Unit 7: Urban Geography & Environment

AP © Human Geography

Monday March 3rd-Wednesday April 9th

95 pages of reading

Free Response Test: 04.08.14

Multiple Choice Test: 04.09.14

VII . Cities and Urban Land Use ...... 13–17%

A . Development and character of cities

1 . Origin of cities; site and situation characteristics

2 . Forces driving urbanization

3 . Borchert’s epochs of urban transportation development

4 . World cities and megacities

5 . Suburbanization processes

B . Models of urban hierarchies: reasons for the distribution and size of cities

1 . Gravity model

2 . Christaller’s central place theory

3 . Rank-size rule

4 . Primate cities

C . Models of internal city structure and urban development: strengths and

limitations of models

1 . Burgess concentric zone model

2 . Hoyt sector model

3 . Harris and Ullman multiple nuclei model

4 . Galactic city model

5 . Models of cities in Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East,

sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia

D . Built environment and social space

1 . Types of residential buildings

2 . Transportation and utility infrastructure

3 . Political organization of urban areas

4 . Urban planning and design (e .g ., gated communities, New Urbanism,

and smart-growth policies)

5 . Census data on urban ethnicity, gender, migration, and socioeconomic

status

6 . Characteristics and types of edge cities: boomburgs, greenfields, uptowns

E . Contemporary urban issues

1 . Housing and insurance discrimination, and access to food stores

2 . Changing demographic, employment, and social structures

3 . Uneven development, zones of abandonment, disamenity, and

gentrification

4 . Suburban sprawl and urban sustainability problems: land and energy use,

cost of expanding public education services, home financing and debt

crises

5 . Urban environmental issues: transportation, sanitation, air and water

quality, remediation of brownfields, and farmland protection

If You Learn Only Seven Things In This Chapter:

1) All cities fit within Christaller’s central place theory. Some cities have greater ranges and need bigger thresholds. Range is the maximum distance people are willing to travel to get a product or service. Threshold is the minimum number of people needed for a business to operate.

2) There are three basic models of urban structure in the United States. The concentric zone theory, developed by Burgess, describes expansion in concentric rings around the central business district. The sector model, developed by Hoyt, suggests that growth extends along transportation routes. The multiple nuclei model, developed by Ullman and Harris, suggests that growth is independent of the central business district.

3) Different continents have cities with different characteristics. European cities are older and more historic. Asian cities are usually built on ports for trade. Latin American cities possess a spine of high-quality housing extending from the central business district. African cities have three separate central business districts, including a colonial central business district, contemporary central business district, and a market zone. Islamic cities are focused on the principles of the religion.

4) Cities have problems such as race relations, traffic, water delivery, pollution, and urban sprawl that can negatively affect their inhabitants unless handled appropriately by local government.

5) The three world cities are New York City, London, and Tokyo. Other cities are rated and ranked based on their economic, cultural, and political importance to the areas they serve.

6) The hierarchy of cities from smallest to largest is hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis, and megalopolis. The largest metropolis int eh United State is New York City with over 18 million people in its metropolitan areas.

7) Primate cities have at least twice the population of the next-largest city in the same country. London, Paris, and Buenos Aires are examples of primate cities.

Date / In-Class Activities / Homework
Monday
Day 1
March 3 / Test Correction Day / Fouberg 274-288
Tuesday
Day 2
March 4 / A Look at the Ukraine
Clicker Check / Fouberg 288-290
Getis 381-387
Reminder: (This is the day the reading is assigned, it is “due” Thursday. When assigned on Thursday, it is “due” on Tuesday. Vocab Quizzes only have “due” readings in them)
Wednesday
Day 3
March 5 / Revisiting Site & Situation & Hearths / Work on notecards
Thursday
Day 4
March 6 / Economic Base of a City
MCT Re-Takes (During Lunch) / Fouberg 290-296
Getis 388-397
Work on notecards
Friday
Day 5
March 7 / Vocab Quiz
Notecards Due
Monday
Day 6
March 10 / Christaller’s Central Place Theory / Work on notecards
Tuesday
Day 7
March 11 / Christaller’s Central Place (cont)
Clicker Check / Fouberg 296-303
Getis 407-415
Work on notecards
Wednesday
Day 8
March 12 / The Urban Hierarchy, Rank Size Rule, Primate City, and World Cities / Work on notecards
Thursday
Day 9
March 13 / World Cities (cont.)
Clicker Check
Unit 6 FRT Re-Takes (During Lunch) / Fouberg 304-314
Getis 398-404
Work on notecards
Friday
Day 10
March 14 / Vocab Quiz
Notecards Due / Work on notecards
Spring Break / Spring Break / Spring Break
Monday
Day 11
March24 / English STAAR / Work on notecards
Tuesday
Day 12
March 25 / Patterns of Land Use, Concentric Zone, Sector Model, Multiple Nuclei.
Clicker Check / Fouberg 315-317
Work on notecards
Wednesday
Day 13
March 26 / Patterns…cont. Differences in Core, Periphery, and Semi-Periphery / Work on notecards
Thursday
Day 14
March 27 / International Cities
Clicker Check / Fouberg 418-426
Work on notecards
Friday
Day 15
March 28 / Vocab Quiz
Notecards Due / Work on notecards
Monday
Day 16
March 31 / Globalization & Environment / Work on notecards
Tuesday
Day 17
April 1 / Globalization & Environment
Clicker Check / Fouberg 427-440
Work on notecards
Wednesday
Day 18
April 2 / Natural Disasters & Settlement Patterns / Work on notecards
Thursday
Day 19
April 3 / Climate Change
Clicker Check / Work on notecards
Friday
Day 20
April 4 / Vocab Quiz
Notecards Due
Monday
Day 21
April 7 / South & Central Asia Quiz
Tuesday
Day 22
April 8 / FRT
All Unit 7 Quiz Re-Takes During 1/2st half of lunch
Wednesday
Day 23
April 9 / MCT

Vocabulary

acid rain

acropolis

agora

agricultural surplus

agricultural village

aquifers

atmosphere

basic sector

blockbusting

central business district

central city

central place theory

city

commercialization

concentric zone model

deforestation

disamenity sector

economic base

edge cities

environmental stress

first urban revolution

Forum

functional zonation

gated communities

gentrification

global warming

Griffin-Ford model

hinterland

Huang He and Wei

hydrologic cycle

Indus River Valley

informal economy

leadership class

McGee model

McMansions

megalopolis

Mesoamerica

Mesopotamia

metropolitan area

multiple-nuclei model

multiplier effect

new urbanism

Nile River Valley

nonbasic sector

oxygen cycle

peripheral model

primate city

rank-size rule

redlining

renewable resources

River Valleys

sector model

shantytowns

site

situation

social stratification

spaces of consumption

suburb

suburbanization

Sunbelt phenomenon

tear-downs

town

trade area

urban

urban hierarchy

urban influence zone

urban morphology

urban realm

urban sprawl

urbanized area

world city

zone

zoning laws