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: