – resource management on one end and selective environmentalism on the other end

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The definition is meeting the needs of today without compromising the needs of future generation. But how do we define needs, mine could be different than yours. It's holding back the developing world. The word is vague and overused we need better ways to measure it. It doesn't recognize The role of politics.

Answer 45

Week sustainability is the thought process that we can deplete a resource now because there'll be something to replace it in the future. There will be new technology. And pricing will overcome depletion I.e. salmon example. Strong sustainability says whatever we have right now we should not deplete it, we should only live off the interest.

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Nuclear – it is carbon emission free but it's expensive and there's waste storage problems. Hybrid vehicles – they do reduce fossil fuel use but it still takes a lot of metal to make them.

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If you improve the efficiency of something that doesn't mean that the negative consequences will go away but actually they will increase. The example was coal burning in the UK in 1860s. They improved coal burning technology so they wouldn't deplete coal resources but that actually just increased coal consumption.

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And throw Ocentric give you the finds a reason worse as a resource if it's useful to people. Not available resources are unlikely to replenish over human lifetime but renewable resources are. So strong sustainability would say We should only use the renewable resources.

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It is a integrated system that is adaptable and flexible. Term came from English botanist named tansley. We could maybe apply it to the urban system

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We need to reimagine nature, not just where we Plantree's but things like urban forests and green corridors. It needs to be citizen engagement and planning and decision-making. We need to have cultural diversity and amenities. The built environment should have some civic pride. We need to consider human impacts on the physical environment, built environment, social and cultural.

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These cause people to emigrate from a country sometimes they are religious persecution, warfare, political unrest, climate change or economic collapse.

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Because people to immigrate into a country. Some examples are economic incentives, social or political, cultural or Femia Leo, host country policies. So kind of the same as push factors but the opposite

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Refugee movements are usually temporary and Uncertain. But about 14% of Canada's new immigrants started out as refugees

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In the past policies favorite British and European immigrants. In the 1960s a point system was introduced based on education skills and language. Today we need more people in the service industry. Now there is a problem with questioning foreign credentials

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Multiculturalism allows for difference and protection rights of diversity. Encourages multilingualism. Assimilation tries to push people into the mainstream, use one language, go away from culture and difference.

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Citizenship is the view from the bottom up. It's cytisine engagement and the rights and responsibilities of individuals. Governance is the view of the city from the top down. It is government organizations that make decisions.

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She is a planner out of the US who wrote a book called retrofitting suburbia. This involves improving old neighborhoods In the suburbs and converting them into more urban environments

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The closer you are to downtown the higher the value of your property. This is true of almost all Canadian cities.

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Transit is essential to support retrofits. 300 m water buffers, daylight streams, public support for retrofits, improved architecture for retrofits.

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Yan Geyl. From Copenhagen Denmark.

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