Place and Liveability

What is the definition of liveability?

• Assessment of what a place is like to live in, using particular criteria, for example, environmental quality, crime and safety, education and health provision and access to shops and services.

• An excessive amount of noise that may make completing activities in a place difficult or impossible.

• The area around the student’s home or school that can be explored in a few hours.

• The organisation of systems such as roads, transport and communication systems that serve an area, country or region.

Factors of liveability can be broken down under three categories? What are they?

• Environmental Factors, Economic Factors and Leisure Factors

• Economic Factors, Employment Factors and Social Factors

• Economic Factors, Personal Factors and Health Factors

• Economic Factors, Environmental Factors and Social Factors

Not everyone has the same opinion about liveability. This is because ...

• people do not like to live near the city

• people have different perceptions about what they want and need

• liveability changes between rural and urban areas

• people love to live near the beach

Which picture depicts a rural area?

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Which picture depicts an urban area?

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True or False? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a higher percentage of the population living in remote and rural areas than urban.

• True

• False

Ben and Jess have five kids of school age, a large dog and they like to be outdoors. Choose one factor from the list below, that will probably NOT influence their decision to live in a certain neighbourhood.

• a range of schools nearby

• Dog walking park

• a large house

• Aged care homes

What does 'environmental quality' mean

• having access to environmental resources now and in the future

• the condition of the environment being able to meet the needs of humans

• the decline of environmental resources

• the regeneration of degraded land areas

Good environmental quality is important because

• it reduces stress and anxiety

• it improves health and wellbeing

• it increases liveability

• all of the above

Which of the following is a PUSH factor?

• High crime rate

• Access to goods and services

• Nice climate

• Close to family and friends