In Australia, different residents live in various types of dwellings. This essay will mainly talk about the demographic characteristics which collect from census data and make comparisons to the housing characteristics to explore the relationships with them. The suburbs that have been chosen are Teneriffe and Hawthorne in Brisbane, which the maps have been shown below (the first one is Hawthorne and the second one is Teneriffe), and the reason for choosing these two areas are, they are two suburbs that close to each other. Also they are separated from the Brisbane River, which may imply that these two suburbs may not only have similar characters, but also have distinct properties. The number of people in Hawthorne is 4775 and the number of people in Teneriffe is 4699(ABS 2011a) (ABS 2011b). There are primarily three aspects to discuss, the first one is from income and rent side, secondly, it will be discussed by the person patterns, and third part will talk about the dwelling structure in different suburbs.
In the first place, it will be discussed by the income and rent from both Teneriffe and Hawthorne. Both median ages of people in these two suburbs are 33 years old, which means that these are two “lively” areas since most residents are in middle age and are in careering period. The median totally personal income per week of Hawthorne is 970 dollars while the personal income per week of Teneriffe is 1284 dollars. And the median total household income per week of Hawthorne is 2101 dollars, and the median total household income per week of Teneriffe is 2476 dollars. This implies that on average, inhabitants who live in Teneriffe have slightly more income than those in Hawthorne. Perhaps because that Theneriffe used to be the majo...
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In 1900, Pyrmont was an important port and industrial area, with a population of almost 30 000 people. There was a wide range of industries and services present including wharves, dockyards, warehouses, abattoirs, wool stores, railway yards and even an incinerator for the disposal of Sydney’s waste. It was deemed a working-class suburb with a predominantly Irish/Catholic population. As the income for Pyrmont was only modest, semi-detached cottages were the most common type of housing present. In the 1960’s however, Pyrmont-Ultimo was deteriorating at a fast rate and became an unfortunate example of urban decay.
In conducting this assignment we visited the neighborhood of Washington Heights. During our visits we interviewed several of the residences; so that we could get a first hand prospective of what it is like living in the community, why they settled in the community and the many changes that they have witness durning their time in the neighborhood.
Pyrmont is an inner city suburb located in Sydney and is approximately 2 kilometers west of Sydney’s CBD. Pyrmont is part of the Darling Harbour region and the location of the Local Government Area is the city of Sydney. Pyrmont, once a large manufacturing hub dominated by blue collar workers, transformed into a globalised city mostly consumed by the white collar industry (Sue Van Zuylan, Glyn Trethewy, Helen McIsaac 2007, pp. 218). Pyrmont has experienced an era of transformation, from a dominated primary and secondary industry city to a city of urban decay and now a vibrant residential community and its leading white-collar industry thriving in the Australian economy. While observing Pyrmont, it mainly consists of high-rise apartments and commercial buildings along with green spaces. Housing in Pyrmont consists of mainly new modern townhouses or high-rise apartments, however there is ‘affordable housing’ provided by the government. Pyrmont now comprises of people of a higher socio economic status than before the urban renewal project started (sheet in class, 6th August 2014).
The swinging sixties were a time of change, people began to think differently they were no longer living in a Great Depression. Middle class families began to move their families to the suburbs to find the great American dream. John Cheever examines suburban life and peels back the clean cut image and exposes its deep, dark secrets in many of his short stories. In “The Swimmer“, John Cheever’s short story explores the dissatisfaction and secrets among the middle class white Americans who live in suburbia .
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Tonkiss considers ‘porous’ settlements - often characterised by overcrowding and poor building quality, and insecure legal tenure - to be commonplace in the developed city (Tonkiss 2014). It is clear that these characteristics are not isolated to the Global South; questions of tenure and building quality are becoming common as the urban poor are increasingly marginalised as a result of growing inequality. Inflated housing prices are synonymous with Sydney, and require very little comment; even in 2006, Beer et al. found that as many as one million Australians were living in unaffordable housing, attributing this to Australia’s broadly neoliberal economic policies (Beer, Kearins et al. 2007). Morris’ comparative study (2009) of housing affordability and tenure exemplified the issue; although respondents living in public housing would generally be considered to be living ‘at the margin’, it was those in the private rental market that indicate the greatest insecurity of tenure and financial anxiety (Morris
The decision for Australia to adopt the Federal system was on the principle of which the State’s governments wanted to keep their power. For this reason there was the separation of powers between the newly formed Commonwealth government and the existing State governments. At a constitutional level, there are rulings in which the powers are separated, these rulings due to disputes have slightly changed since 1901. These changes all fell towards the one government, the Commonwealth (Federal) government. However this was not just a landslide event, the Constitution of Australia set up this imbalance of powers between the Commonwealth and State governments. We will explore this further in the points discussed later in this essay.
Many researchers have theorized why the wealthy desire to move back into the city. Schwirian believes that many wealthy people are drawn to the architectural design of some of these old houses in urban areas (Schwirian 96). Harvey believes in a number of theories, and ...
...ed four projections of Sydney’s population to represent the impact on Sydney’s size and age structure of the four projections for the years 1999, 2009, 2019, 2039 and 2049. In the diagrams, each successive layer from the bottom to the top represents the size of the population in a five year age group. The male population is portrayed on the left side of the diagram and the female population on the right. It was found under all the years 1999, 2009, 2019, 2039 and 2049; the population becomes distinctly older, with the proportion of the population aged sixty-five and over increasing from twelve percent in 1999 to twenty-four percent in 2049 (McDonald and Keppen 2002). It can also be determined that the population pyramids show that the slightly younger population results prove higher fertility and higher migration in Sydney for the future (McDonald and Keppen 2002).
The creation of the suburbs had come in an era of progression. With young people able to afford to own this housing, it created a new type of family, different from the extended family, which consisted of parents and their children only. The suburbs were now a new type of community of people with similar houses, lifestyles and income levels. Though with this new achievement and progression, it meant a fall in urban neighborhoods as well as higher poverty or exclusion for those citizens not included in this culture.
AHousing is an outward expression of the inner human nature; no society can be understood apart from the residences of its members.@ That is a quote from the suburban historian Kenneth T. Jackson, from his magnificent piece on suburbanization Crabgrass Frontier. Suburbanization has been probably the most significant factor of change in U.S. cities over the last 50 years, and began 150 years ago. It represents Aa reliance upon the private automobile, upward mobility, the separation of the family into nuclear units, the widening division between work and leisure, and a tendency toward racial and economic exclusiveness.@ Overall it may represent the change in attitude of the American people.
Thesis: With a rapid increase in population, scarcity of inner city land, and the need to provide economic and environmentally sustainable urban dwellings, Pyrmont has undergone renewal and consolidation, which has encouraged high-income, high-density living. However this has created a widening social gap between the rich and the poor.
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The two neighborhoods that I chose to use for this assignment are vastly different. The main reason is because they are on opposite sides of the country. The first neighborhood that I visited is the one that I grew up in. This neighborhood is in Connecticut, on the East Coast, all the way across the country from the neighborhood that I currently live in here in West Hollywood. Most of my family lives in Connecticut and Massachusetts and I’m the only one who lives on the West Coast. A big difference is that the neighborhood in Connecticut has houses that are more spaced out, have larger lawns, and very many more trees. There are very few apartments there, unlike where I live now where my entire street is almost all apartment buildings.
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