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GEOG 346: Last Day!. Guest speaker and review for the final. Housekeeping Items. We will spend half of today’s class session with our guest and half reviewing for the final.
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GEOG 346: Last Day! Guest speaker and review for the final
Housekeeping Items • We will spend half of today’s class session with our guest and half reviewing for the final. • After class – from 11:30 to 1 – there will be a speaker in the Arbutus Room talking about gentrification as a phenomenon in Amsterdam, Vancouver, and Nanaimo. • Our guest today, Lisa Bhopalsingh,is a Senior Planner with the Regional District of Nanaimo currently working on addressing challenges related to Regional Growth Management and building more sustainable rural and urban communities.
Housekeeping Items • Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Lisa later moved to England where she completed her high school education in Bristol followed by a BA Honours Degree in Geography and a Post Graduate Degree in Geography Education from Jesus College, Oxford University. After moving to British Columbia, she received a Masters in planning from the University of British Columbia and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. • Lisa has over ten years of community planning experience in British Columbia involving Regional, Municipal and First Nations governments. Her interest in planning for a more sustainable future includes building community resilience through integrating land use planning with hazard mitigation and using plan-ningprocesses to strengthen a community’s social capital.
Review for the Exam • How are cities a major factor in exacerbating or curbing climate change? • What is peak oil and what are its implications for cities? • What are the implications of the changing demographics for how we plan cities? • What about the changing economic base? • What about the increasingly important role of arts and culture and place-making vs. space-utilization?
Review for the Exam • How have the issues facing planners and municipalities changed in recent years? • How have urban growth patterns changed since World War II and before and what have been the driving forces behind these changes? • What have been the characteristics and consequences? • What are Condon’s 7 Rules and (how) are they interrelated? • What are the strengths and weaknesses of the grid vs. other patterns (radial, dendritic, superblock)?
Review for the Final • What is the “streetcar suburb”? Does it characterize the traditional pattern of all North American cities? • What are the advantages of buses vs. streetcars vs. LRT vs. ‘heavy’ Skytrain and subway technologies, and by what criteria are they to be evaluated? • What are some elements involved in optimizing transportation choice? • What does mixed use look like and how does it relate to the five-minute walking circle (pedestrian shed)? • What are the strengths of nodes vs. linear forms of development?
Review for the Final • What does “jobs/ housing mix” refer to? • How does one optimize diversity and affordability of housing? • What are the implications of different building types for ecological footprint? • What is the meaning of the statement “the site is to the region as the cell is to the body”? • What does it mean to “design with nature”? • How can one integrate the natural and built environments in an urban context?
Review for the Final • What do linked green networks look like, and in what way are they potentially multi-functional? • How does one protect and restore the hydrological regime in an urban region? • How to optimize permeability and diminish ‘hardscaping’? • What are the obstacles to and opportunities for creating more sustainable cities and regions? • What are some particularly noteworthy examples of sustainable cities and regions?
