HSC Geography Urban Places deep-dive quiz quiz

A world city has more than 10 million people; a mega-city has fewer

A world city is defined by function (command-and-control centre for finance, corporate headquarters and producer services); a mega-city is defined by size (more than 10 million people under the UN definition)

World cities are only in the developed world; mega-cities are only in the developing world

There is no difference between the two terms

1 million people

5 million people

10 million people

50 million people

Apartment-tower construction in the CBD

Rising car ownership, returning-servicemen housing schemes, and the post-1945 expansion of low-density single-detached housing

The closure of Western Sydney rail lines

A government ban on home ownership

Suburbanisation

Counter-urbanisation

Gentrification

Decentralisation

A single CBD-centred city

Three connected cities: the Eastern Harbour City, the Central River City (Parramatta), and the Western Parkland City (Liverpool, Penrith and the Western Sydney Aerotropolis)

Two cities: north and south of the Harbour

Five cities each with its own state government

Demolishing all apartment buildings

Policy-driven higher-density housing along transport corridors, with higher-density dwellings rising from around 25 percent of the housing stock in 1996 to over 40 percent in 2024

Building only on greenfield land

Banning new housing within 10 km of the CBD

A small regional service centre

A developing-world mega-city of around 21 million people (Mumbai Metropolitan Region) illustrating a formal-informal duality, with Dharavi as one of the largest informal settlements in the world

A purely planned new town

An entirely rural region

Around 5 percent

Around 20 percent

Around 42 percent

Effectively none

Management has solved every problem fully

Local management instruments (the MMRDA, the Coastal Road Project, Metro expansion) improve mobility and coordination but are bottlenecked by land scarcity, governance fragmentation and the sheer scale of informal settlement

There is no urban planning at all

Mumbai has no informal settlement

Penrith

Newtown

Bankstown

Campbelltown