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Unit 4: Planning and Sustainable Futures
Quick questions on Urban concentration and primacy: WACE Year 12 Geography
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What is describing the urban system?Show answer
Geographers compare cities within a country to see how balanced the settlement system is.
What is consequences of urban concentration?Show answer
Concentration has real benefits: it pools talent and infrastructure, lifts productivity, and drives innovation and national growth. But extreme primacy carries costs.
What are planning implications?Show answer
Concentration and primacy are central to planning. Governments respond with decentralisation policies, regional development incentives, and investment in second cities to rebalance growth. A strong answer links the pattern to the policy response and judges whether a more balanced system would be more sustainable.
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