Urban Sprawl

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Urban Sprawl
PHS Geography Department Enhanced Canadian
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• when a citys population grows there are two ways
  that it can expand
• 1. with an increase in density, usually with
  taller buildings or by filling in vacant land
• 2. outwards into the fringe area around the
  outside of the city, with lower densities

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The rural-urban fringe.
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• since density is lower in the areas of urban
  sprawl, services are farther apart
• increases the use of the car
• increases the impact on the environment
• leads to a loss of farmland
• taxes are high because it is expensive to provide
  services (schools, water, sewers, etc.)

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• developers is the term we apply to people who
  build new residential, industrial, or commercial
  areas
• often land developers buy the land many years in
  advance and let it sit idle
• these people are called speculators
• buying and selling the land pushes up the value
  of the land and encourages more farmers to sell
  their land

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• recently many new developments in suburban areas
  are being built like downtown neighbourhoods with
  higher densities
• reduces sprawl and keeps taxes lower
• often called the new urbanism or smart growth

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Rural Areas What smells?

• A rural area describes land used chiefly for
  agriculture. The word rural may be used to
  describe the life-styles and economic activity of
  the people living in rural area

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Characteristics of typical rural areas

• People in rural areas have job related to
  agriculture
• Rural jobs include supplying goods (feed and
  seed) and services (tractor repair) crop farming
  and raising livestock
• hamlets, villages etc are considered rural places
• Houses single family dwellings

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Continued

• Space between buildings homes far apart
• Style of construction brick or stone or wood
• Settlement pattern scattered or linear
• Development pattern declining as people are
  moving to larger cities looking for job

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