Assessment Prep: Urban Sprawl

1. Identify specific examples of Urban Sprawl and Consolidation in Sydney and describe how these are examples of urban sprawl (include photos). (1 of each - consolidation and sprawl)


Ku-ring-gai


In Ku-ring-gai Barry O'Farrel is planning to bring in 10,000 more living spaces in the form of high rises by 2031. The development of high rises while still relatively close to the city makes this an example of urban consolidation. 

This is a campaign poster of "not so high in Ku-ring-gai" where they want Barry O'Farrel to stop at 6,000 new living spaces instead of the full 10,000.  

This will be bad for the area as it will cost a lot of money as well as bringing in a much higher population density. It will also cut into the resources available to the area.

Green Square:

Year 10: Urban Sprawl or Consolidation: Jordan Springs

1. Is this an example of urban consolidation or urban sprawl? Why?
Jordan Springs is an example of urban sprawl because the definition of urban sprawl is: "a characteristic of Australian cities where population growth has caused expansion outwards in size with the creation of new low-density suburbs" which is what Jordan Springs is compared to urban consolidation which is: "the redevelopment of parts of a city to achieve a higher population density, characterised by high-rise apartment complexes and villa developments" which is not what Jordan Springs is.


2. Do you think that this development is positive or negative for the surrounding community? For Sydney? For Australia?

I think it is positive as it provides more room for people to live and keeps people from overcrowding other areas. It is also nature friendly which is good for the environment. As well as being nature friendly it also has good road designs and public transport access to be pedestrian friendly and promote exercise. It is not beneficial to Sydney because it forces Sydney to give some of its recourses as well as it could draw people away from Sydney to go live there.

Year 10 Thur 10/3: Urban Planning and Development

1. A characteristic of Australian cities where population growth has caused expansion outwards in size with the creation of new low-density suburbs.

2.  The redevelopment of parts of a city to achieve a higher population density, characterised by high-rise apartment complexes and villa developments

3. An urbanised country is when a high amount of the population live in urban centres. While the definition of an urban centre varies from country to country, it is generally agreed that they have the following features:
4.
1 Sydney, NSW population: 3 502 000, land area (square kilometres): 1 687, Population density per square kilometre, 2 076

2 Melbourne, VIC population: 3 162 000, land area (square kilometres): 2 080, Population density per square kilometre: 1 520

3 Brisbane, QLD population: 1 508 000, land area (square kilometres): 1 603, Population density per square kilometre: 941

5. The appealing characteristics of living on the coast have influenced the location of Australia's capital cities. All but one are located on the coast where most people prefer to live.

6.

• a high population density

• a high proportion of the population working in

manufacturing and/or professional or service-related

industries

• they are centres of business, trade, tourism,

entertainment and finance.

7. Australian cities have a very high population density compared to most other cities in the world as almost all of the population live in cities and not many live in the country towns and central Australia.

8.  One of the changing aspects of Australian cities is the movement towards higher population densities within the city. In a process known as urban consolidation, land within the existing city’s boundary is developed with high-rise apartment complexes, townhouses and villa developments. The advantage of this style of development is that the infrastructure like public transport, electricity and water supplies are already built for the developments—it means they are used more intensively. All Australian cities face the need to control urban sprawl and so are moving in the direction of urban consolidation.

9.  Urban planners have had to be innovative in their design of apartments and new estates to manage the impacts of population growth in cities. 

10. a. Melbourne

b. The amount of people per square kilometer

c. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Wollongong, Perth, Gold Coast, Newcastle, Canberra, Brisbane, Gosford

d. 8/10

11. The residents will have complaints about the buildings blocking their view, their sunlight as well as lots of noise and inconvenient travel routes. The structures will make the community become densly populated therefore having longer lines at shops etc.

12. In houses you can have your own garden and private pool/spa as well as easy access in and out of your house. But apartments are usually seen as safer because they have better security systems to stop people entering the building.

Year 10: Urban Renew and Decay

Define the following terms and include an example of each and explain how your example relates the word:

1. Aesthetics - The looks and features of a particular object.

These buildings have been designed in an Aesthetically pleasing way to give the city character and beauty.

2. Safety - Any defensive location or structure in a city, eg a seawall, a castle, city built on a hill to protect from floods

This seawall is protecting the city from very strong storm waves. These waves are potentially devastating.

3.  Slums - a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security.

This Aftrican slum shows very poor housing conditions, no paved streets and no room for the environment to develop.

4. Decay - Decay is the way a specific building or city lasts over time. Whether the building is still standing or whether it still looks appealing etc.

This building has weathered and been vandalised and therefore has decayed.

5. Reconstruction and Renewal - Urban renewal is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use.

Melbourne Docklands urban renewal project, a transformation of a large disused docks into a new residential and commercial precinct for 25,000 people

6. Transport - Transportation planning is a field involved with the evaluation, assessment, design and siting of transportation facilities (generally streets, highways, footpaths, bike lanes and public transport lines).

This map of San Fransisco's road plan in 1948 shows that the city was designed with ease of transportation in mind.

7. Suburbanization - a term used to describe the growth of areas on the fringes of major cities

This aerial shot shows a town which has become extremely crowded with little regard for the environment and is an example of suburbanization.

8. Environmental Factors -  the process of facilitating decision making to carry out development with due consideration given to the natural environmental, social, political, economic and governance factors and provides a holistic frame work to achieve sustainable outcomes.

This image shows a  city which has been designed around the environment as you will notice plenty of trees and vegetation as well as plants growing on top of the buildings.

9. Light and Sound - The 'pollution' of light and sound throughout a city or urban area. This can also be the lack of light e.g. a building blocks out the sun making a part of the city in shade for 90% of the day.

This picture shows the light that a city emits when the sky should be pitch black and the stars showing. Instead the sky is an eerie orange colour which is unappealing to most people.