AC9HG8K06 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor causes of urbanisation and its impacts on places and environments, drawing on a study from a country such as the United States of America, and its implications

Elaborations

• • Elaboration explaining the difference between urban growth and urbanisation, and how push-pull forces contribute to internal and international population movements and increase the size of urban areas
• • Elaboration distinguishing between large cities and the rise of megacities at the national scale, including the growth of large capital cities in Australia, Los Angeles as a megacity, or Boston – Washington as an urban corridor in the United States of America
• • Elaboration explaining how changes in economic conditions affect the characteristics of urban places, including population growth in a tourist community in coastal New South Wales such as Byron Bay, population decline in a regional area such as Carnarvon Shire, or old industrial areas evolving into areas of urban renewal, and urban villages in Green Square and Barangaroo, Sydney
• • Elaboration explaining the connections between urbanisation and economic and social opportunities; for example, the location of universities, sporting stadiums or parliaments in capital cities
• • Elaboration explaining how urbanisation can positively or negatively affect the quality of the environment; for example, increases in carbon emissions or increases in water consumption