HSC Geography/Urban Places

This page is just an outline/draft 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 the relationships of dominance and dependence between world cities and other urban centers and the changing role of regional centers and the demise of the small town. 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 the responses to these challenges such as self-help projects, community self government, cooperation from NGOs, urban protest and the operations of informal economies 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.