APHG Unit 6

Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes

• Unit 6 Vocab List
• Urban Models Quiz with Answers
• Urban Geography help for when the textbook doesn't.
• Site and Situation in Urban Geography
• Unit 2 GeoInquiries
  • GeoInquiry: Range (instructions/questions)
  • GeoInquiry: Urban areas (instructions/questions)
• Metro Nashville's Urban Growth Maps
• Megacities have at least 10 million people. In 1950 only 3 cities satisfied this definition – London, New York and Tokyo, today this number is far greater.
• Metacities are any urban area or conurbation with more than 20 million people e.g.Tokyo and Mexico City.
• World cities are those that exert a dominant influence over continental and global economies and processes. This is INDEPENDENT of population size, as world cities do not have to have huge populations (but usually do) to exert such a huge influence. Indeed, a world city (also called global city) is a city generally considered to be an important node (FOCAL POINT) in the global economic system such as London, New York and Tokyo.
• Megacities and Metacities ppt
• Sprawlanta
• Boomburb, Edge City, Exurb comparison
• How connected are the world's cities? PPT
• Primate Cities & Rank-Size Rule
• Zipf's Law (rank-size rule)
• An Overview of Christaller's Central Place Theory
• Central Place Theory
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• Central Place Theory Activity
• Key Geographic Models & Theories
  • Include the following models in your notes (simple drawing, labeled, and basic notes for each)  Use the textbook.:
    • Burgess Concentric-Zone Model
    • Hoyt Sector Model
    • Harris and Ullman Multiple-Nuclei Model
    • Galactic City Model (Peripheral Model in our book)
    • Bid-Rent Theory
    • Latin American Model
    • Southeast Asian Model
    • African Model
• Urban Real Estate (Density and Land Use)
• Infilling & Revitalization PPT
• Infrastructure Defined & Mapped PPT
• Community Design 101
  • Neighborhood Identity Brainstorm 
  • Identity of a Place Representation 1: Welcome to Nashville
  • Identity of a Place 2: The Nashville you haven't seen on "Nashville"
  • What is Community Design?
  • Transect Story Maps
    • Neighborhood Design Comparisons (and sample work) 
    • Rural
    • Suburban
    • Urban
    • Downtown
    • Map Legends (for all four transects)
  • The Complete Street: Theory and Practice
  • Be a Street Designer
  • StoryMap Assignment (assignment - choose ONE StoryMap to read - write 3 paragraphs: 1. summarize article, 2. what did you learn? be specific, 3. personal connection/reaction)
    
    • The Lines that Shape Our Cities
    • The Age of Megacities
    • The Human Reach
    • Urban Africa
  • Neighborhood Walk
    • Map Annotation Guide
    • Map Drawing Guide
    • Neighborhood Analysis Guide (each student will be assigned a category)
    • Neighborhood Analysis Map
• Redlining in Memphis
• Ta-Nehisi Coates on how we created the ghetto, from Bill Moyers interview
• Blockbusting article
• Consequences of Gentrification
• Gentrification in Nashville
• Inclusionary Housing Explained website
• Inclusionary Housing student handout
• Mapping the Destruction of Tennessee's African American Neighborhoods