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Thursday, November 23, 2006

The poor people travel from the inner city to the suburbs to make a living while the better off do the exact opposite. What a mess, what a waste.

At 2:37 PM, Desiderius1979 said…

That's more prevalent in U.S. cities, not so much in T.O. (only the rich can afford property in the city here), but the situation you describe is well documented in urban planning. The field is obsessed with trying to force people to correct this foolish and wasteful behaviour through creative zoning, facility placements, node creation, transportation networks...all to no avail. As much as they bitch about commuting, people in general do not want to live and work in the same place.
At 8:01 PM, Anonymous said…

You have my attention. What's a node? It sounds very mysterious!

But not everyone is this way; there's a girl I work with who lives near the ACC and she just walks to/from work everyday.
I suppose she's some type of urban pioneer...
At 10:22 AM, Desiderius1979 said…

If ur talking about the Air Canada Centre, then you're talking about Toronto, which as I said is actually pretty good in terms of this issue...so the girl is not such a major pioneer here. In the U.S. she would be more so.

Re: Nodes...planning theory 101...let me give it a shot. Basically, don't put all your eggs in one basket (don't put every job and facility downtown). Create mini-centres (nodes) evenly spread out across the metropolis. Not everyone likes to live in the city...many prefer burbs...and with nodes in the burbs, these people won't have to commute to the city daily. You can live where you want, but still be able to find a good job near by.