Year 10: Urban Sprawl or Consolidation: Jordan Springs

1. Jordan Springs is a very good example of Urban Sprawl because it demonstrates a perfect example of spread out low density housing which is extending away from a city centre which in this case it is on the very outskirts of Sydney however the closest CBD to Jordan Springs is Penrith, which is located about 7km away.

2. I think the development is very positive for the surrounding area of Penrith, it is providing housing for over 6000 people, it is also creating over 5000 new jobs, a new shopping centre, infrastructure, two lakes, public parks and sports oval. It is not really positive for Sydney however, because not many people who work in Sydney will take an interest because it is over 50km from the Sydney CBD, and the journey will take 1 hour in no traffic, but with the consistently bad Sydney Traffic the journey from Jordan Springs to central Sydney could take up to 2 Hours.

Year 10: Urban Renew and Decay

Aesthetics: the sense of what people consider beautiful or culturally appropriate, varying from folk group to folk group and individual to individual.

Safety: the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions; "insure the safety of the children"; "the reciprocal of safety is risk. Safety can also be referred to as something that is designed for a certain safety perspective or purpose, such as earthquake-proof buildings and buildings built on high ground to prevent attack.

Slums: A household that lacks any one of the following five elements: access to sufficient amounts of water for family use at an affordable price, without being subject to extreme effort; access to improved sanitation, either in the form of a private toilet or a public toilet shared with a reasonable.

Decay: The process or result of being gradually decomposed; A deterioration of condition; To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality; To rot, to go bad. Urban decay is a process by which a city, or a part of a city, falls into a state of disrepair and neglect. It is characterized by depopulation, economic restructuring, property abandonment, high unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and desolate urban landscapes.

Urban Renewal: Urban Renewal  (similar to urban regeneration in British English) is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use. It is also the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums.

 

Transport: Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one location to another. Transport is performed by modes, such as air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations.

 Suburbanization: In some countries, declining satisfaction with the urban environment is held to blame for continuing migration to smaller towns and rural areas . Successful urban planning supported Regional planning can bring benefits to a much larger hinterland or city region and help to reduce both congestion along transport routes and the wastage of energy implied by excessive commuting.

Environmental Factors: Environmental protection and conservation are of utmost importance to many planning systems across the world. Not only are the specific effects of development to be mitigated, but attempts are made to minimize the overall effect of development on the local and global environment. This is commonly done through the assessment of Sustainable urban infrastructure and microclimate. In Europe this process is known as a Sustainability Appraisal.

Light & Sound: The urban canyon effect is a colloquial, non-scientific term referring to street space bordered by very high buildings. This type of environment may shade the sidewalk level from direct sunlight during most daylight hours. While an oft-decried phenomenon, it is rare except in very dense, hyper-tall urban environments, such as those found in Lower and Midtown Manhattan, Chicago's Loop and Kowloon in Hong Kong.

7.6 The Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project

1. It became necessary to extend the breakwaters because the sand from the adjacent beaches was pouring into the river channel, which was making it extremely unsafe for boats and other watercraft to navigate the river entrance.

2. It would have a positive and negative effect. The beaches south of the breakwaters would benefit from the breakwater extending out into the ocean because the sand would build up against it, which would strengthen the sand amount on the beach, but the northern beaches would not benefit at all because of the breakwater. The breakwater would obstruct the sand from reaching the northern beaches and they would have a lot less sand than the southern beaches.

3. The Tweed river became unsafe to shipping because of the sand bars that were forming in the river entrance. This made it unsafe to ships to pass through here because they ran the risk of running aground or piercing their hulls.Longshore Drift is the natural process responsible for this, as the sand was pushing north and forming in the mouth of the river.

4. The dredging of the river was only a shot term solution because mainly the cost. Over the next 25 years it will cost over $50 Million to dredge regularly and the breakwaters should do a good job of keeping the sand out of the river, which will eliminate the need for dredging, or at least decrease the cost of it significantly.

5. The TRESBP Project replaces the natural process of Longshore Drift because it is an obstruction to the natural processes of Longshore Drift. The two breakwaters do not allow the water to travel along the coast, so sand will build up against the southern breakwater and at the northern end of the beach above the northern breakwater.

6. I believe that the Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project was a very good idea and it has been extremely successful, leading to it being one of the most successful coastal management strategies in Australia. I think that excellent planning has gone into the project which has prevented sand building up into the Tweed River Entrance and along with the dredging in the mouth of the river, the process of Longshore Drift has been disrupted in the entrance of the river and this has allowed it to now be safe for marine craft to navigate the entrance and the bar of the river.

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 8. Since 1962, the distance the water has traveled up the beach is the same, however the distance up the beach on the right side has changed significantly.

9. The length of the breakwater was 100m.