AP © Human Geography
Unit 7: Urban Geography & Environment
Monday March 3rd- Wednesday April 9th
95 pages of reading
Free Response Test: 04.08.14
Multiple Choice Test: 04.09.14
VII . Cities and Urban Land Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13–17%
A . Development and character of cities
1 . Origin of cities; site and situation characteristics
2 . Forces driving urbanization
3 . Borchert’s epochs of urban transportation development
4 . World cities and megacities
5 . Suburbanization processes
B . Models of urban hierarchies: reasons for the distribution and size of cities
1 . Gravity model
2 . Christaller’s central place theory
3 . Rank-size rule
4 . Primate cities
C . Models of internal city structure and urban development: strengths and
limitations of models
1 . Burgess concentric zone model
2 . Hoyt sector model
3 . Harris and Ullman multiple nuclei model
4 . Galactic city model
5 . Models of cities in Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East,
sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia
D . Built environment and social space
1 . Types of residential buildings
2 . Transportation and utility infrastructure
3 . Political organization of urban areas
4 . Urban planning and design (e .g ., gated communities, New Urbanism,
and smart-growth policies)
5 . Census data on urban ethnicity, gender, migration, and socioeconomic
status
6 . Characteristics and types of edge cities: boomburgs, greenfields, uptowns
E . Contemporary urban issues
1 . Housing and insurance discrimination, and access to food stores
2 . Changing demographic, employment, and social structures
3 . Uneven development, zones of abandonment, disamenity, and
gentrification
4 . Suburban sprawl and urban sustainability problems: land and energy use,
cost of expanding public education services, home financing and debt
crises
5 . Urban environmental issues: transportation, sanitation, air and water
quality, remediation of brownfields, and farmland protection
If You Learn Only Seven Things In This Chapter:
1) All cities fit within Christaller’s central place theory. Some cities have greater ranges and need bigger
thresholds. Range is the maximum distance people are willing to travel to get a product or service. Threshold
is the minimum number of people needed for a business to operate.
2) There are three basic models of urban structure in the United States. The concentric zone theory, developed
by Burgess, describes expansion in concentric rings around the central business district. The sector model,
developed by Hoyt, suggests that growth extends along transportation routes. The multiple nuclei model,
developed by Ullman and Harris, suggests that growth is independent of the central business district.
3) Different continents have cities with different characteristics. European cities are older and more historic.
Asian cities are usually built on ports for trade. Latin American cities possess a spine of high-quality housing
extending from the central business district. African cities have three separate central business districts,
including a colonial central business district, contemporary central business district, and a market zone. Islamic
cities are focused on the principles of the religion.
4) Cities have problems such as race relations, traffic, water delivery, pollution, and urban sprawl that can
negatively affect their inhabitants unless handled appropriately by local government.
5) The three world cities are New York City, London, and Tokyo. Other cities are rated and ranked based on
their economic, cultural, and political importance to the areas they serve.
6) The hierarchy of cities from smallest to largest is hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis, and megalopolis.
The largest metropolis int eh United State is New York City with over 18 million people in its metropolitan
areas.
7) Primate cities have at least twice the population of the next-largest city in the same country. London, Paris,
and Buenos Aires are examples of primate cities.
Date
Monday
Day 1
March 3
Tuesday
Day 2
March 4
In-Class Activities
Test Correction Day
Homework
Fouberg 274-288
A Look at the Ukraine
Clicker Check
Fouberg 288-290
Getis 381-387
Wednesday
Day 3
March 5
Thursday
Day 4
March 6
Friday
Day 5
March 7
Monday
Day 6
March 10
Tuesday
Day 7
March 11
Wednesday
Day 8
March 12
Thursday
Day 9
March 13
Revisiting Site & Situation &
Hearths
Work on notecards
Economic Base of a City
MCT Re-Takes (During Lunch)
Fouberg 290-296
Getis 388-397
Work on notecards
Friday
Day 10
March 14
Spring Break
Monday
Day 11
March 24
Tuesday
Day 12
March 25
Wednesday
Day 13
March 26
Thursday
Day 14
March 27
Friday
Day 15
Reminder: (This is the day the reading is
assigned, it is “due” Thursday. When
assigned on Thursday, it is “due” on Tuesday.
Vocab Quizzes only have “due” readings in
them)
Vocab Quiz
Notecards Due
Christaller’s Central Place
Theory
Work on notecards
Christaller’s Central Place
(cont)
Clicker Check
The Urban Hierarchy, Rank
Size Rule, Primate City, and
World Cities
World Cities (cont.)
Clicker Check
Unit 6 FRT Re-Takes (During
Lunch)
Vocab Quiz
Notecards Due
Fouberg 296-303
Getis 407-415
Work on notecards
Work on notecards
Spring Break
English STAAR
Spring Break
Work on notecards
Patterns of Land Use,
Concentric Zone, Sector Model,
Multiple Nuclei.
Clicker Check
Patterns…cont. Differences in
Core, Periphery, and SemiPeriphery
International Cities
Clicker Check
Fouberg 315-317
Work on notecards
Vocab Quiz
Notecards Due
Work on notecards
Fouberg 304-314
Getis 398-404
Work on notecards
Work on notecards
Work on notecards
Fouberg 418-426
Work on notecards
March 28
Monday
Day 16
March 31
Tuesday
Day 17
April 1
Wednesday
Day 18
April 2
Thursday
Day 19
April 3
Friday
Day 20
April 4
Monday
Day 21
April 7
Tuesday
Day 22
April 8
Wednesday
Day 23
April 9
Globalization & Environment
Work on notecards
Globalization & Environment
Clicker Check
Fouberg 427-440
Work on notecards
Natural Disasters & Settlement
Patterns
Work on notecards
Climate Change
Work on notecards
Clicker Check
Vocab Quiz
Notecards Due
South & Central Asia Quiz
FRT
All Unit 7 Quiz Re-Takes During
1/2st half of lunch
MCT
Vocabulary
acid rain
acropolis
agora
agricultural surplus
agricultural village
aquifers
atmosphere
basic sector
blockbusting
central business district
central city
central place theory
city
commercialization
concentric zone model
deforestation
disamenity sector
economic base
edge cities
environmental stress
first urban revolution
Forum
functional zonation
gated communities
gentrification
global warming
Griffin-Ford model
hinterland
Huang He and Wei
hydrologic cycle
Indus River Valley
informal economy
leadership class
McGee model
McMansions
megalopolis
Mesoamerica
Mesopotamia
metropolitan area
multiple-nuclei model
multiplier effect
new urbanism
Nile River Valley
nonbasic sector
oxygen cycle
peripheral model
primate city
rank-size rule
redlining
renewable resources
River Valleys
sector model
shantytowns
site
site
situation
situation
social stratification
spaces of consumption
suburb
suburb
suburbanization
Sunbelt phenomenon
tear-downs
town
trade area
urban
urban hierarchy
urban influence zone
urban morphology
urban realm
urban sprawl
urbanized area
world city
zone
zoning laws