The document discusses the importance of land-use planning in relation to environmental events and urban development, highlighting how effective planning can protect landscapes and create functional cities. It outlines various disasters from 2013 and emphasizes that planning affects both local and global environments. Key planning principles include walkability, connectivity, and sustainability, along with a personal 'place-making score' to evaluate urban livability.

1. Water
• http://www.wingclips.com/movie-
clips/rango/believe-in-something
… with water, there’s life.

2. What is Planning?
 Land-use planning:
 Protects the Landscape
 Creates the Streetscape
What is Planning?

3. Why does Planning matter?
 It affects everything from global warming to
parking lots…
(worst typhoon recorded 2013)
(new school 2012)
Why does Planning matter?

4. Monsignor Lee
Catholic School
1st annual?
World Town Planning Day
Design Charette

5. Brazil Drought
4 January 2013
(worst drought in 50 years)
(deadly flood - December)

6. California Drought
February 2013
(driest since records began 130 years ago)

7. Alberta Flood
20 June 2013
(worst in Alberta history)

8. Toronto Flood
8 July 2013
(Ontario’s most costly natural disaster)

9. Colorado Flood
9 September 2013
(1:1000 year flood)

10. Typhoon Haiyan
8 November 2013
(JMA & EUMETSAT)

11. Typhoon Haiyan (2)
(ISS)

12. Typhoon Haiyan (3)
(aircraft flyover)

13. Typhoon Haiyan (4)
(street level)

14. Question?
• If a global event can affect what happens
at street level, can street level events
affect what happens at the global level?

15. Our Street Level
Monsignor Lee
 Drivers going wrong way
 Three-point turns
 Backing up in line
 Parking in fire lanes
 Parking in turn-about lane
 Blocking buses
 Blocking sidewalks
 Not using sidewalks
 Accidents
 OPP
Parking lot

16. How does Planning matter?
 When done well:
 preserve the countryside
 build the city
 When done poorly:
 destroy countryside
 produce sub-urban sprawl
How does Planning matter?

17. Sprawl: major cause of climate change

18. The Way Planning matters
1. Walkability
2. Connectivity
3. Multiplicity
4. Diversity
5. Quality
6. Traditional structure
7. Density
8. Transportation
9. Environment
10.Integration

19. • Walkability &
Connectivity
• Downtown Core
• 5 min. walk

20. Multiplicity & Quality

21. Diversity

22. Traditional Structure

23. Density & Transportation

24. Environment

25. Integration
• ALL the above elements must be used
together to achieve a healthy human
habitat

26. Place-making Score
• My House
1. Walkability 5
2. Connectivity 6
3. Multiplicity 5
4. Quality 3
5. Diversity 4
6. Traditional structure 5
7. Density 4
8. Transportation 6
9. Environment 8
10. Integration 5
TOTAL 51%

27. Walkscore
• Out of 100 the score for:
– Monsignor Lee = 63
– My house = 52
– Orillia = 47
http://www.walkscore.com/score

28. Vue Cinema Exeter
flooded on opening day of “Noah”
4 April 2014
(flooding due to ice machine failure)

29. Largest glacier calving ever filmed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgI
PoGU&feature=player_embedded

30. Active Transportation
• Urban Planning 101
• http://vimeo.com/21317575