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What is the difference between a rural place and a remote place?
Rural describes land use (mainly primary production or conservation); remote describes distance and difficulty of access to services. A place can be rural without being remote.
Name the five ABS Remoteness Areas.
Major Cities, Inner Regional, Outer Regional, Remote and Very Remote.
Absolute versus relative location?
Absolute uses latitude and longitude or a grid reference; relative describes position in relation to other places or features.
Site versus situation?
Site is the physical land a place occupies; situation is its connection to surrounding places, routes and resources.
How do you convert a map distance at 1:250 000 to kilometres?
Multiply the map distance in cm by 250 000 to get cm, then divide by 100 000 (so each cm = 2.5 km).
Give three common challenges for remote towns.
Population decline and ageing; high transport and service costs from distance; dependence on a narrow economic base.
Give three opportunities in rural and remote places.
Natural resources and renewable energy; tourism, including Aboriginal cultural tourism; lifestyle and lower housing costs.
How can FIFO work affect a host town?
It supports mining jobs but workers may live elsewhere, so the town gains less population, spending and volunteer support.
Why do many Coober Pedy residents live in dugouts?
Homes cut into rock keep fairly stable temperatures, reducing exposure and cooling costs in a hot arid climate.
Define liveability.
The quality of life a place offers residents, judged through housing, services, safety, environment, community and employment.
List the stages of a fieldwork cycle.
Focus question, method and sampling, ethical protocols, primary data recording, presentation, analysis, conclusion and recommendations, source acknowledgement.
How should Aboriginal perspectives be handled in a rural case study?
Use community-endorsed sources and culturally appropriate protocols; do not invent or generalise a community’s views.
What population threshold does the ABS use for an urban centre?
1 000 or more people.
Urbanisation versus urban growth?
Urbanisation is a rise in the proportion of people living in urban areas; urban growth is a rise in the number of urban residents.
What is re-urbanisation?
Movement of residents back into inner urban areas, often through apartments and urban renewal.
Why are building heights greatest in the CBD?
Its high accessibility makes land values highest (bid-rent), so developers build upward to use expensive land intensively.
What does the sector model add to the concentric zone model?
Land uses form wedges along transport routes rather than only rings around the CBD.
Give two costs of urban sprawl.
Loss of farmland or habitat; longer travel and car dependency that make public transport and services costly.
What is transit-oriented development?
Higher-density housing and services located within walking distance of public transport stations.
Name four influences on walkability.
Connected streets, footpaths and shade, safe crossings, and a mix of land uses within about 400–800 m.