A great deal of planning literature in the last decade has been devoted to growth management and
the concept of land use and transportation interactions. "New" approaches to planning, such as
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and Neo-Traditional Neighbourhood Design, are products
of this evaluation of current development practices. The influence of housing affordability and
accessibility, although intuitively related to the growth management problems of urban sprawl and
automobile dependence, has often been overlooked. The purpose of this research is to bridge
important gaps in our understanding of how residential land use and transportation infrastructure
investments are shaping unsustainable growth and travel patterns in the GVRD, which is the main
problem being addressed. The research objectives related to this problem are the correlation of
observed trends in growth, housing and travel indicators, the determination of the importance of
price and accessibility factors in household location decisions, and the analysis of the role that
land use and transportation decisions have played in influencing housing costs and accessibility.
To provide a context for understanding the scope of the problem and the relationships between
the research results and proposed recommendations, the applicable literature, theory, and policies
in the areas of growth management, land use, transportation and housing are given. Supporting
research results include: a survey of senior stakeholders in the region on land use, transportation
and housing issues; a synthesis of significant socioeconomic, growth, transportation and housing
data; a summary of surveys outlining preferences for residential location and housing type; and
an analysis of Place of Work data crosstabulated against Place of Residence and socioeconomic
variables. The results show a strong dependency between location decisions and the cost and
accessibility of housing, particularly for the critical group of younger households with children.
Policy recommendations, based on the research and covering land use, transportation, housing,
governance and education, are proposed to address the main sustainability problems studied. The
recommendations focus on promoting affordable, higher density communities, with a choice of
transportation modes, as an attractive alternative to lower density, automobile-dependent suburbs. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/7605 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Allison, Mark B. |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 39401609 bytes, application/pdf |
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