The most notable aspect to urban growth is that all urban growth is based on its primary source of transportation.
The primary source of transportation for early civilization communities was walking and animals.
Modern civilization utilizes two primary transportation sources: transit oriented design or automobile centric design. Most of Western Society uses the automobile centric land-use design for its urban growth.
There is often a misnomer in reference to urban growth that misrepresents the term ‘land-use design’ and ‘zoning’ of land-use. In this course, the ‘Land-use’ section explains the distinction between them.
The primary source of transportation for Western society is the automobile. The automobile is wholly unsustainable. This negatively affects urban growth due to the automobile being completely unsustainable.
This course goes into great detail on the importance of building sustainable urban growth. The course also explains how cars negatively affect urban growth and provides recommendations to mediate solutions.
The impact of a car’s ability to become slightly more energy efficient regarding its fuel consumption, has no bearing on the inefficiency of travel time to society in traffic congestion and the reflecting lower local economic productivity.
This coincides with the problematic issues of building a society on an unsustainable foundation. In an automobile-centric society, land consumption is engulfed by the automobile. This includes freeways, surface streets, driveways, shopping mall parking, and business center parking. A staggering 70 percent of all land in the automobile-centric urban land use design (sprawl) is consumed by the automobile. The human component is insignificant, and the automobile is parked 95 percent of its life.
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The Ameliorate Journey Course goes into detail; explaining land-use development and transportation’s effects to urban growth.