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Heading: Australia's Urban Future
Heading: Australia's Urban Future
Learning Intention: We will be learning about the management and planning for Australia's urban future.
Success Criteria: I will be successful when I am able to:
outline the projected population growth of Australia
discuss the impacts of population growth on Australia's urban centres
examine the social, economic and environmental strategies to maintain sustainability in Australia's cities.
Australia's Urban Future
Australia's Urban Future
Australia’s population is continuing to become more urban and the population structure is ageing. As Australia’s population grows, this will have implications for how Australian cities will continue to grow and how sustainable they will be. Issues of sustainability include access to water, affordability of food and the distance food travels to get on the plate, loss of habitat areas and species diversity and greenhouse gas emissions. Planning for Australia’s urban future, involves strategically planning for equitable and affordable access to services and infrastructure. It is imperative that we develop resilient communities that can cope with and manage changes in the future.
1) Conduct your own research on population growth in Sydney. Create a summary including the location of the highest growth areas and the impact of migration on growth in Sydney.
Use data tables, column graphs and/or line graphs to present your information.
TASK 1: Australia's Population: Is bigger better? (DEBATE)
TASK 2: Australia's Changing Urban Dynamics
1) Copy the notes of Urban Dynamics into your books (Slides)
2) Complete the table by researching and investigating the various Urban Dynamics that occur in Sydney. This can be completed online or in your books as well.
3) Use the app "mymaps" (google) and you are to visualise and create your own personal map of examples of these Urban dynamics operating in the Sydney Metropolitan area. You can view a sample here.
Urban Dynamics Introduction.pptx
TASK 3: Growing Up Poor Claymore Case Study (ABC)
According to the latest figures, 2.2 million Australian live below the poverty line. More than 600,000 children under 15 live in households where no-one has a job. So what do we draw from that? I guess, that in one of the wealthiest countries on the face of the earth, with an economy that's largely flying high and unemployment quite low, we still can't crack Australia's significant cycle of poverty.
Over decades we've heard a great deal from politicians and policy makers about what needs to be done. Bob Hawke once actually promised to end child poverty. The people we've heard from least are the innocent voices of poverty, the children.
And for tonight Four Corners has chosen to hear those voices, in words that will wrench your heart, from an outer Sydney community called Claymore that was established 30 years ago. Children who have had no say in the misfortune that is shaping their destinies. They echo a picture that can be found in similar neighbourhoods across Australia.
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