Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes
6.1 Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes
6.2 Cities Across the World
6.3 Cities and Globalization
6.4 The Size and Distribution of Cities
6.5 The Internal Structure of Cities
Objectives
Readings
Activities
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Explain the processes that initiate and drive urbanization and suburbanization.
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Explain the processes that initiate and drive urbanization and suburbanization.
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Explain how cities embody processes of globalization.
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Identify the different urban concepts such as hierarchy, interdependence, relative size, and spacing that are useful for explaining the distribution, size, and interaction of cities.
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Explain the internal structure of cities using various models and theories.
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Human Geography: Chapters
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Ethel Wood: Unit 7
​The Story of a City​
Megacity Tokyo
Megacity Cairo
6.6 Density and Land Use
6.7 Infrastructure
6.8 Urban Sustainability
6.9 Urban Data
Objectives
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Explain how low-, medium-, and high-density housing characteristics represent different patterns of residential land use.
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Explain how a city’s infrastructure relates to local politics, society, and the environment.
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Identify the different urban design initiatives and practices.
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Explain the effects of different urban design initiatives and practices.
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Explain how qualitative and quantitative data are used to show the causes and effects of geographic change within urban areas.
Activities
How are cities organized?
6.10 Challenges of Urban Changes
6.11 Challenges of Urban Sustainability
Objectives
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Explain the causes and effects of geographic change within urban areas.
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Describe the effectiveness of different attempts to address urban sustainability challenges.