Next Friday 4th September, you will have your second knowledge test for Geography. This test will cover the following topics:
- What is Urban Planning?
- History of Settlements
- Definition of Human Settlements – hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis, megacity, conurbation, megalopolis
- Profile of a city (CBD, inner suburbs, outer suburbs, industrial, residential, commercial, mixed use, green space)
- Urbanisation (as well as the push and pull factors of rural-urban migration)
- Urban Growth Boundary
- Urban Sprawl – Definition and the Positives and Negatives
- Doughnut Effect
- Exurbanisation
- Counterurbanisation
- Shanty Towns
- Low, medium and high density housing
- Urban Land Use Models – Concentric Zone Theory, Hoytes Sector Model, Multiple Nuclei Model, Urban Ecological Structure
- Land Rent Mechanism
- Urban Consolidation (arguments for and against)
- Urban Renewal (and some examples)
- Gentrification
- What is Livability
- Melbourne 2030
- Dubai – Geographical Characteristics and why is it livable?
- What is Transport Planning?
- Melbourne’s Transport Strategies
- Understand and write an extended response on the successes of Curitiba in Transport Planning
