1/29/22, 9:17 PM RSW MT-02 (Vancouverism)

RSW MT-02 (Vancouverism)

Start Assignment

Due
Saturday by 8:59pm
Points
30
Submitting
a file upload

Today, many cities in the world still rely on outdated modes of planning notwithstanding that planning is
central to achieving sustainable urban development. Unplanned urbanization has also often led to pollution,
congestion, segregation, sprawl and other unintended consequences.

A common problem with the conventional Euclidean zoning used by many communities is its focus on
separating potentially incompatible land uses. This separation has made our development patterns
inefficient, forcing residents to drive longer distances to get to their jobs, schools, shops, and services,
which increases traffic congestion, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.

The rapid rate of urbanization needs to be effectively managed to ensure that the potential economic and
social development arising from urbanization are optimized to reduce poverty, improve the quality of life and
protect the environment.

As the city progresses further into urbanism, poor planning takes its toll on the environment and its
inhabitants within the city in its critical level. Calling for a definite arrest on the environmental deterioration to
keep a better future for the city. Responsive development plans must be drawn up and implemented
effectively and efficiently.

The process of urbanization is one of the most important dimensions of economic, social, and physical
changes. It is almost a truism that the planet’s future is an urban one and that the largest and fastest-growing
cities are in developing countries. Rapid urban population growth means an increasing demand for urban
land. But measures must be taken into consideration now, in order to create a more sustainable
development.

The Development of a certain country is usually equated into the rapid growth of its urban areas. Most
people perceive development as a means of alleviating the economic situation of a certain locality and in
turn converting a sparsely built-up green area into a garden of concrete blocks and asphalt. This becomes
an ill-effect of urban development called urban sprawl.

According to (Rinkesh, n.d.), Urban sprawl is basically another word for urbanization.  It refers to the
migration of a population from populated towns and cities to low-density residential development over more
and more rural land.  The end result is the spreading of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land.

With this, Major cities and suburbs are becoming overcrowded creeping towards supposed greenbelts
surrounding the city creating adverse effects on the population, environment, and health of the city’s
inhabitants.
https://uc-bcf.instructure.com/courses/15550/assignments/220678 1/2
1/29/22, 9:17 PM RSW MT-02 (Vancouverism)

Write a paper exploring the planning concept of "Vancouverism" what it is all about, what are the different
planning principles behind it, and whether this planning concept may be adapted into the major cities of the
country. If not as a whole, maybe some of the planning principles within the concept of "vancouverism" that
could create a better opportunity for our cities to become more sustainable in the future. 

https://uc-bcf.instructure.com/courses/15550/assignments/220678 2/2