Land Use - Urban Growth Boundaries

The Garden City - Connecting walkable/bikeable nodes with public transit.

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Sprawl

The Dutch reclaimed their land from the sea, so they don't have the luxury of using it inefficiently (e.g., suburban sprawl). Ebenezer Howard's Garden City theory enables multimodality because you can connect concentrated nodes with transit and everything within those nodes is walkable and bikeable. We're going to walk from the center of Delft to the countryside. Note land uses, development density, building height, open space, age, setbacks, and multimodal balance at each of the 6 locations along our walk. Sketch the cross section of the roadway and surrounding buildings at each location. Walk back to the New Church and discuss.

1. Urban High-Density (52.012033, 4.360079)

2. Urban Mid-Density (52.013168, 4.363650)

3. Suburban Older (52.014173, 4.365459)

4. Suburban Modern 1 (52.015171, 4.368856)

5. Suburban Modern 2 (52.014999, 4.371525)

6. Rural (52.015706, 4.374736)