What Are The Factors That Influence Australian Cities

Dominance and dependence exists between world cities and other urban centres. An example of this is Sydney’s role in contrast to the other Australian cities. Sydney is the principal centre for smaller, Australian-controlled businesses. Sydney relies on major world cities such as Tokyo, London and New york for creation of employment, factories and other opportunities. For example, car manufacturing is a very costly business to run and operate. Evidently, it was cheaper for the Toyota company to run overseas in Tokyo then here in Australia and so the factories shut down and moved to Tokyo for better flow on effects on the local economy.

World cities significantly have dominance over other urban centres. Decisions that are made in world cities

Decisions made in world cities then influence regional centres such as Tey’s and Cargill Abattoirs in Wagga, AON bank in London also located in Wagga, McDonalds in Wagga, BP fuel station located in most regional areas. Important information, changes and/or improvements move through the urban hierarchy into regional centres such as Wagga, so that the company/business is mostly the same even in different locations. Further, sporting opportunities don’t happen very often in in regional centres such as Wagga, even though there is a lot of talent especially in football. The ‘Greater Western Sydney’ football team developed in 2009, which then played their first game in 2012 bought in some local talent into the first grade team. These boys then told the media where they came from so then the club decided to have a giants academy

Cities like Brisbane, Darwin, Adelaide, Hobart, and Perth have functions that have been largely absorbed into Sydney and to a lesser extent Melbourne through corporate takeovers. These urban centres operate at an intrastate level of networking within Australia’s federal administrative structure. Further dominance would be exerted from Sydney over nearby urban centres like Newcastle and Wollongong. These relationships of dominance and dependence occur on a global scale and these roles are even more pronounced when the country has a greater number of urban centres and world cities that surround a dominant world city.

London acts as a centre of dependence for other major cities across the nation especially for financial transactions. Cities such as Birmingham and Manchester rely on London for a variety of needs and allow them to subsequently be linked into the global network. Nearby these major cities, are the urban centers that have dependent relationship with their closest major city. Eg Manchester - dependent urban places in close proximity include Liverpool, Chester and