REPRESENTATION III ASSIGNMENT 1
A1729853 YIXUAN ZHU
CONTENT SITE INTRODUCTION SITE HISTORY SITE ANALYSIS
Site Introduction
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Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for the only freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city centre. Light's design, now listed as national heritage, set out the city centre in a grid layout known as "Light's Vision", interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares, and entirely surrounded by parklands.
1960 Union Hall
2010 Hub Central
1910 Rundle Mall
1930 Victoria square
Site History
2020 Adelaide
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Due to the geographical location of Adelaide and the impact of global warming, the high buildings and roads in the city have a strong ability to absorb heat, and the lack of vegetation in the urban area of Adelaide leads to increasing temperatures in the city centre.
Site Analysis
Water
The year 2020 was Australia's fourth highest on record. Australia's regional average temperature in 2020 will be 1.15°C higher than the 1961-1990 average. The mean maximum temperature is the eighth highest temperature on record with the mean maximum temperature of 1.24°C. The mean minimum temperature was the fourth highest ever recorded, at 1.05°C above the average. The 10-year average temperature from 2011 to 2020 was the highest on record, 0.94°C higher than the average temperature and 0.33°C higher than the 10-year period from 2001 to 2010. Since 2013, all years have been Australia's hottest decade on record. Of the 10 warmest years, only one (1998) occurred before 2005. Since national records began in 1910, Australia's climate has warmed by an average of 1.44±0.24°C. Most of the warming occurred in 1950.
December 2019 is marked by extreme heat and dangerous fire weather. In the absence of widespread rainfall, fires that started in eastern Australia during the spring continue to burn across large swaths of southeastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales and the northeastern states of Victoria and Gipps. As heat wave conditions continued into early January, the last days of 2019 and the first day of 2020 saw particularly dangerous fire weather, with further major fires being lit, while existing fires experienced new flares. Extreme heat again hit southeastern Australia in late January and early February. The decrease in rainfall, combined with a rise in average temperatures, has made the city warmer and drier.
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Vegetation
December 2019 is marked by extreme heat and dangerous fire weather. In the absence of widespread rainfall, fires that started in eastern Australia during the spring continue to burn across large swaths of southeastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales and the northeastern states of Victoria and Gipps. As heat wave conditions continued into early January, the last days of 2019 and the first day of 2020 saw particularly dangerous fire weather, with further major fires being lit, while existing fires experienced new flares. Extreme heat again hit southeastern Australia in late January and early February. The decrease in rainfall, combined with a rise in average temperatures, has made the city warmer and drier.
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