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Current Daily Urban system
To conclude the inventory into an individual scale, In the daily urban system is a small representation of the lifestyle of a normal residents in Okotoks. As in figure 12. It gives an example for a teenager and a family with a young child their daily urban system.
Family
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An Okotokian family with two children live in the south of Okotoks. Their high income allows them to live in a big four-bedroom single detached house with their cars in a garage, since they have no other choice all the houses are similar. As set most neighbourhoods are homogeneous and the clusters of services and facilities are often one level large buildings. However they don’t know who lives next door. Probably the wife is not working in the town facing a high unemployment. In the morning, He/she usually works in Calgary So they drive by vehicles to their workplace to arrive there. However, before they get to the office, they take their children to school, which is quite far from where they live. In the afternoon they return home after they have picked up their children. In the evening, they have no time for more driving to a restaurant or a cafe by car again. As a family they spend almost their day driving their car to and from different locations, which affect their way of living and the time they might spend outside to enjoy leisure pursuit which are even further to their home location. For leisure activities, there is a park, but it lacks in attractiveness and activities.
Student (Teenager)
In the figure 12, it is shown that a student who lives downtown of okotoks might take a car or a taxi to the school in the morning since the school is not in close proximity. In the afternoon, the restaurants and cafés are located in a distant location so there will be greater distance travelled by vehicles. There is no place that they can meet up with friends without spending too much money. Thus, most riders spent their night at home after riding a long distance. The facilities are scattered all over okotoks, thereby making them only accessible by car or by the people who live nearby.
Figure 12: Current DUS
