Urban Land Use

Identifying Your Urban Jungle

Residential Land Uses

Houses:

Residential Land Uses

Townhouses:

Residential Land Use

Houses:

Residential Land Use

Apartments:

Commercial Land Uses

Big Box Stores:

Commercial Land Uses

Big Box Stores:

Commercial Land Uses

Banks:

Commercial Land Uses

Strip Mall:

Transportation Land Uses

Roads:

Transportation Land Uses

Roads:

Transportation Land Uses

Rail:

Industrial Land Uses

Factories:

Industrial Land Uses

Factories:

Open Space/Parkland Land Uses Parks:

Open Space/Parkland Land Uses Parks:

Open Space/Parkland Land Uses Green Space:

Institutional/Public Building Land Uses

Libraries:

Institutional/Public Building Land Uses

Schools:

Institutional/Public Building Land Uses

Schools:

Institutional/Public Building Land Uses

City Hall:

Review…

What are the 6 Land Uses in Urban Cities??? Residential Commercial Industrial Institutional/Public Buildings Transportation And……….. Parkland and Open Space

How do we map Land Use?

1. Using satellite imagery to classify whether the land is residential, commercial, industrial, etc.

2. Ground level survey/field survey to classify land use

3. Using GIS (Points, Lines, and Polygons)

Your task…

Individually you are going to analyze a satellite image of Oakville and produce a land use map based on what you observe from the image

Your end product will look similar to this: