History A-Level
Urban planning and colonial expansion
What Urban planning and colonial expansion means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Urban planning and colonial expansion
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Sydney was planned and developed with public buildings, roads and wharves, and new towns such as Richmond and Windsor were founded to settle land and manage flooding.
Topics that use Urban planning and colonial expansion
- Paper 3, Option 35.1: Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763–1914 - 2 The birth of British Australia, 1788–1829 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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