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Urban Settlement Plans (Lessons 3-5) : Flashcards

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1
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What is “urban settlement patterns”?

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Where the urban areas are within a country and why, does it form a pattern?

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What are 4 factors that can influence urban settlement patterns?

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1) Climate and Topography
2) Transportation networks
3) Land use
4) Perceptions of Liveability

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3
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What percentage of Australians live in Urban Areas?

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89%.

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True or False 1% of Australia’s land contains 84% of its population?

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True ;).

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5
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What percentage of Americans live in urban areas?

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70%.

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Why did urban areas grow so big in Australia and the USA?

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Why do people choose to live in urban areas instead of rural area?

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1) Climate and topography
2) Transportation networks
3) Perceptions of liveabiltiy
4) Access to infrastructure and Services
4) Education
5) Location, (e.g. closer to jobs)

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What are the 2 subcategories of “Climate”?

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Temperature & Rainfall

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Why is there a less dense population in the Middle of Australia?

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  • Not connected to cities and coast
  • Less infrastructure
  • Less Jobs
  • Not as many schools
  • Unbearably hot weather
  • Lack of rainfall (ultimately leading to lack of food and water)
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How does the topography of a place effect the population density of the place?

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Living in Mountain ranges is harder due to the difficulty of building infrastructure like roads and buildings, it can be done but is much more expensive and therefore not as efficient as building on flat land.

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Why do many Australians live on the coast?

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  • Climate is less extreme
  • Trade and access to goods
  • Lifestyle/Aesthetics
  • Access to water
  • Location of Cities
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What is the difference between the climate of the US and Australia?

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Australia’s is far more extreme with varying temperatures mostly being incredibly hot and barren the further inland you go, there is also frequent drought and lack of rainfall in these hot dry areas. The US’ climate is a lot better at supporting life with milder temperatures and flat land to build cities upon.

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What is the difference between the east side of the US and the west?

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The east side of the US is much flatter whilst the west is home to very large collections of mountain ranges and henceforth not as many cities, the east coast however has A LOT of cities/urban areas.

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Why were Australia’s main cities all built on the coast?

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  • Importing
  • Exporting
  • Immigration
  • Travelling to other countries (prime location)
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Give 3 reasons that transportation systems in Australia grew?

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1) Transport ourselves between major cities.
2) Get food from farming areas to the cities and for export.
3) Get goods to the farming areas to keep them going.

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The US has a large road system plus a what? What is this called?

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The Mississippi River.

17
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What purpose did the Mississippi river serve?

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Transporting goods through the centre of the country.

18
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Which country is more well connected Australia or the US

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US.

19
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What services should a place to have to have a positive perceived liveability?

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  • Hospitals
  • Medical centres and specialists
  • Public Transport
  • Schools
  • Shopping centres
  • Roads
  • Postal services
  • Child care
  • Arts and recreation facilities.
20
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When did the US “have” Europeans from?

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1492.

21
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When did Australia “have” Europeans from?

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1788.

22
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What are the 3 words you can use to fill in the blank:
Urban concentrations have an effect on the __________ of places:

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1) Characteristics
2) Liveability
3) Sustainability

23
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Describe Sydney’s problem of Urban sprawl?

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  • The suburbs keep stretching outwards.
24
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What are some problems arising from the Urban sprawl?

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  • Traffic congestion due to the roads not catering to the amount of drivers
  • Extreme housing prices
  • Pollution issues
  • Destruction of quality land for farming.
25
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What are positive characteristics of Sydney created by the Urban Settlement Plans?

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  • More than 250 languages are spoken in Sydney
  • Higher construction of apartment buildings leading to more housing arrangements for more people.
26
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What is the Chinese government doing in order to ensure the greater urbanisation of their population?

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  • Creation of laws
  • Lowering taxes in these areas so that companies will move into these cities.
  • Forcibly moving populations of people out of their homes in order to allow for the construction of more cities.
27
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How do you determine the liveability of a place?

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  • Quality of infrastructure
  • Availability of medical services
  • Recreational Activities
  • Availability of schools
  • Access to a range of shops and consumer services.
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How would urban concentrations effect the liveability of a place?

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  • Simply more opportunities and access.
29
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How has China’s liveability been affected through the urbanization of the country?

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The liveability has increased. The life expectancy has also been elongated. However urban areas have become more liveable despite the growing gap between the cities and rural areas, with the liveability and standards remaining untouched.

30
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Sustainability =

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Whether we can sustain the way we are living for a long time.

31
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What are some unsustainable things Australia must claim due to the urban settlement planning? Why?

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  • The highest per person greenhouse gas emissions
    Crappy public transport and massive traffic jams inner city.
  • Second highest per person waste production
    People in urban areas produce more waste than in rural.
32
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What is Singapore’s population density?

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8000 people per square km.

33
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What percentage of people in Singapore live in urban areas?

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100%

34
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What are some sustainable measures Singapore is enforcing within their city?

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  • 24% of buildings are green, using less energy, solar panelling etc.
  • Focus on building zero energy buildings.
  • People have to bid, like an auction, to own a car
  • Excellent public transport system that gets you everywhere.

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