What are the Structural, Economic and Social characteristics of Wellington? What are the main processes that led to these patterns?
Learning Intentions: Students are learning to
- Define these terms and distinguish between social, economic and structural patterns.
- Spatially identify the different economic, social and structural zones in Wellington.
- Recognise and explain several key processes that led to the development of different land use patterns in Wellington.
- Explain and justify which traditional urban model best fits Wellington’s land use patterns.
Success criteria (How do students know they have achieved success?)
- Students will be able to define and distinguish between Social, Economic and Structural patterns.
- Students will be able to locate and label the different land use patterns in Wellington and write paragraphs describing them together with relevant diagrams or sketches.
- Students will be able to name key case study areas that illustrate examples of each of the structural, economic and social patterns found in Wellington.
- Students will be able to name some of the processes that have created these land use patterns (transport, planning, suburbanisation, urban sprawl, decentralisation etc).
Relevant Film Archive Footage
Note: The relevant film footage for lessons 8- 10, 11-13, & 14-20 overlaps considerably
Disk Two: C.B.D:
- Transition Stages: Te Aro Flat: Wellington Slums
- Decentralisation 1970s: Notes on a NZ City
Disk Two: Economic Characteristics:
- Wartime Expansion: Weekly Review 80
- Upper Hutt: Weekly Review 80
- Industry Downturn 1980s: 6:30 News 31/01/1986
Disk One: Expansion and Infrastructure Post WWII
- Wellington In-Fill Housing & Expansion: Pepperpot State Housing
- Wellington In-Fill Housing & Expansion: Analysing the Suburb
- Infrastructure & Population Boom: Hutt Valley Youth Club 1958
- State Housing: Post-War Housing Boom: Wainuiomata: Heartland Wainuiomata
- State Housing: Post-War Housing Boom: Porirua Housing Expansion: Pictorial Parade 79
Disk Two: Social Characteristics: Social Realities
- Absolutely Positively Wasted
- Wellington’s Homeless (1) and (2)
Disk Two: Social Characteristics: Wellington Communities (compare representation of demographics!)
- 1970: Greggs Coffee Commercial
- 1983: Here Comes The Sun
Disk Two: Social Characteristics: Wellington Communities
- Maori, Italian, Greek, Asian, Pacific and Refugee communities in Wellington
Activities
- Students complete concept wheels for key terms for this section (patterns, structural, social, and economic, urban models)
- Students draw/copy/use provided urban land use models and discuss the terms contained in them.
- Read handout on Wellington’s structural patterns and attempt a similar summary of the economic and social patterns of Wellington.
- Visit http://www.bigcities.govt.nz/knowledge.htm and make notes on the social and economic characteristics of Wellington.
- Students complete concept wheels for key terms for this section (patterns, structural, social, and economic, urban models)
- Students complete three maps to showing spatially the main structural, economic and social patterns of Wellington.
- Question: which land use model best fits Wellington now? In the past?
- Question: Why does this differ – what technology made the land use change so significantly?
- Students write paragraphs based on previous examination questions
Handouts
Teacher Notes
The following website is very useful for examining key economic and social indicators for Wellington
http://www.bigcities.govt.nz/knowledge.htm (also go to interactive graphs).
Good information on:
Age structure
Population Projections
- Ethnicity
- Projected median age
- Education (knowledge and skills)
- Economic Standard of living
http://www.bigcities.govt.nz/pdfs/2007/Quality_of_Life_2007_People.pdf
http://www.bigcities.govt.nz/pdfs/2007/Quality_of_Life_2007_Housing.pdf (Urban Housing intensification-growth of apartments) Ref Summary for Wellington
http://www.bigcities.govt.nz/pdfs/media/MediaRelease-Wellington_Quality_of_Life.pdf
