Human settlements
Theme commentary
Professor Peter W. Newton, Swinburne University of Technology
prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee at CSIRO, 2006
Appendix 3: Key transitions
| Settlement Transitions |
Walking City | Transit City | Auto City | Mega-metropoliton Region |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Transitions |
Human & Animal Muscle Power; Fuel from Timber | Fuel from Coal; Steam Porter | Liquid Fossil Fuels; Internal Combustion Engine | DIstributed, Renewable Energy, Maglev; Hydrogen Economy | |||||
| Communication Transitions |
Face-to-Face Communication; Print | Analog Comms; Centralised Telematics | Digital (mixed mode); Mobile Communications | High Bandwidth, Wireless Internet; Telepresence | |||||
| Industrial Transitions |
Agrarian to Industrial Economy | Industrial to Services Economy | Services to Information Economy | Emergence of Green Economy | |||||
| Water & Wastewater Transitions |
Settlement located near fresh water supplies; waste to landfill, pits, receiving waters | Diverted Water; Linear System; centralised and separate water and sewerage systems; discharge of waste to environment | Integrated Urban Water System; City as Catchment; Closed Loop | ||||||
| Building & Construction Transitions |
Increasing building heights and densities possible through materials and engineering revolutions | ||||||||
Source: Newton 2005