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APHG Unit 7

Unit focus

Unit 7 Enduring understandings - what you need to know & understand

  • The form, function, and size of urban settlements are constantly changing.
  • Models help to understand the distribution and size of cities.
  • Models of internal city structure and urban development provide a framework for urban analysis.
  • Built landscapes and social space reflect the attitudes and values of a population.
  • Urban areas face economic, social, political, cultural, and environmental challenges.
Source: CollegeBoard AP Human Geography Course Description 2015.
Unit Concepts: Cities and Urban Land Use
The focus will be models of cities in different parts of the world; issues facing cities today in different regions: rural-to-urban migration, suburbanization, counterurbanization, gentrification, residential segregation, sustainability, sprawl, green belts.  
A. Development and character of cities
1. Origin of cities
2. Rural–urban migration and urban growth
3. Global cities and megacities
4. Suburbanization and edge cities
B. Models of urban systems
1. Rank-size rule
2. Central place theory
3. Gravity model
C. Models of internal city structure
1. Concentric zone model
2. Sector model
3. Multiple-nuclei model
4. Changing employment mix
5. Changing demographic and social structures
6. Uneven development, ghettoization, and gentrification
D. Built environment and social space
1. Housing
2. Transportation and infrastructure
3. Political organization of urban areas
4. Urban planning and design
5. Patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status
Targeted Learning Activities
Key Learning Activities
Map Singapore, indicating functional use, and Singapore's resemblance to any of the models mentioned above. Does Singapore experience ethnic neighborhoods? If so, where, and if not, why not?
Assessment Strategies
Unit test including MCQ and FRQ

Resources for study & preparation


APHG TextBOOK resources

Fouberg (9th)
  • CH 9 Urban Geography            (Pages 274 to 318)​
Rubenstein (10th) 
  • CH 13 Urban Patterns                (Pages 404 to 437)
Wood (2nd)        
Unit 7  Cities and Urban Land Use            (Pages 194 to 226)

presentation Slides

  • Urban Services Google Slides (Unit 6 & Unit 7 combined)
  • Unit 7 Urbanization - Lecture Slides
  • ​Borchert’s Epochs
  • ​Food Deserts
  • Urbanization - Review Notes (Slides)
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Flashcards & study guides

Vocabulary Flashcards (Quizlet):
  • Fouberg Chapter 9 - Urban Geography​​​ (56 terms)
  • Unit 7 Cities & Urban Land Use (57 terms)
Study Guides/Reading Guides
  • List of terms to study
  • Unit 7 Vocabulary, Defined with examples
  • Unit 7 Concepts - Must Know!
  • Review Questions - Worksheet 
  • Unit 7 - Pre-Study Guide (notes on concepts)
  • Unit 7 Study Guide Questions (based on Fouberg, Rubenstein & Wood)
  • Unit 7 Review Guide
  • Unit 7 Study Guide Review Questions --more questions to review
  • Rubenstein CH. 12 Reading Guide: Services & Settlements
  • Rubenstein CH. 13 - Urban Patterns - Reading Guide
  • Formative FRQ Hints - Christaller’s CPT
  • ​Formative MCQ Hints
  • ​SUMMATIVE FRQ Hints
  • ​SUMMATIVE MCQ Hints

Websites

  • ThoughtCo - Urban Geography Review
  • CNT: Urban Sustainability​
  • Interactive Map: England's Greenbelts (Telegraph)
  • Ending Food Deserts in South Dallas

Misc.  news Articles, etc. 

  • ​​​Tomorrow's Cities: Singapore's Plans for a Smart Nation (BBC, April 2017)

Practice Quizzes & Tests

Unit 7 Review Kahoot!​

Videos

Tutorial videos (Rubenstein Chapter Overviews Provided by Andrew Patterson Educational Channel)​​
-- Good for Review --or-- If you Were Absent from Class: 
  • Chapter 13 Key Issue 1 - Urban Patterns: Why do services cluster downtown?
  • Chapter 13 Key Issue 2 - Urban Patterns: Where are people distributed in urban areas?
  • ​​Chapter 13 Key Issue 3 - Urban Patterns: Why are urban areas expanding?
  • Chapter 13 Key Issue 4: Why do cities face challenges?
Other Useful Videos:
  • What is a city? (The Atlantic)
  • ​Why Cities are Where They Are (Wendover)
  • Primary Models of Urban Growth
  • Urban Planning Models (U.S. focus)
  • Latin American City Model​
  • TEDEd: Urbanization and the Future of Cities
  • How to Make an Attractive City (School of Life)
  • TEDTalk: Peter Calthorpe: 7 Principles for for Building Better Cities (addresses urban sprawl & sustainable city planning)
  • TEDTalk: James Kunstler: "How bad architecture wrecked cities"
  • Why Cities Should Plant More Trees (Vox)
  • Where is the Worst Traffic in the World? (NowThisWorld)
  • How to Fix Traffic Forever (Wendover)
Urbanization Case Studies:
  • U.S.: The Failure of Suburbia (James Kunstler)​
  • U.S.: Left Behind America (PBS Frontline)
  • U.S.: Chicago's Geography Advantage (City Beautiful)
  • U.S.: Why Did We Build High Rise Public Housing (City Beautiful)
  • U.S.: The Abandoned Skyscrapers of Detroit (The Telegraph)
  • U.S.: Millions of Americans live in Food Deserts (ABC News)
  • U.S.: No Easy Answers - Food Deserts in Washington, D.C. (NPR)
  • U.S.: The Rise and Fall of the American Shopping Mall (PBSNewsHour)
  • U.S.: McMansions : The Houses that  People Love to Hate (Washington Post)
  • U.S. Pros/Cons of Gentrification (NowThisWorld)
  • U.S. TEDTalk: What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them? (issue of fair access to housing for urban poor--told from the perspective/voice of urban poor)
  • Smart Cities: Solving Urban Problems Using Technology
  • South Korea: Songdo, Aerotropolis, the Future Smart City
  • India's Smart City Plan & What it Means for Indians (Vox)
  • China's Clone Cities: Paris, London, Jackson Hole (ABC News)
  • China: China's Empty Cities (SBS Dateline)
  • China: Inside Hong Kong's Cage Homes (Vox)
  • Brazil: Inside Rio's Fevalas (Vox)
  • Lagos: Africa's Fastest Growing Megacity (challenges & plans)
  • Lagos: Africa's Model Mega City​ (this video only shows the positives of the planned future--not current challenges the city faces)
  • Spain: Superblocks: How Barcelona is Taking City Streets Back (Vox)
  • Bangladesh: The World's Fastest Growing Megacity: Dakha (The Daily Conversation)
​Interesting for "edutainment" value:​​
  • Top 10 Futuristic Cities Being Built Right Now
  • 500 year history ride in 47 Seconds (Cities)​
  • Time Lapse of Urban Sprawl - Cities across the world
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