Explore DOWNTOWN TORONTO!
A place deserve from you to go and take a look!
Urban land use
Toronto is a very busy place with a lot of traffic. Downtown Toronto is a place that provides the customers any kind of product they are willing to buy, as it contains high, medium, and low order goods. Places there are really near from each other which encourages people to get a walk or take a bike. Also, in downtown Toronto they are tending to build condos and decrease the number of low residential land-use. You can figure out these things in the pictures provided.
High-density residential land-use
In Toronto they are focusing on condo development, which is important to save up the land and the natural resources used to build many houses.
Medium-density residential land-use
These are townhouses which are not having a lot of space between them. They can fit 30-100 homes per hectare.
Transportaion land-use
An important route is taking place in almost all of the streets which is the bike routes.
Low-order goods commercial land-use
This type of goods is available in almost all of the places.
Medium-order goods commercial land-use
This type of shops is not provided in all of the places ,but it's available in somehow most of the places. So this kind of shops requires from customers to go for it.
High-order commercial land-use
This shop is found only in certain areas so people need to go to downtown Toronto to see a place like this.
Institutional land-use
This is a hospital which is owned by the government found in downtown Toronto. We need a hospital in a place like this because it is a high-populated area.
Industrial land-use
A factory is required in a place like Toronto to provide the citizens with the supplies they need.
Open space
Places like this,parks and gardens, are necessary to have them, because it's a place to get a clean breathe of air and to give yourself a time of entertainment.
Land-use conflict
This is an industrial and residential land-use conflict. In this picture we can observe the smoke and the harmful gases going out from a factory to the main city and where people are living.
Population density
Toronto has a very high population ,and this picture best describes how crowded the city is.
3 Examples of Sustainability
Outdoor seating
This is an effective way to decrease the use of energy because it's outdoors and so no need for the lights, which is environmentally helpful.
Bikes
You can easily take a bike and ride it as they are available in all of the places through downtown Toronto. Which is environmentally friendly because, it decreases the amount of waste going to the atmosphere.
Recycling Bins
These bins are found all across Toronto, which helps in recycling things instead of
Urban vs Suburb
In an urban city people usually walk or ride a bike, also the places are near to each other. They are focusing on building condos as well, it has a high density population, and it has a lot of traffic.
Unlike the suburb where people are depending on the car as places are far from each other. They are building mostly townhouses and houses, it's not a very high populated area, and it doesn't have a lot of traffic as well.
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