Urban Sprawl

1. Urban Sprawl: Northern Beaches Urban Sprawl:

The Northern Beaches are an example of Urban Sprawl as they are not a heavily built up and extend out from the centre of city to reaches that are up to 20km from the city centre. They rely on mainly buses and large roads for infrastructure and there are many shopping centres built around the beaches in the area.

Urban Consolidation: Waitara

The Suburb of Waitara, in Northern Sydney is an example of Urban Consolidation. Almost the entire suburb is made up of high density, high rise apartment buildings. The area relies on the infrastructure of CityRail's North Shore train line and the large Pacific Highway. It is also located near the main northern exit of Sydney, the Sydney to Newcastle Freeway, commonly known as the F3.

2. In Urban Consolidation, It is mainly the State Government of New South Wales that is involved in the development of high density accommodation in areas such as Waitara, however it is also the responsibility of the developers such as Meriton to build and market the buildings. It is obviously the responsibility of the State Government to develop appropriate infrastructure for the Urban Consolidation. There are also opposition groups involved that are opposed to the developments of Urban Consolidation in the Sydney Metropolitan area, many of these are citizen formed groups.

3. The New South Wales State Government is involved heavily in the process of Urban Sprawl. The Government will usually dictate which areas are to be developed as areas of urban sprawl. Examples of these are the North West Growth Sector and the South West Growth West Sector in Sydney. These are large areas that are designated to be developed into Urban Sprawl suburbs with extra infrastructure to be built for them, such as roads, bus routes and possibly new train lines.

The Development companies such as Meriton have a very large task in the process of Urban Sprawl as they are the people that design and construct the houses and villages in the Urban Sprawl areas such as the North West Growth Sector. They can also be responsible to design places such as public parks and plazas, and shopping centres.

4. There can be positive or negative responses to the issue, the obvious negative response is that there is a drastic population increase as a result of the Urban Sprawl and Urban Consolidation and this can cause a very big strain on resources in the area and the infrastructure that might not be able to cope very well with the sudden massive increase in population in the area.