CHANGING ASPECTS OF URBAN CONTAINMENT IN CANADA: THE NIAGARA CASE IN THE 1980s AND BEYOND

Abstract

Urban containment is a recent practice in Canada and is intended to help protect valuable agricultural and amenity areas from urban encroachment, to reduce servicing costs, and to enhance landscape quality and community identity. Planning in the Niagara Region of Ontario has included emphasis on a strong containment policy. However, the region is threatened today by a number of factors favoring an urban countryside, including the wider counterurbanization issue, the weakness of the agricultural sector, and continuing pressures from the development lobby and local politicians to locate various urban-related activities beyond the built-up area. The weaknesses of regional planning in terms of commitment and ability to redirect growth are discussed, and doubts are expressed as to whether the policy of containment will be exercised effectively.

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