The planning challenge of the Ottawa area

Abstract

This study of the Ottawa area points out that a rural planning gap exists between city planning on the one hand and conservation on the other. It explores the gap and introduces five general planning territories which need essentially different treatment. The first three of these territories are defined as townscape, farmscape and wildscape and it is recognized that they are all fundamentally stable and desirable. The other two are the rurban fringe and the twilight fringe which are the unstable and undesirable zones of conflict between the scapes. They are characterized by extensive areas of idle land and they need to be planned out of existence. In Part I the general principles of the five territories are explained. The general problems of idle land are discussed and some possible methods of resolving them are suggested. In Part Il the methods of survey and identification of the five territories are described and the location of their boundaries in the Ottawa area is established. Each territory is analyzed in turn and special attention given to the effect upon them of the Ottawa greenbelt. The interaction of the territories is considered to support the case for some form of regional government in order that their differing needs may be considered and satisfied in an integrated way.

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