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Rural and Small Town Canada digest publicise Vol. 3, no 2 (September 2001) Catalogue no. 21-006-XIE URBAN CONSUMPTION OF hoidenish LAND Nancy Hofmann, Statistics Canada Highlights ? Urban uses have consumed 12 thousand square kilometres of knowledge domain since 1971. One-half of thisâ€"equivalent to the size of Prince Edward Is consumeâ€"was dependable farmland (i.e. categorise 1-2-3 land as classified by the Canada Land Inventory). The urban consumption of unsophisticated land is partly due to the maturation urban population and it is partly due to new urban households consuming more land per dwelling. In Ontario, over 18 percent of Class 1 farmland is now macrocosm used for urban plans. ? ? Introduction Many towns that started as agricultural duty centres have become successful and growing cities. Part of their accepted comparative advantage was their proximity to productive and fertile agricultural land. nary(prenominal) their continuing expansion is consuming this high-quality agricultural land. The purpose of this paper is to explore the amount of dependable agricultural land that has been lost to urbanisation. Rural and Small Town Canada Analysis Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 2 Rural and Small Town Canada Analysis Bulletin ISSN 1481-0964 Editor: Ray D. Bollman (ray.

bollman@statcan.ca) Tel.: (613) 951-3747 Fax: (613) 951-3868 Published in collaborationism with The Rural Secretariat, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The Rural and Small Town Canada Analysis Bulletin is an occasional outcome of the Agriculture Division of Statistics Canada. It is forthcoming without charge at http://www.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/ downpub/freepub.cgi. Editorial committee: Denis Chartrand, Ross Vani, Norah Clemenson, Aurelie Mogan and Lucie Bourque. specific thanks to: Martin Beaulieu and Josée Bourdeau. Published by authority of the attend responsible for Statistics Canada. © Minister of Industry, 2001. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval arrangement or... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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