Urban Dynamics - Sydney Case Study Flashcards
What is the is spatial patterns of advantage and disadvantage
Latte Line
- Rich east, poor west
- Higher educated in the east
- Employment
- Income
What causes the patterns of advantage and disadvantage (8)
- Underinvestment and development of public transport in the west has led to the dependency on cars providing a financial burden to the west
- Division of ethnicities
- Distribution of blue and white collar jobs
- well defined class structure based on private property ownership
- class determined by occupation (prestige, financial reward, material lifestyle)
- Access of infrastructure and services
- Distribution of private schools
- Increased housing prices in the CBD
Impact of spatial patterns of advantage and disadvantage
- Creates low degree of social mobility between classes
- ## Perpetuates the cycle of poverty
Stats for Distribution of Education in Sydney
- NAPLAN results show that western students perform below average and Eastern students perform above average
- 85% of Schools in the east performed in the top half of HSC results
- Nearly 90% of Sydney’s 55 highest performing schools is located on the east side
- HSC students in the east are more likely to achieve exam scores above 90
- less than 25% schools below the latte line performed in the top half of the honour role
- Government funding for private schools in Australia has increased nearly 5 times the rate of public school funding over the last 10 years
Why pattern of advantage and disadvantage in employment
Economic restructuring and encouragement of international trade led to increase tertiary services and employment (finance, healthcare, law), in the CBD. Pushing Blue collar and manufacturing jobs to the edges and western Sydney.
Stats for employment in Sydney (advantage and disadvantage)
- average taxable income in the east is $82, 674 vs $54, 608 in the West (33% difference)
- Significantly more unskilled or trade related jobs west of the latte line where as more managerial white collar professional jobs in the east
- Out of the top 1% of earners in Australia 11% of them are from east Sydney where only 6% of them are from west Sydney
- 93% of all new industrial developing is in the west
- North Sydney has the highest rate of white collar jobs at 65%
Income pattern advantage and disadvantage in sydney
- Influenced by employment and education further polarizing west and east
- house prices cheaper in western suburbs
Stats for income - advantage and disadvantage
2/3 of the lowest 20% of Australian households rely on social security payments
Average house price in Easter $2.5 million, West $0.8 Million
- In Sydney’s west nearly 1 in 3 people live in poverty, a gap of almost 30% when compared to rates in Sydney’s east
spatial distribution of Infrastruction
- distribution of public transport (train), with a lack connecting the west and east has perceptualized the divide and inability to move-
- hospitals only 1 in western suburbs, 3 in eastern
- uneven distribution of private schools
What caused Sydney’s economic character change
Economic restructuring from trade and manufacturing services to professional, IT based and finance services, due to globalisation and the movement of manufacturing off seas to countries with cheaper labour
Impact of Sydney’s changing economic character (6)
- Emergence of ‘ Global Sydney’
- creation of urban corridor - the world’s most successful professional services clusters
- increased demand for urban renewal and consolidation in the CBD to increase ‘connection’
- large scale urban decay of industrial areas
- Increase income, enabling constructing on more public infrastructure and transport
- greater polarization between rich and poor
- commercial building boom - to accommodate global financial businesses e.g. Barangaroo
Examples of impact of Sydney’s changing economic character
- 93000 jobs were created from the urban corridor from 2008 - 2013
- Development of Sydney knowledge hubs
CBD - financial and professional services
Pyrmon -Ultimo - creative digital tech and education
Macquarie Park - medical technology
Drivers of Sydney changing economic character
- Increasing international students in unis
- Increased tourism in Sydney
-Globalisation - boom of Sydney’s knowledge intensive industries
What is the nature of residents in Sydney
- aging population increased life expectancy
- later age of marriage
- couples having less children (changed role of women)
- increase in SINKs and DINKs
- Changed lifestyle expectations on affordability, convenience, transport ect
- decrease demand for larger houses
What is the changed location of residential land in Sydney
East - CBD
- targets toward high income earners, professions, DINKs and SINKs
- urban consolidation in CBS (Ryde, Pyrmont)
- Dominated by medium/ high density housing
- increasing house prices
West
- Suburbia (Harris Park)
- dominated by low density detached housing (57%) and young families (35%)
- Australian Dream
