Step 4: Communicating It’s now time to prepare your submission. You’ll be presenting your new city as a poster or presentation. You will need to include: a. the name of your city b. the location of your city c. maps of where your city is located d. the printouts of the population data to support the placement of the city in that location e. anything else that you think will make your city proposal the winning entry. Make your city brilliant. Include things like: • Indigenous cultural/historic sites depending on your initial location • universities • interconnectivity and accessibility to technology • zoos • sporting facilities • ports • airports • theatre districts, tourism destinations • be creative, think about the location of your city and what you can do to make it special. Complete your self-assessment using the Inquiry rubric or access the 15.12 exercise set to complete it online. LESSON 15.13 Investigating topographic maps – Jakarta
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this lesson, you should be able to identify land heights and features across Jakarta on a map.
15.13.1 Urbanisation in Jakarta Jakarta is situated on flat lowlands on the northern coast of Indonesia’s West Java province. The city has expanded rapidly; in central areas, it has a population density of about 18 500 people per square kilometre. Jakarta has regularly experienced flooding as a result of a combination of factors including: • heavy wet-season rainfall • low relief and land sitting below sea level
• shallow rivers that easily flood • rubbish deposits in river beds.
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