Urban Land Use (chapter 21)

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Urban Land Use(chapter 21)
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Six Major Land-Use Groups

• Residential - where people live from
  single-family houses to huge apartment buildings.
  Usually the largest land use in cities (40)
• Residential density of houses per hectare
  affected by cost of land and age of neighbourhood
  (trend has gone from dense to less dense back to
  dense)
• See page 249

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• 2. Transportation 1/3 (33) of developed land
  in most cities is used for roads and highways.
• Vehicles can create a large amount of
  congestion. Mass-transit systems help this
  subway, rail line, bus lane. Expensive, but
  worth it in highly dense areas.
• Terminal Facilities at the end of all travel
  paths train, bus stations, airports, docks,
  parking lots

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• Travel Paths subway, street car,
• and roads and highways 4 types
• Expressways largest- capacity, carry huge
  amounts of traffic quickly over long distances
• Arterial roads moderate amounts of traffic,
  shorter distance
• Collector roads move traffic from local roads
  to arterial roads
• Local roads small and narrow, take people from
  home to arterial or collector roads

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• 3. Commercial Land Use
• - about 5 of citys land use
• - Buying and selling of goods and services
  (business) important for the economy
• 6 main types
• Local service centres (Macs Milk)
• Neighbourhood Plazas and Ribbons (supermarket)
• Community Shopping Centres (Malls)
• Power Centres (big-box stores Canadian Tire)
• Regional Shopping Centres (big malls, department
  stores)
• The Central Business District (CBD) (down-town
  financial, retail, entertainment, hotel)

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• Industrial Land Use(6)
• - Factories (processing and manufacturing)
• - Warehousing (storage)
• - shipping products
• Types
• - CBD industries,
• - ribbon industries,
• - suburban industrial parks
• - suburban business parks
• See page 256

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• Institutional and Public Buildings
• (10) schools, hospitals, government offices,
  places of worship
• Open Space and Recreational Land
• (7) open land vacant, wood lot, cemetery
• recreational parks golf course, arenas

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Factors Affecting Land -Use Patterns

• Land- use patterns in towns and cities do not
  develop by chance. They result from decisions
  made by people about such matters as where to
  work, what type of home to live in, what kind of
  local government to have, and how to spend money.
  Your decisions will affect the way your
  community looks in the future.
• - text page 264

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• 1. Land value
• Land values are generally the highest in the most
  accessible areas (ex. CBD) and along major
  transportation routes
• Zoning
• Lows that control the kind and amount of
  development in an area
• Climate
• Winter-city concept participate in city life
  all year long (you dont even have to step
  outside)

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• Urban Expansion
• - Rural-urban fringe area next to a an urban
  are where there is a mixture of urban and rural
  land uses city expands outwards ( loss of
  productive farm land)
• - Urban Sprawl low-density development
  surrounding a city
• Read pages 261-263