HSC Geography/Urban Places

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world cities

the nature, character and spatial distribution of world cities and also D-mac

world cities are centres of national and international significance

the role of world cities as powerful centers of economic and cultural authority

World Cities as Centers of Cultural Authority

the operation of global networks

Spatial Distribution of World Cities

Australia's Network of Large Cities

mega cities

Developing world cities

the challenges of living in mega cities such as housing, traffic infrastructure, water and power supplies, sanitation services, employment, and other social and health issues

Joblessness

Housing Problems

Water and Sewage Problems

Health and Nutrition Problems

Air, Water and Noise Pollution

access to services

urban dynamics

the urban dynamics of change: suburbanization, exurbanization, counterurbanization, decentralization, consolidation, urban decay, urban renewal, urban village, spatial exclusion

Suburbanization

• The American Experience

• The Australian Experience

Exurbanization

• The Australian Context

Counterurbanization and Decentralization

• An end to Counterurbanization?

• The Australian Experience

• An expanding Perimetropolitan Area

• Employment

• Residential Preference

• Welfare Dependency

Urban Consolidation

• The Newman View: A Case for Urban consolidation

• The Troy View: A Case Against Urban Consolidation

• The Sydney Case

• Community Based Opposition to Urban Consolidation

Urban Decay and Renewal

• The American Context

• The Suburbanization of Manufacturing and Warehousing

• Land Economics and Land Use Change

• The Sydney Case

Urban Villages

• Cities within Cities

• The Sydney Case

Spatial Exclusion or Fortified Suburbs

Economic Restructuring and its Urban Impacts

Technological Change and its Urban Impacts

• Transportation

• Telecommunications

New Kinds of Cities, New Urban Geographies

• a case study of the results of the urban dynamics in a large city selected from the developed world including its
  • social structure and spatial patterns of advantage and disadvantage, wealth and poverty, ethnicity
  • changing economic character, nature and location of residential land, commercial and industrial development
  • culture of place as expressed in the architecture, street scape, heritage architecture, noise, colour, street life, energy, vitality and lifestyles
  • growth, development, future trends and ecological sustainability
• a case study showing one of the urban dynamics listed above, operating in a country town or suburb.