Urban Sprawl and the Oak Ridges Moraine

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This third year environmental planning course assignment discusses urban sprawl in the greater Toronto area. The paper examines urban sprawl, the Oak Ridges moraine, planning problems and planning solutions. The paper further examines the implementation of the greenbelt plan.

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"There are many environmental, social and political issues that can be solved through effective planning. However, some environmental, urban and political problems have been caused by a lack of planning. One of the most potentially disastrous environmental, urban and political issues is urban sprawl. According to William Norton in Human Geography, The term urban sprawl is often used to describe the deconcentration that involves low-density expansion of urban land uses into surrounding rural areas (Norton 418). This rather clinical definition is misleading because it treats urban sprawl as if it is not problematic."

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