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Urban Land Use.

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1 Urban Land Use

2 Land Use ZONING Bylaws: laws for municipalities (small localities)
ZONING bylaw: Controls the kind of development in an area Eg. You cannot turn your apartment into a small convenience store!

3 6 Major Land Uses 1. Residential: homes
2. Transportation: roads, railways 3. Commercial: stores 4. Industrial: (eg. Food packaging plant) 5. Institutional and Public Buildings: schools, hospitals, churches, gov’t offices 6. Open Land/ Parks: vacant land, woodlots, cemeteries, fields

4 1. Residential

5 Two factors affect residential density:
1) cost of land: More expensive land = higher residential density (eg. Downtown) You need more people to live in a smaller area to pay for the price of the land. Lower land cost = lower residential density (eg. Suburbs) You don’t need as many people to pay for the price of the land 2) Age of the neighbourhood Older neighbourhoods = high residential density They were formed before most people used cars, so people had to walk or bus to places. Therefore, places were close together (high density)

6 2. Transportation Travel paths: roads
Terminal facilities: train station, subway/bus stations…etc

7 3. Commercial Centres Areas that sell a small quantity to individuals

8 4. Industrial Land Use Factories and manufacturing Storage warehouses
Shipping centres

9 4. Institutional and public buildings
schools, hospitals, churches, gov offices, police station

10 Other factors affecting land use

11 Land Use ZONING Bylaws: laws for municipalities (small localities)
ZONING bylaw: Controls the kind of development in an area Eg. You cannot turn your apartment into a small convenience store!

12 THE GREENBELT

13 URBANIZATION Urbanization (noun) is when cities grow and grow and GROW! Urban Sprawl: Urban areas spread too quickly and are difficult to manage. (it is a type of urbanization which has a negative connotation).

14 Positives and Negatives of Urbanization
creation of jobs; larger markets for businesses; better stores to shop at; more services available Negatives: more traffic congestion; more air pollution from traffic; loss of green space; loss of farmland


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