Fieldwork Question & Hypotheses

Your Internal Assessment will be framed under this general heading: 

"Spatial variations in urban stress and sustainability in Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria"

The question you develop needs to be focused on Option G: Urban Environments, specifically urban stress and sustainability. You need to consider the locations we are visiting and the aspects of urban stress we might be able to collect data on, such as traffic congestion, air pollution, noise pollution etc. Use the tool below and the examples to help. It is recommended that your question builds in a comparative element and considers "To what extent.."

Examples of hypotheses:

• • High local air pollution correlates with the greatest periods of traffic congestion resulting in elevated urban stress.

  • Locations with green space have lower perceptions of urban stress.

  • Increased noise pollution correlates with with increased pedestrian flow exacerbating urban stress effects

  • Those locations with greater building density demonstrate higher levels of harmful air pollution.