Lecture 7 - Cities on the Edge Flashcards
What percentage of Canadians live in suburban areas?
2/3 or 66%
Roughly how many immigrants arrive in Canada each year?
250,000, this varies each year.
Where do newcomers to cities tend to settle?
Suburban & Exburban areas
The combination of non-central population and economic growth with urban spatial expansion
Suburbanization
Refers to a growing prevalence of qualitatively distinct “suburban way of life”
- Emerging modes of heterogenous, non-traditional ways of living at the urban periphery
Suburbanisms
What are Exburbs?
Very low-density rural areas where more than half the workers commute to the central core. They live in rural-estate subdivisions or along country roads, and comprise roughly 8% of the metropolitan population in 2016
What are Automobile Suburbs?
These are the classic suburban neighbourhoods. Almost everybody commutes by car, there is little transit use and hardly anyone walks or cycles to work. They include about 67% of metropolitan populations
What are Transit Suburbs?
Neighbourhoods where a higher proportion of people commute by transit, comprising about 12% of metropolitan populations
What defines an “Active Core”?
Downtowns and other neighbourhoods where a higher proportion of people walk or cycle to work. These neighbourhoods, which most international observers would consider “urban,” make up only 14 per cent of Canadian metropolitan populations
What distorts the perception of suburbs?
Urbanists “romanticize” cities
Suburbs evolve in response to…?
A life cycle of residents
As political, economic, or social conditions change
As their relative location within metro region is altered by continued urban growth and expansion
What can be said about the contemporary Canadian suburbs?
Increasingly defined by the immigrant experience
More heterogenous
Contemporary pattern is to move directly into the suburbs
Destabilized stereotypes of white middle-class nuclear families living in single family homes as the norm. DIVERSITY!
What social problems have begun happening in suburban areas?
Poverty, Homelessness, Food Insecurity
This results in different implications for policy makers and service providers than “inner-city” counterparts.
What is an important aspect of building new suburbs from the ground up?
Creating quality social infrastructure, as we see happening in Surrey. Typically suburban areas are too slow at addressing this initially, leading to more social problems in the future.
What are the newest “suburban” forms we are beginning to see?
Edge Cities
Technoburbs
Suburban downtowns
