When was walking and horsecars the main type of transportation?
Up till 1888
When was streetcars and commuter rail the main types of transportation?
1888-1920s
When was recrational auto the main type of transportation?
1920s-1950s
When was the freeway era?
1950s-2010
When was the integrated mobility era?
2010-now
What was the concentric zone theory?
A city grows in a series of rings surrounding the CBD
What was the sector model?
A city grows in a series of wedges or corridors extending out from the CBD
What is an example of activites that would attract each other?
Families and parks
What is an example of activities that would repel each other?
Factories and rish people
What was the multiple-nuclei model?
City as a collection of individual centers, around which different people and activities cluster
What was important about Model T?
- Assembly line like
- Large
- Mass-produced
What is urban sprawl?
Unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning
What are traits of urban sprawl?
- Unlimited outward extension
- Low density development
- Leapfrog development miles beyond the urban fringe
- Fragmentation powers among many small municipalities
- Dominance of transportation by private automobiles
- Lack of centralized planning by private automobiles
- Lack of centralized planning or control of land uses
- Segregation of types of land uses in different zones
What is the bid rent curve?
Migrants live closer to CBD, better housing further from CBD
What is a suburb?
A mixed use or residential district located on the outskirts of a city
What is suburbanization?
The popultion shift from the central urban area into the suburbs
What was the changes in the urban suburban landscape?
Residential development came first, followed by shopping, then industries and service activities
- Retail followed the market
- Industry followed the employees
What is fordism (1945)?
an industrial system that combines
mass production using assembly lines
with high wages, creating a cycle where workers can afford to buy the products they make
- large-scale
What is post fordism?
an economic model that emerged in the 1980s, representing a shift from Fordism’s mass production to a system characterized by flexible manufacturing, specialized products, and global supply chains
- Service oriented
- Customization
What was the first Canadian planned suburb?
Don mills (1960)
What did the suburban neighbourhood look like before WW2?
Row housing
- Dense
- Cookie cutter
What did the suburban neighbourhood look like after WW@?
- Low density
- Cookie Cutter
What does the CMHC stand for?
Canadian Mortgage Housing Corporation
- Government body
What is an ethnoburb?
A suburban residential business area with a notable cluster of a particular ethnic minority population Significant portion of the population
