Urban Sprawl

Urban sprawl

outwards spread of low density residential and urban development on the periphry of urban areas

Much of perths housing supply comes from low density, detached dwellings

Scope of Urban sprawl

It currently takes 2 hours to drive from one end to another end of perth and if current growth rate continues the metropolitin area is expected to grow up to 250km

Growth (scope)

Perth will become 3rd largest city in country as perth expreinced 2nd highest pop growth rate of all cap cities

Areas with large grwoth is ellenbrook and Baldivis

Dwelling density and block size

Causes of Urban Sprawl

Population and economic growth and shift towards car-based transport are causes of disperesed gorwth patterns. Planning policies and chasing Aussie dream are addional causes

Planning policies ( Causes )

1973 corridor plan kept perth at centre of metropolitin area and allowed development of 4 urban growth corridors

1990 Metroplan was introcuded with consturction of satlellite suburb Ellenbrook

Car ownership