LIVEABLE CITIES AND LIVEABLE

SUBURBS
Place and Liveability - Topic Two
How much do you LOVE your city?
Complete the Sydney LOVEABILITY
survey below in your books.
1) Write the heading “Loveability
survey: Sydney”
2) Choose a RED pen and write down
the question
3) Choose a BLUE/BLACK to record your
answers
Loveability Survey: Sydney
1. What do you love most about
where you live?
2. If you could improve one thing,
what would it be?
3. My favourite experience in Sydney
is…
4. The Sydney I love to look at is…
5. When I’m away from Sydney, I
miss…
6. The one thing I wish for Sydney is…
Learning Goals

Learning Intention
• To identify services and facilities that influence liveability of places
• To understand what access to facilities are available in our country
Success Criteria
• I can identify different services and facilities that influence the
liveability of Melbourne and Sydney
• I can use mapping skills to identify liveability features of a city or
suburb
Australia’s Liveable Cities

◻Read the information on the next slide and answer the questions below
in your book:
1. What features of their city do Melburnians like the best? How do these
features help to make the city more liveable?

2. What features of their city do Melburnians like the least?

3. Compare what you wrote for questions 1 and 2 of your Loveability survey.
Are there similarities between what Melburnians like best and what you
like best? Can you think why this may be?
Australia’s Liveable Cities: Melbourne
In a survey conducted by Deakin University, using the same themes as
the World Liveability Index, Melbourne residents were asked about
the ‘lovability’ of their city. The survey asked eight questions to sense
how people felt about how they lived.
While the city performed poorly in affordability, public transport and
road network, it scored well among residents for culture, environment
and education.
The survey found people from almost all regions rated their suburbs’
lovability higher than they scored the other liveability measures.
Melburnians love where they live!
Extract from Oxford Insight Geography Australian Curriculum for NSW Stage 4
 Services and Facilities
◻ A person’s wellbeing is something that shows
whether a place is liveable or not. It is one of the Transport
and roads
measures of liveability used in the surveys and
data that we looked at last lesson. Shopping
Education
Centres
◻ Wellbeing means “being comfortable, healthy
and happy” Services and
facilities
◻ The 6 services and facilities in the mindmap have important to
wellbeing
been identified as improving wellbeing for people
Copy the mindmap into your geography book and Healthcare Water

add 2 ideas for each service/facility for how it

improves wellbeing (how it makes life more Waste
comfortable, healthy and happy)
 Services and Facilities in your local area
◻ Use google maps to identify and highlight the key services and facilities close to your home.
1. Open up google maps and search for your suburb
2. Zoom in and out of the map looking for the 6 different services and facilities
3. Copy and complete the table using the map of your suburb (in your geography book). You can put more than one example in the
table.

Service/Facility Examples from my suburb

Transport and roads (this could be main roads, public transport
stops/statins)
Education (schools, universities, TAFEs)
Water (facilities for treatment of distributing water)
Waste (facilities for treating or managing waste including tips or
recycling facilities)
Healthcare (medical centers, pharmacies, hospitals, dentist)
Shopping Centres

◻ Answer the question under the table in your book: What services and facilities do you think your community is lacking?
 Liveable Cities Around the World
◻ Create an infographic or poster that compares Vienna as one of the most liveable cities and
Harare as one of the least liveable cities in the world.
◻ You will need to use the information on the following slides to start your infographic/poster and
you should do some of your own extra research about the 2 cities
◻ Your infographic/poster must include:
⬜ Definitions
⬜ Statistics and data
⬜ Symbols
⬜ Factual information

You can use the free website Canva (https://www.canva.com/) to help create your infographic.
You may also do it on another program on your device or by hand in your geography book.
Vienna
Vienna
Harrare
Harrare
Liveable Cities and Liveable Suburbs
Success Criteria
• I can identify different environmental and human factors that influence
the liveability of Melbourne and Sydney
• I can use mapping skills to identify liveability features of a city