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POPULATION DENSITY AND MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT ‐ THE VANCOUVER. B.C., METROPOLITAN AREA
Author(s) -
Crerar A. D.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1957.tb01805.x
Subject(s) - urban sprawl , metropolitan area , acre , geography , population , population density , sanitary sewer , population growth , agricultural economics , socioeconomics , urban planning , demography , environmental engineering , environmental science , economics , agricultural science , archaeology , engineering , civil engineering , sociology
Summary Population growth in the Greater Vancouver metropolitan area has been rapid. The greatest growth in recent years has occurred not in the central city Vancouver, but in the suburban municipalities of the fringe. Eightly per cent of the new population growth in one of the typical fringe municipalities has occurred on lots of urban size (less than one acre). Forty‐four per cent of the new urban lots were located in compact groupings (gross population density over 3.5 people per acre). The remaining urban lots, 56 per cent of the total, were widely scattered to form sprawl conditions (density between 0.3 and 3.5 people per acre). Sprawl is considered to be a problem of greater magnitude in coastal British Columbia than elsewhere in Canada. It makes the supply of certain municipal services such as sanitary sewers virtually impossible. Sprawl areas do not provide sufficient tax return to pay for the municipal services they receive at present.