Liveable Communities: Land Use and Sustainability in Canada: Unit Review

180 ÷ 400 × 100 = 45%.

60 ÷ 400 × 100 = 15%.

Institutional; industrial; transportation and utilities.

A title, labelled axes with units, and a source (also a sensible scale).

1 500 ÷ 50 = 30 dwellings per hectare.

Height and density generally decrease from tall towers downtown to houses in the suburbs and scattered farm buildings at the fringe.

An area where affordable, healthy food is hard to get nearby. It happens when residential areas are far from grocery stores and transit is poor, often in low-density or single-use areas.

Parks suffer little damage in floods and put few people at risk, while buildings there would endanger lives and property.

They manage watersheds and regulate development near rivers, shorelines, wetlands and hazard lands.

To keep a cold air gap so the building's heat does not thaw the permafrost and make the ground unstable.

0.02 m × 20 000 m² × 0.9 = 360 m³.

Adaptation: rain gardens, updated floodplain maps, cooling centres. Mitigation: compact, transit-oriented communities that reduce driving emissions.

Pavement and buildings absorb heat, traffic and buildings release heat, and there are fewer trees: the urban heat island effect.

(a) Economic, (b) cultural, (c) political, (d) social.

Different land users will pay different amounts at different distances from the centre; businesses outbid others downtown, housing wins the middle, and farms win where land is cheapest at the edge.

The legal obligation of governments to consult Indigenous peoples when decisions may affect their rights.

Planning Act → Provincial Planning Statement → official plan → zoning bylaw.

The Ontario Land Tribunal.

Low credibility: no author, no evidence, exaggerated language. Treat it as an opinion to investigate and check the staff report, studies and credible news.

9 000 ÷ 15 = 600 ha; 9 000 ÷ 45 = 200 ha.

Any two: loss of farmland, habitat loss and fragmentation, more runoff and flooding, more vehicle emissions.

Benefit: uses existing infrastructure and protects farmland. Challenge: shadows, local traffic, strain on old pipes, or rising rents.

A planning line separating land where urban development is allowed from land where it is not.

2005.

Wildlife overpasses or underpasses (eco-passages) with fencing.

They may weight criteria differently according to their priorities.

Production, processing, distribution, retail, consumption (and disposal or recovery).

$25 × 52 = $1 300.

High transport costs (air, sealift), small markets and high operating costs. Strategies: Nutrition North Canada subsidies, supporting country food harvesting, community greenhouses.

84 ÷ 1.2 = 70 cars.

National: Trans-Canada Highway, CN or CPKC rail, VIA Rail. International: Port of Vancouver, St. Lawrence Seaway, Pearson Airport, Ambassador Bridge.

Many people cannot drive, so transit gives them access to jobs, school and services.

1.2 kW × 5 h × 30 = 180 kWh.

Government: phasing out coal or building codes. Corporate: buying renewable power. Individual: installing a heat pump or using off-peak power.

It replaces costly, polluting diesel generation, lowers spill risk and supports community growth; with First Nations ownership it supports self-determination.

2 275 ÷ 6 500 × 100 = 35%; above 30%, so not affordable under the guideline.

Environmental, social and economic.

Government: National Housing Strategy or inclusionary zoning. Community: community land trust, co-op or non-profit housing, Habitat for Humanity.

Community members design together with professionals from the start.

Example: the Squamish Nation's Sen̓áḵw development on its reserve land in Vancouver, with Squamish art and culture and reduced parking; or kihcihkaw askî – Sacred Land in Edmonton.

A Dutch shared "living street" where people come first and cars move at walking speed.

Factual: How many parks are within 1 km of my home? Evaluative: How well do local parks meet the needs of teens, and what change would help most?

Primary: it is original evidence you collected first-hand.

Electrician (installs solar panels, heat pumps, EV chargers), plumber (water systems), HVAC technician (heat pumps), heavy equipment operator (transit, stormwater ponds).