Unit VI - Cities and Urban Land-Use
(12-17% of the AP Exam will be over Unit 6 material)
AP Human Geography: Unit 6 - Cities and Urban Land-Use
6.1
Definitions and urbanization
Unit VI Broken Down
6.2
Origin and evolution of cities
1. Historical patterns of urbanization
2. Rural-urban migration and urban growth
3. Global cities and megacities
4. Models of urban cities
Required Viewing: "New Urbanism"
Article after viewing video above: Dynamic Communities: The New American Suburb (Washington Post May 2017)
Be sure to click on the interactive portions included in the article above.
Urban Geography: Why Do We Live Where We Do?
Birth of Cities - How did Cities emerge? Why do cities exist?
Unit 6 - Urbanization & Cities
Cage Homes - Hong Kong - This is Crazy, But Not For Lack of Space (It's Urban Planning)
People live in the space of a US parking space. Could you do this?
Urban Life - A Short Film
Slice of Urban Life
6.3
Functional character of contemporary cities
1. Changing employment mix
2. Changing demographics and social structures
6.4
Built environment and social space
1. Comparative models of internal city structure
2. Transportation and infrastructure
3. Political organization of urban areas
4. Urban planning and design
5. Patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, and class
6. Uneven development, gentrification, and ghettoization
7. Impacts of suburbanization and edge cities
Slide 36 - Contains Optional Urban Planning Project Specifics
What Computer Games Taught Me About Urban Planning
Mystery House
City planning in action - there are secrets in cities everywhere. What starts out as ordinary suddenly becomes very interesting. Check out the video above!
Transportation and Planning
Unit VI - Cities & Urban Development
Urbanization and the Future of Cities
400 Years of Territorial Development
Air Project
Air - London
Next time your flying over an urban area in a window seat, check out the urban planning (infrastructure and organization)
Listen to this broadcast from NPR (hint: you may see this on a future test) - Urban Utopia
CHRISTALLER'S CENTRAL PLACE THEORY
COMPLETE SERVICES
Kevin Lynch, Image of the City
paths, the streets, sidewalks, trails, and other channels in which people travel;
edges, perceived boundaries such as walls, buildings, and shorelines;
districts, relatively large sections of the city distinguished by some identity or character;
nodes, focal points, intersections or loci;
landmarks, readily identifiable objects which serve as external reference points."imageability
Urban Hierarchy
Geospatial Revolution
CITY & URBAN DESCRIPTIONS
1. Concentric Zone Model
2. Sector Model
3. Multi Nuclei Model
The "Shadow Cities of the Future"
CITY DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
City Beautiful Movement
Defensive cities - walled cities
Crime free or crime reduced communities, Gated communities or CPTED
Grand Manner Cities (Washington, Brasilia, Canberra)
Radburn Plan
Garden City
Vertical City, Sky City 2000 and others
Victory City
Venus Project
Broadacre City, Designing with Nature
Sustainable Community
Underwater City
Floating Cities (http://www.freedonship.com/)
Fly in Community
Golf Course Communities
Squatters on the Skyline
Metropolitan Revolution
MAPPING AMERICA
Practice Urban Models
Baroque Architecture
Gothic Architecture
Colonial Architecture
NeoClassical (Georgian) Architecture
Victorian Architecture
Postmodern Architecture
MAPPING OUR WORLD
REVIEW UNIT VII
Urban Geography in a Nutshell
Urban Geography - Video Lecture - Part I
APHG Notes - Chapter 13 - Urban Patterns
World Cropland
Supplemental Readings:
Primary Documents:
Why Kids Don't Go Outside Anymore
Dhaka - The Fastest Growing Megacity in the World - Part I
Dhaka - The Fastest Growing Megacity in the World - Part II
Dhaka - The Fastest Growing Megacity in the World - Part III
Dhaka - The Fastest Growing Megacity in the World - Part IV
Dhaka - The Fastest Growing Megacity in the World - Part V
60 Minutes - China's Ghost Cities
Urban Land Use Models
60 Minutes - China's Real Estate Bubble
Urbanization and Megacities - Jakarta
Brazil's Future: Olympics, World Cup, and 30 Billion Dollars
Will Brazil Be Ready?
Making Sense of Maps
Tiny Capital
Can you guess the city?
Flexible Urban Planning
The Ever-Expanding Slums - Where are the World's Worst Slums
Urban Planning Models: Concentric Zone Model | Sector Model | Multi - Nuclei Model
Urban Density and Land Use Patterns [AP Human Geography Unit 6 Topic 6]
What is a slum? Why do so many live in slums? Which slums are the worst?
Student Project Presentations
Key Issue 13.2 & 13.3 (First half of 13.3)
Last half of Key Issue 13.3 & All of 13.4
Africa's Mega-City: Future Megaprojects
Discussion involving Political Geography, squatter settlements, population pyramids, and more!