ZONING

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• ZONING
• SINGLE-USE DEVELOPMENT
• MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT

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DIVERSE URBAN PLACES A NEIGHBOURHOOD PERSPECTIVE
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NATURAL CITIES vs PLANNERS THEORIES

• Importance of diversity
• Conditions for diversity

• Two or more primary mixed uses
• Short blocks
• Buildings of various ages
• Density (vs. overcrowding)

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SELF-DESTRUCTION OF DIVERSITY

• Diverse, lively, attractive neighbourhood
• Some businesses more profitable
• Out-bid less profitable ones
• Diversity is crowded out
• Neighbourhood loses its atractiveness

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END RESULT

• Either complete decay and abandonment
• Or stabilization as a single-use neighbourhood
  with problems
• Example high-density commercial downtown core
• Portage and Main

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MAIN ELEMENTS OF URBAN COMMERCIAL CORE

• Office buildings
• Hotels
• Major retail developments
• Major sport facilities

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• WHYTE AVENUE, OLD STRATHCONA
• LITTLE ITALY (CORYDON VILLAGE)

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A WORD ABOUT THEORY

• No theory explains everything
• Grey areas, uncertainties, reality doesnt match
  completely
• A way of looking at the world
• Allows you to see things you wouldnt have noticed

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JACOBS, CH 11 THREE IMPORTANT POINTS

• Importance of density
• Difference between density and overcrowding
• When is density too high?

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COMPARING GREAT PUBLIC PLACES WITH JANE JACOBS

• Public place criteria focus mainly on the place
  itself
• Jacobs focuses on the surroundings

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MAKING THE FORKS BETTER YET

• Improve access for pedestrians and cyclists
• Put mixed-income housing on or near the grounds

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CRITERIA FOR A GREAT PUBLIC SPACE

• Access and linkages

• Easy to get to and through
• Visible from both a distance and close up

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MORE CRITERIA

• Comfort and image
• Uses and activities
• Sociability

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SELF-DESTRUCTION OF DIVERSITY JACOBSS SOLUTIONS

• Competitive diversion
• Staunchness of public buildings
• Zoning for diversity

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ZONING FOR DIVERSITYWHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT IT?

• Loft neighbourhoods
• Theme neighbourhoods
• Some greater flexibility

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THE CURSE OF BORDER VACUUMS

• Definition Edge of a single massive, or
  stretched-out land use
• Examples

• Hospital complexes
• Railroad tracks
• Expressways
• Harbours
• Large-scale parks
• Universities

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JACOBSS SOLUTIONS

• Open the university to the community
• Bring the community to the universitys edge

• Retail development on Spence
• Bookstore
• Anthropology and biology displays