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Details for GEO303 Urban Environment

Explore the foundations of Geography through the study of Urban Environments. This unit delves into the dynamics of urbanisation, addressing the challenges and opportunities of rapidly growing cities. Investigate urban characteristics, change processes, environmental impacts, and sustainability measures. Students will engage in critical thinking skills, apply problem-solving skills and reflection to asses urban complexities.

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: GEO303
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

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Prerequisite

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Assess how adequate statistical data is in describing and explaining significant contemporary global changes in urban patterns over recent decades.
  2. Compare and contrast global urban trends with the trends of urban growth over recent decades in Australia and two other countries with contrasting levels of economic development.
  3. Rank the significant urban processes in a local urban area, and justify the ranking with reference to primary and/or secondary data.
  4. Summarise the challenges for residents that arise from urban processes and explain how urban challenges can be ameliorated.
  5. Compare and contrast the policies and practices of urban sustainability (including spatial justice and traffic congestion) in a local urban environment with overseas cities displaying exemplary urban sustainability.
  6. Formulate a proposal that succinctly explains realistic ways of improving urban sustainability (including spatial justice and traffic congestion) to local administrators based on the gap between current local practice and overseas cities displaying exemplary urban sustainability.

Subject Content

  • Urban places
  • Urban morphology
  • Changing urban environments
  • Growth of urban systems
  • Environmental and social stresses in urban environments
  • Building sustainable urban environments for the future

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Face to Face (onsite)
  • Distance/E-learning (online)

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

  • Minor Project (30%)
  • Minor Essay (30%)
  • Major Project (40%)

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