Urban dynamics

Question 1

What are the urban dynamics (9)

Answer 1

Consolidation
Urban renewal
Urban decay
Decentralization
Exurbanisation
Spatial exclusion
urban village
counterurbanisation
Suburbanisation

Question 2

What is suburbanisation

Answer 2

the movement of people, house and employment away from the inner city towards the outer urban areas.
Due to the Australian Dream - desire for quarter acre black, and development and introduction of motor cars

Question 3

Impact of suburbanisation

Answer 3

• Urban sprawl
• congestion
• development of new suburbs
• development of new transport (west and north connex)
• ## social inequality

Question 4

What is urban decay

Answer 4

The deterioration of the urban environment, where urban infrastructure falls into despair and buildings are left empty for long periods of time

Question 5

Explain of Urban decay in Sydney

Answer 5

Economic restructuring from 19th century manufacturing and warehouse retail to advanced banking and technology.
In turn left Pyrmont and Ultimo harbor areas full of factories obsolete. lack of employment also led people to move away from the CBD furthering suburbanization, intensifying the decay.
- Caused the ‘flight to the suburbs’

Question 6

What is urban renewal

Answer 6

redevelopment and renovation of decayed or blighted areas making it relevant to the economic, pollical and social needs of the city and its residents

Question 7

Explain urban renewal in sydney

Answer 7

Pyrmont and Ultimo - renewal under federal government’s “building better cities program’ including the construction of 9 000 dwellings 16 apartment blocks forming Jackson’s landing

Barangaroo

Question 8

What is urban consolidation

Answer 8

policy designed to increase population densities by the construction of medium to high density housing

Question 9

Example of urban consolidation in Sydney

Answer 9

Balmain
construction of 42000 apartments in the form of vertical villages over the next 4 years

Question 10

Advantages of urban consolidation

Answer 10

• reduce reliance on cars since consolidation in CBD
• No landed need to be cleared therefore less natural species impacted
• more efficient use of existing physical and social infrastructure
• reduced costs
• reduces urban sprawl

Question 11

Disadvantages of Urban consolidation

Answer 11

• fear of oversupply of medium to high density housing
• contempery architecture destroying heritage architecture (homologized landscapes)
• increase population density, overwhelming public infrastructure
• increase social polarization

Question 12

What is counter urbanisation

Answer 12

relocation of people and employment from large to smaller urban center’s or rural areas.

Question 13

Example of counter urbanisation

Answer 13

Sea change - movement to rural coastal communities (Byron bay, Coffs harbour) mainly retirees
Tree change - migration to inland rural towns e.g. bathurst and orange - mainly young families

Question 14

What is decentralisation

Answer 14

The movement of activities by government policies or incentives (transport subsides, low interest, cheap land) either out of the CBD or City
Promotes

Question 15

Example of Decentralization

Answer 15

State Emergency Service (SES) state headquarters for NSW has moved to Wollongong

Question 16

What is ex-urbanization

Answer 16

the movement of mainly wealthy city dwellers to high end housing on acreage in rural areas just beyond the outer edge of a city while still maintaining an urban way of life

Question 17

Example of areas of ex-urbanization

Answer 17

Wollondilly Shire

Question 18

What is a urban village

Answer 18

distinctive residential comprising of a clustering of people who share common identification with space and location and or common social identification, forming an identifiable community

Question 19

Example of urban villages

Answer 19

Marrickville = Vietnamese
Leichhart = Italian
Moson = high SES
Oxfort St = LGBTQ+