1. There are six major categories of land use in Canadian cities.
TYPES OF URBAN LAND USE
Photo: Eduard Burtynsky – Highway #5, Los Angeles, USA 2009 Hall Collection
There are six major categories of land use in Canadian cities.

2. Agenda
Review Final Assignment
SWOT practice
Types of Urban Land Use

3. SWOT Strengths -what is good Weaknesses -what is bad Opportunities
-how can you make it better
Threats
-challenges that may arise

4. SWOT for NSS area

5. Residential (40% of average city)
Where people live
A mixture of low, medium, high density
Low=detached housing
Medium=townhouses, small apartments buildings
High=large condo towers and high rise apartments
More density closer to city centre

6. Commercial (5%)
A mixture of businesses offering goods and services, varying sizes:  
Convenience Retail (Chinguacousy & Botavia Downs)
Neighbourhood Retail (Fortino's Plaza)
District Retail (Trinity Commons – 410 & Bovaird)
Central Business District (Downtown Toronto)

7. Industrial (6%) These are the factories (2 main types)
Suburban business parks
Ribbon industries (along railways, highways, lake shores)

8. Institutional (10%)
Any land owned / operated by government (schools, hospitals, prisons, etc.)

9. Recreation / Open Space (7%)
Parks, community centres, etc.
Floodplains left "natural"
Any undeveloped land

10. Transportation
Roads, railways, canals, etc.

11. Now, lets add the land uses…
Strengths
-what is good
Weaknesses
-what is bad
Opportunities
-how can you make it better
Threats
-challenges that may arise

12. SWOT for NSS area