Assessment Prep: Urban Sprawl

1. Identify specific examples of Urban Sprawl and Consolidation in Sydney and describe how these are examples of urban sprawl (include photos). (1 of each - consolidation and sprawl)


Example of urban consolidation is in Pymble near the Bobbin head rd 4, this apartment is in constructing right now, they are building high level house to use the other space efficiently. This is urban consolidation because high density of people live in this small area but high floor levels apartment.


Example of urban sprawl is in Penrith in Western Australia. the picture below this text proves that these area is urban sprawl because there are no high level houses and its all low level houses and the area is large and takes lots of space to build low density houses.


2. In one of these examples you need to identify and list all of the INVOLVED PARTIES - (NGOs, governments, individuals, businesses or groups)


In the example of urban sprawl, the NSW government, Housing NSW, housing companies and Ku-ring-gai council.


3. Describe how all of these parties (at least two) are involved in this example of Urban Sprawl. Talk about what their interest is in this development/area of development. (At least two paragraphs for each group.)


the NSW government wanted most suburbs to build low density houses. However,by the time increasing, the number of issues were keep increasing as well. So, the Ku-ring-gai council got the permission from the government that the some suburbs can build high density houses like apartments to not waste the area and remove the environmental areas as well. After this, several housing companies were interested that they could build apartments and they started to remove the houses and build apartments.


4. What are the possible responses to the issue? Or, if there has been a response already, what is has been the response to this issue? (at least two responses)


There were many issues and problems to development of having too much low density houses. Quite lots of people felt uncomfortable about this because the area was keep expanding and that means, they have to remove the forest and environments to build houses. The council had responded to this issues, they said they will build high density houses which is apartment to not waste the area and not to destroy the environmental areas.


5. Evaluate the effectiveness of one of the possible responses to this instance of Urban Sprawl.


For my personal opinion, i think building the high density houses like apartments are very effective way to improve the environments and not waste the areas. The bad point is that it takes longer than houses to build. Normally, it takes 2 or 3years to build the apartments because it has high floors.