LAND USES

7 Different Types of Land Use

1. Residential

2. Commercial

3. Industrial

4. Institutional

5. Agriculture

6. Transportation

7. Parks and Green Space

RESIDENTIAL

• Any land with a house on it.

• Housing varies in: 

• -Urban Areas

• -Rural Areas

• -Residential Areas

Housing in Urban Areas

Situated very close to each other

Example: Apartment buildings

Housing in Rural Areas

Situated very far apart from each other

Housing in Residential Areas

Mix of different housing types

E.g. Single, family, townhouses, apartment buildings

COMMERCIAL

• Any land used for businesses

• E.g. grocery stores, clothing stores, home goods, pharmacies and restaurants

• Before there were many little stores, which have now been replaced by big box stores

• —Big box stores – big companies like Walmart; made it hard for tinier stores to succeed

INDUSTRIAL

• Land that is used for manufacturing, processing, or storing raw materials

• Can cause any environmental impacts (e.g. air, soil, and groundwater quality)

• ________ land must be closely monitored an located away from residential areas

INSTITUTIONAL

• Land used for community services

• Schools, hospitals/emergency services, religious buildings/churches, libraries, sports arenas, government offices

• Located all throughout the community so that they can be easily accessible

AGRICULTURE

• Any land used for growing crops and livestock

• E.g. ranches, farms, pastures

• Needs a lot of space for plants to grow

• For urban areas, due to the lack of space, they would have community gardens.

TRANSPORTATION

• Consists of roads and railways, and other physical supports of a transportation system

• Roads and parking lots take up 1/3 or area of cities in North America

PARKS AND GREEN SPACE

• Usually located around cities and towns

• Urban planners include green spaces in cities to move residential areas further away from the noise of industries or traffic