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Chapter 13: Urban Patterns


URBAN UNIT VOCABULARY Deblij Ch. 10 and 12 || ===Read Rubenstein, Ch. 12, section 1-2=== || AP Exam Review- Chapter One || || ===Read Rubenstein, Ch. 12, section 5=== || || ====== || Megacities links from Seth Dixon-Scoopit The Growth of Megacities Largest US Cities Largest World Cities 2011 Largest Megacities and conurbations The Rise of Megacities Interactive Megacities Infographic || **After School Review: AP Exam Review Chapter Two-**
 * ==**Date**== || ==**Subject**== || ==**Homework**== ||
 * === Monday, April 4 === || Unit Test Multiple Choice- Rubenstein Chapters 9 and 11
 * === Tuesday, April 5 === || Cities in History- PPT Part 1- Ancient World Cities- MesoAmerica || ===Read Rubenstein, Ch. 12, section 3-4===
 * === Wednesday, April 6 === || Cities in History- PPT Part 1- Ancient World Cities- MesoAmerica
 * === Thursday, April 7 === || Cities in History PPT Part 2- Ancient World Cities Greece and Rome || ===Read Rubenstein, Ch. 12, section 6=== ||
 * === Fri., April 8 === || Cities in History PPT Part 2- Ancient World Cities Greece and Rome
 * === Monday, April 11 === || [[file:Top 10 Cities Mapping.doc]] || **Listen to Radiolab: Cities**
 * Urbanized TED Talk** ||
 * === Tuesday, April 12 === || Megacities Argworld B
 * Population and Migration**

Read Rubenstein, Ch. 12, section 7
Andrew Marrs Megacities Episode One ||
 * === Wednesday, April 13 === || MegaCities- Urban Hierarchy- Christallers Central Place Theory- Primate Cities-
 * Top 25 Economically Powerful Cities Ranking
 * Global Cities Index
 * 50 most densely Populated Cities
 * Comparing Urban Footprints
 * America's fastest Shrinking Cities || ===After School Movie: Slumdog Millionaire===

Read Rubenstein, Ch. 12, section 8
Andrew Marrs Megacities Episode Two || Central Place Theory CPT in Depth Chicago Metro Area statistics || ===Read Rubenstein, Ch. 12, section 9=== Andrew Marrs Megacities Episode 3- Sustaining the City || ||  ||
 * === Thursday, April 14 === || Kuby Market Areas and Baseball
 * === Friday, April 15 === || Site and Situation Lab

Urban Vocab #1 Urban Vocab #2
 * === Monday, April 18 === || == VOCABULARY QUIZ ON CH. 12 ==

Urban Models- US
|| ===Read Rubenstein, Ch. 13, section 1-3=== AP Exam Review- Chapter One ||
 * === Tuesday, April 19 === || === Urban Models- World===

Urban Models Overview Burgess and Hoyt
Urban Models in Latin America Good Models overview- start at slide 15 Why build higher? || ===Read Rubenstein, Ch. 13, section 4-5=== Watch the following Videos: [|Power of Place 24: Cityscapes, Suburban Sprawl- Watch the section on Chicago] Portland:Quest for the Livable City Sprawlanta || How to make an attractive city Reclaiming the city- Vox Video- Making an attractive city How highways wrecked American Cities || ===**After school Movie: Radiant City**===
 * === Wed. April 20 === || Urban Models- US City Maps comparison

Read Rubenstein, Ch. 13, section 6-7
|| Read The Future of Chicago: Going Forward and answer question The Most and Least Sprawling American Cities Suburban Housing Patterns from the Air Onion article on Schaumburg Man says it all The 9 worst designed cities in the world || ===Read Rubenstein, Ch. 13, section 8-9=== Cleveland: Confronting Decline Curitiba: How a Brazilian City revolutionized urban planning Bogata: Building a Sustainable City The Medellin Miracle Top Ten Cycling Cities Chicago's Divvy System Overview China goes back to bikes || Superblocks- Barcelona ||  || New Urbanism- CBS Ottawa Parking Review York & Fig- Gentrification in LA media type="youtube" key="5nyDbHi1YQE" width="560" height="315" ||  || Gentrification in Chicago 2 There Goes the Neighborhood- WBEZ Series There Goes the Neighborhood There Goes the Neighborhood Data || There Goes the neighborhood from WNYC- Listen to Episode 3 at least ||
 * === Thurs., April 21 === || Urban Sprawl-
 * === Fri., April 22 === || `London Underground for Bikes======Why the Streets of Copenhagen and Amsterdam Look So Different From Ours======
 * === Monday, April 25 === || New Urbanism and Gentrification
 * === Tuesday, April 26 === || Gentrification in Chicago
 * === Wednesday, April 27 === ||  || ===Movie: Urbanized=== ||
 * === Thursday, April 28 === ||  || Study for Urban Test- Rubenstein Ch. 12 & 13 ||
 * === Fri., May 29 === || Urban Test- Rubenstein Ch. 12 & 13 ||  ||


