Unit 7 - Urbanization

Essential Questions:

• 1. What is a city?

  2. What are the different types of services?

  3. Where are consumer services distributed?

  4. Where are business services distributed?

  5. What are differences between urban, suburban, and rural settlements?

  6. Where are people distributed in urban areas?

  7. Why are urban areas expanding?

  8. Why do urban areas face challenges?

  9. What is suburbanization?

Learning Targets

• 1. I can describe the factors that are used to identify cities/urban areas, and the factors that are used to identify global cities.

  2. I can summarize the reasons why cities develop where they do.

  3. I can describe the distinctions between consumer, business, and public services.

  4. I can explain why services cluster in the central business district.

  5. I can apply the central place theory to predict where consumer services are distributed within a city.

  6. I can explain how to use threshold and range to find the optimal location for a service.

  7. I can describe the distribution of different-sized settlements by analyzing the hierarchy of consumer services.

  8. I can apply the hierarchy of business services to compare and contrast the different types of businesses found in smaller cities versus those found in larger (global) cities.

  9. I can describe the areas within an urban area where businesses are generally distributed.

  10. I can analyze the different types of business services offered in both developed and developing countries.

  11. I can explain the concept of economic base.

  12. I can describe the service distribution in rural settlements.

  13. I can analyze the differences between urban, suburban, and rural settlements.

  14. I can analyze and apply the concentric zone, sector, and multiple nuclei models to predict where people live in an urban area (in the US, in Europe, and in developing countries).

  15. I can analyze the causes and effects of urban and suburban expansion and explain how the expansion of suburbs has led to suburban segregation.

  16. I can describe the processes of deterioration and gentrification in cities.