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.