Sociology Essay: Essential Factors for a Thriving Australian Suburb

This essay delves into the crucial aspects of creating a thriving suburb, focusing on four key dimensions: public open spaces, public transport, recreational activities, and public health. It begins by defining a suburb and emphasizing the importance of adequate facilities for a healthy lifestyle. The essay then explores public open spaces, their benefits, and examples. It further discusses public transport, its economic, environmental, and social advantages, and the evolution of transport services. Recreational activities and their impact on physical and mental health are also examined. Finally, the essay addresses public health, its role in the community, and the collaborative efforts required to maintain and improve it, concluding that all four dimensions are essential for a well-functioning suburb.

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MAKING GOOD SUBURB
AUSTRALIA
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This essay is divided into four paragraphs where the first one will focus on open spaces required
by the public, second will represent the usage of transport by the public. Third paragraph will
reflect the recreational activities conducted by the public and last one will focus on the health
and safety requirements of the public as whole. First to start with the definition of suburb.
Suburb means an area which is located outside the district or the city basically the residential
ones. For a healthy lifestyle with all the means of protection a well settled residence with all the
adequate facilities such as proper open spaces, well planned transportation system that could help
the people to travel easily and earn their livings. Entertainment is also equally important to lead a
life which is not boring. Health is the most important aspect of leading a healthy and disease free
life will help the public to lead a long and safe journey of life span (Lawrence 2013).
Public Open Space is defined as an open piece of land where the public have an access and
which can be comprised up of both green spaces such as parks and gardens and hard spaces.
Various urban planners and landscape architects made an attempt and referred this term as POS
abbreviation. Where meaning of ‘Public’ can be someone who owns a national, local or the
governmental body, or one who owns a nongovernmental organization, or someone who is
considered as the owner of a private, individual or organization but is made available for the
other public also (C, F and LC 2016). ‘Open’ means open for the access of the public at large, or
for their recreation, or outdoors i.e. spaces that are not included in a building or vegetation. The
best example of public open spaces are the public parks, a town square, and a highway, a private
road with public access etc. POS can raise the visual appeal, amenity and value of a suburbs or
the areas found as its neighbor. Many benefits can be afforded by POS aside providing places for
playing, relaxing or getting activated such as the environmental gains i.e. protecting the
biodiversity and the visual landscapes, retaining the ecology and its linkages. Social benefits

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such as gaining through the interaction of the community and activation of places for formal and
informal sports for recreational activities (Chaudhury, et al. 2017). Cultural benefits that can be
gained by recognition and interpretation of values of the historic and the indigenous species. Last
one is the economic benefit which can be earned through providing those provisions which can
support visualization for sports, recreation and tourism. Thus the open spaces can be defined as
those spaces in which the community has an access and is encouraged and properly managed
(Alan and Curt 2016).
Public transport is also known as mass transit and that system by which numerous passengers or
the group of travelers are made available to use the services of travelling and it is generally made
available for the general public and are basically managed by the schedules which operates on
the routes and charge a fixed amount for each trips. The best examples of public transport are
city buses, trolley buses, trams, local and passenger trains etc. Modes of travel includes mostly
all the public trips like the passengers walking and catching the services of the bus or access to
the railway station. Now a days the share taxies are highly on demand in mostly all the parts of
the world which are competing with the fixed lines of the public transport etc. There are Ola,
Uber and many more companies of the same types which provide services through online or
internet (Ercan, et al. 2017). These companies provide door to door services to the people in need
of services. Benefits of the public transport includes firstly the Economic benefit i.e. it reduces
congestion as it is one of the biggest threat to the developed nations and its solution is to spread
the use of public transportation. Second is enhancement of productivity public transportation
plays a very significant role and increase the opportunity and the productivity by moving the
knowledge, labor and skills in between and within the market areas. Third is it increases the

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value of the land as the improved public transport access can increase the value of the land. Then
comes the profit to the environment as it ensures a clean ecosystem i.e. by reducing the number
of cars on the road the pollution can be taken under control, second is it prevents the global
warming as transportation are considered as the most important factor behind the commission of
the global warming, here the usage of public transportation comes as miracle as it will reduce the
usage of the transports on the road which will automatically reduce global warming, thirdly it
helps in reducing the carbon foot pints etc. It also has social benefits such as improving the
health i.e. the reduction in transportation will automatically reduce pollution and hence will
promote good health (Gostin , Wiley and Frieden 2016).
Recreational activities are an act of leisure. For better biological and psychological functioning
of the human body one needs to do some or the other recreational activities. These activities are
basically done for the enjoying, amusements or other types of pleasure or relaxations and are
mostly considered or done for fun. Humans basically spend their time while doing the daily
activities for living like sleep, work, eat, and perform some social duties all these are the main
perquisites of the recreation (Hecke, Benedicte and Delfien 2016). It has many benefits in
relation to the health as the therapeutic recreation rehabilitates the youths and adults and also
takes proper care of the elderly and the people with disabilities. Physical recreation activities
reduces the obesity and risk of osteoporosis as well as of cancer i.e. in colon of men and breast of
women. Benefits of the recreational activities are as follows first is the physical benefit, second
is improvements in the mental health, third is the improvements in the quality of the life etc.
(Koohsari, Javad and Mavoa 2015).

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Public Health, the term heath is basically related to the matters of medical so knowing the exact
meaning of public health is difficult and a slight confusing and is not a one on one discipline.
Rather the term public health imposes weightage upon the improving and protecting the health
and wellbeing of the community at large and emphasizes upon creating awareness among the
people at large. Thus all the societies must prepare and maintain those conditions where the
people of its community can lead a healthy; life (Lam, et al. 2016). This responsibility of
maintaining and improving the health of the public remains with all the different sectors of the
society. Medical care or also known as the public health care system are mostly carried out by
the combinations in a community (NewsRx 2017). These combination may include both the
public and the private sectors, i.e. governmental and nongovernmental bodies of providing health
care in the community at a large (Monti and S 1992).
Thus, from the above essay it can be concluded that for making a good suburb all the fur
dimensions i.e. the creation of open spaces for the public, formation of public transportations,
recreational activities and the care and protection of the health of the public at large are
necessary to be fulfilled. Or else the dream of creating a good suburb can never be fulfilled.

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