AUSTRALIAINTERNAL migrationLAND settlement patternsREGIONAL developmentPOPULATION dynamicsGOVERNMENT policyEMIGRATION & immigrationSUBURBANIZATIONCITIES & townsThe distribution of population between metropolitan regions and their rural counterparts is a topic of interest, due to the growth pressures in large ...
Urban sprawl is a natural phenomenon due to population increases and decentralisation of urban areas. Specifically, in Australia, there is a desire for the “Australian Dream” – characterised by post-war homes with a larger block, better amenities and a ‘white picket fence’ as an expression ...
This post investigates 46 existing clusters in Australia’s six largest cities. This is a longer post (there is a summary at the end), but I hope you find at least half as interesting as I do. What’s a dense suburban employment cluster? That’s always going to be an arbitrary matter...
In Australia, World War II had demonstrated the vulnerability of the poorly populated northern part of the country. The war was followed by a drive to develop those vulnerable parts to encourage their settlement. As there was an almost complete absence of mapping, the Commonwealth Scientific and ...
person–environment fit; urban neighbourhoods; ageing in place; coping strategies; central and eastern Europe 1. Introduction Population ageing is one of the most pronounced demographic processes in modern society. Yet, the world is simultaneously witnessing the rapid growth of cities and urban ...
In Australia the past 50 years has seen a movement to rural and coastal areas with housing that is positioned within forested areas, located a few hours from big cities, called ‘sea change’ or ‘tree change’ settlement37. Peri-urban development is now 15% of Australian settlements and rur...
Torrens River, Adelaide, South AustraliaParklands along the Torrens River, Adelaide, South Australia. Althoughurbanizationhas traditionally been associated with a higherquality of lifefor urban as opposed to rural dwellers, a number of ills such as concentrated urbanpoverty, environmental inequity, and ...
personal traits and living circumstances—play a larger role in the migration patterns of RUMs in China. China has been using the Hukou (household registration) system since 1958 in order to regulate social protection, maintain social stability, and regulate internal migration between rural and urban...
Settlement patterns Demographic trends From a total population of 5.6 million in 1891, London grew by 3 million to its peak magnitude at the outbreak of World War II. For several decades after the war, its population shrank by approximately 2 million, to some 6.6 million in the mid-1980s....
and shape that population settlements naturally have. Instead, they consist of pixelated areas, each pixel treated on its own, separated from adjacent cells17. This can have two implications; 1) different modelling results present themselves in the same settlement even in cases where these ...