Discuss the Changing Urban Dynamics of One City Selected from the Developed World.
Sydney, centrally located on the eastern coast, is Australia’s largest and most influential city. Its multicultural nature, advanced infrastructure, state of the art technologies, scale of foreign investment and architectural ingenuity not only make for a highly desired international tourist destination but are all compelling evidence to suggest that Sydney is in fact an established city of the developed world. As in any developed city, there are a myriad of urban dynamics of change at work that have, and will continue to evolve the morphology of the Australian metropolis.
The Greater Sydney Metropolitan Region (GSMR) is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. Its wide-ranging spatial articulation extends from Wollongong in the south to beyond Newcastle in the North and to the Blue Mountains in the West. Sydney is an important world city and is aptly located to serve as a base in the Asia-Pacific region. It is Australia’s major financial, corporate and information centre and is also an important centre of manufacturing. In recent years Sydney has attracted many large transnational corporations (TNC’s), some of which include: American Express, Bankers Trust and Bell Laboratories. As like most large cities, Sydney suffers from problems such as pollution, traffic congestion and high prices for residential housing. In the year 2000, the GSMR had a total population of 4.75 million. The population growth rate is steady at around 1 percent growth per year.
As Cities in the main are dynamic by nature, with changes in things such as transport, government intervention and population size and distribution, it is becoming increasingly important to consider cities, especially those of the developed world, in terms of their complex multiple-nuclei structures and multi-functional/multi-faceted natures. Australia’s Sydney is an eminent example of this.
Geographically, the city of Sydney has changed significantly throughout the past 200 years. The
The Greater Sydney Metropolitan Region (GSMR) is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. Its wide-ranging spatial articulation extends from Wollongong in the south to beyond Newcastle in the North and to the Blue Mountains in the West. Sydney is an important world city and is aptly located to serve as a base in the Asia-Pacific region. It is Australia’s major financial, corporate and information centre and is also an important centre of manufacturing. In recent years Sydney has attracted many large transnational corporations (TNC’s), some of which include: American Express, Bankers Trust and Bell Laboratories. As like most large cities, Sydney suffers from problems such as pollution, traffic congestion and high prices for residential housing. In the year 2000, the GSMR had a total population of 4.75 million. The population growth rate is steady at around 1 percent growth per year.
As Cities in the main are dynamic by nature, with changes in things such as transport, government intervention and population size and distribution, it is becoming increasingly important to consider cities, especially those of the developed world, in terms of their complex multiple-nuclei structures and multi-functional/multi-faceted natures. Australia’s Sydney is an eminent example of this.
Geographically, the city of Sydney has changed significantly throughout the past 200 years. The