Urban Morphology Lec #6

Question 1

Urban morphology

Answer 1

physical space and shape of city defined by the built environment

Question 2

How has commuting changed from the pre-industrial to post-industrial era?

Answer 2

In the pre-industrial era, most people worked from home (ie. owned a family shop just down the stairs)

In post industrial era, commuting became much longer to reach factories or other workplaces

Question 3

What are the most common daily movements in the late 20th century?

Answer 3

home to work, home to school/shop, home to recreation

Question 4

What transportation was used in pre-industrial cities?

Answer 4

horse-drawn carriage (first one in Winnipeg)
Street-cars (montreal was first, vancouver as well)

Question 5

What is the terrible history of street car removal?

Answer 5

GM Motors bought up the streetcars in order to shut them down, and then made supplier to by buses and tires from them

Question 6

How did Montreal commuter rail routes impact urban morphology?

Answer 6

allowed for further travel out of city centre
Served white-collar workers who wanted to live outside city but work in centre
Reduced friction of centre
cities developed a STAR PATTERN
- if you lived at the end you need to live closer to station
-if you live close to centre, you could live further from stations

Question 7

What were the consequences of the freeway era?

Answer 7

people don’t have to be limited to living near stations
Allows for suburb to suburb connection, not just suburb to city
unprecedented freedom of mobility
BUT very hard to have economical mass transit

Question 8

What is urban transit?

Answer 8

the realm of non-personalized transportation in cities (mass transit and public transportation)

Question 9

What are the 4 main eras of transport evolution by Muller?

Answer 9

1) walking/horsecar
2)streetcar
3) recreational automobile
4) freeway era