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.