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Urban Systems Analysis 2017-2019

This document outlines an urban option topic tracker table that covers 4 topics: 1) the variety of urban environments, 2) changing urban systems, 3) urban environmental and social stresses, and 4) building sustainable urban systems for the future. Each topic includes sub-sections on geographic enquiry, geographic knowledge and understanding, and completed competencies. The table tracks progress on geographic concepts related to urban areas, including characteristics of urban places, factors affecting urban development, processes of urbanization, and strategies for managing urban sustainability issues over time.

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Urban Systems Analysis 2017-2019

This document outlines an urban option topic tracker table that covers 4 topics: 1) the variety of urban environments, 2) changing urban systems, 3) urban environmental and social stresses, and 4) building sustainable urban systems for the future. Each topic includes sub-sections on geographic enquiry, geographic knowledge and understanding, and completed competencies. The table tracks progress on geographic concepts related to urban areas, including characteristics of urban places, factors affecting urban development, processes of urbanization, and strategies for managing urban sustainability issues over time.

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URBAN OPTION TOPIC TRACKER TABLE 2017 - 2019

Geographic enquiry Geographic knowledge and understanding Competed

1. The variety of urban environments

The characteristics and Characteristics or urban places, inc site, function, land
distribution of urban use, hierarchy or settlements (inc megacities) and growth
PLACES populations and processes (planned or spontaneous)
economic activities
Factors affecting the pattern of urban economic activities
(retail, commercial, industrial), inc physical factors, land
values, proximity to a CBD and planning

Factors affecting the pattern of residential areas within


urban areas inc physical factors, land values, ethnicity
and planning

The incidence of poverty, deprivation and informal activity


(housing and industry) in urban areas at varying stages of
development

2. Changing urban systems

How economic and Urbanisation, natural increase and centripetal population


demographic PROCESSES movements inc rural-urban migration in industrializing
bring change over time to cities and inner city gentrification in post industrial cities
urban systems
Centrifugal population movements inc suburbanization
and counter urbanization

Urban system growth including infrastructure


improvements over time such as transport, sanitation,
water, waste disposal and telecommunications

Case study of infrastructure growth over time in one city

The causes of urban deindustrialisation and its economic,


social and demographic consequences

3. Urban environmental and social stresses

The varying POWER of Urban microclimate modification and management, inc


different stakeholders in urban heat island effect and air pollution patterns and
relation to the experience management
of, and management of,
urban stresses Case study of air pollution in one city and it’s varying
impact on people
Traffic congestion patterns, trends and impacts

Case study of one affected city and the management


response

Contested land use changes, inc slum clearances, urban


redevelopment and the depletion of green spaces

Detailed contrasting examples of two affected


neighbourhoods and their populations

Managing the impacts of urban social deprivation inc the


cycle of deprivation and geographic patterns of crime

4. Building sustainable urban systems for the future

Future POSSIBILITIES for Urban growth projections for 2050 inc regional / X
sustainable management of continental patterns and trends of rural - urban migration
urban systems and changing urban population sizes and structures

Resilient city design, including strategies to manage X


escalating climatic and geopolitical risks to urban areas

Two detailed examples to illustrate possible strategies X

Eco city design, inc strategies to manage the urban X


ecological footprint

Two detailed examples to illustrate possible X


environmental strategies

Smart city design and the use of new technology to run X


city services and systems including purpose built
settlements and retrofitting technology to older
settlements

Synthesis (Sy), Evaluation (Ev) and Skills (Sk) opportunities

These suggestions can be ● How urban changes over time are affected by a
integrated into the study of place’s economic and demographic spatial
the above. interactions with other places (Sy)
● Contrasts in the scale of changes and challenges
facing different urban areas (Sy / Ev)
● Varying perspectives of different social groups on
the costs and benefits of different urban strategies
and priorities for action (ev)
● How urban patterns, movements, flows and trends
/ temporal changes can best be represented
graphically (Sk)

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