Suburban Land Use - Chase Rankin

   

        In Suburban areas, towns like to keep things a little more spread out and low density when creating the maps for zoning. They like to separate residential areas from commercial areas, that way the residential area is not too far from people who live there's jobs. In the article that I am looking at by the TN department of health, they say that the reason suburbs grew is because cars became the more dominant way to get to work. In this sense, people can live in the residential area of the suburbs and drive tot their jobs in commercial areas. In the article, they also talk about a method of land use called a sprawl. A spray is a pattern of development that idealizes low quality growth and expansion. In a sprawl method, the area is not going to have a big boom in production or anything such as a city would. instead, the sprawl method would have a town that is simply going to continue growing at a steady pace. The sprawl pattern of development includes four factors that include low development density, seperated homes, shops and workplaces, lack of activity centers and downtowns, and poor street connectivity. This is the basis of how some suburbs and small towns tend to do their land use planning. my home town is actually very similar to this.

Suburb: https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/environmental/healthy-places/healthy-places/land-use/lu/suburban-areas.html