Task One

Topic:
"How the process of Urban Sprawl has influenced spatial patterns within the Wellington urban settlement?"

Research Questions:

What is urban sprawl?
What did the origional suburbs surrounding Wellington look like?
How far was the fringe of town from the CBD in certain years?
What factors have influenced urban sprawl?

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Information that will be useful, sources and recording:

- Definitions of urban sprawl from online dictionaries and encyclopedias.

- Photos of Wellington now in areas that used to be fringes of the city, eg. top of Cuba St. Taken by us and found on Google Images.

- Maps of Wellington from the 1900s and suburbs within Wellington, from Archives Wellington that are found both on their website and at their office in Wellington City.

- Data on population growth found in census books at Wellington Library.

- Old photos of Wellington city from Wellington Archives.

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Four different methods for presenting our information:

- Photos of olden day Wellington suburbs compared to now.

- Maps showing the edge of Wellington city.

- Graphs showing the population growth influencing the urban sprawl.

- Written answers to our research questions.

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