 * ==Urban Patterns Extras== || ==Urban Patterns Assignments== ||
 * ===Power of Place===
 * [|Power of Place 23: Brazil the Sleeping Giant]
 * [|Power of Place 24: Cityscapes, Suburban Sprawl]

Articles
Yahoo! Real Estate 1/14/11 Cities as social networks -  Oct 2011 TIME Magazine 10/11/2011 - Grist 11/29/2011 - Robert Kunzig National Geographic 12/2011 Cities are sustainable and urban density doesn't mean "overcrowding" - MSNBS Today News 12/19/2011 Deindustrialization to revival in Benton Harbor, MI - NYTimes 12/15/2011 What is a suburb? - CNN 12/22/2011 New Megacity developing -  2/25/2011 The "Aerotropolis" - Wall Street Journal 2/26/2011 The Decline of Malls - Reason.com 4/2011 - The Atlantic 9/15/2011 Megacities - Natl Geographic -  NYTimes 11/25/2011 - NYTimes 9/3/2011 - Witherspoon Institute 7/11/2011 - Washington Post 7/28/2011
 * Top 13 small cities in Illinois
 * Urban wealth division in Mexico
 * 50 most densely Populated Cities
 * ==== **Selling Chicago as a Global City** ====
 * **Global city- Chicago in China**
 * [|No McMansions For Millenials]
 * [|Where The Skills Are]
 * [|The Ten Biggest Megacities of Today]
 * [|The Next Small Thing: Sustainable Neighborhoods]
 * [|The City Solution]
 * Smart Cities adapting to the developing world- The Guardian
 * [|Seattle Officials Vote To Ban Plastic Bags]
 * New ruses for old buildings in Chicago
 * [|Now That Factories Are Closed, It's Tee Time]
 * ======Why the Streets of Copenhagen and Amsterdam Look So Different From Ours======
 * 19th Century Cities Compared to the Modern Ones
 * The megacity noone has heard of.
 * [|Paradise Mislaid: Suburbia All Over The Maps]
 * [|The Pearl River Megacity (China)]
 * [|Cities of the Sky]
 * Retailing: Birth, Death, and Shopping
 * [|Malls of a Certain Age]
 * [|The 25 Most Economically Powerful Cities]
 * [|Cities: Challenges For Humanity]
 * [|Metropolis Now: The World's Top Global Cities]
 * [|The Death Of The Fringe Suburb]
 * [|One Path to Better Jobs: More Density in Cities]
 * [|Case For Urbanism & Against Sprawl]
 * Bikes in China- Financial Times
 * [|‘Gentrification’ Covers Black & White Buyers]

Podcasts
(15 Minutes long) - Freakonomics 2/11/2011 > There Goes the Neighborhood- WBEZ Series
 * Why Cities Rock
 * [|Tysons Corner: The Building of an American City] [|The First Edge City - Washington Post 9/24/2011]
 * Rise- San Francisco and Ocean rising
 * Chicago and climate change
 * This American Life- House Rules
 * Portland- A Tale of Two Cities
 * The Transformation of Paris
 * The Future of Cities
 * York & Fig- Gentrification in LA

Videos
Leftist view of racial issues & industrial collapse of a city
 * Urbanization and the evolution of Cities
 * Portland:Quest for the Livable City
 * Sprawlanta
 * Megacities- Sustaining the City
 * Megacities- Cities on the Edge
 * Megacities- Living in the City
 * New York
 * Hong Kong
 * Mumbai
 * London Megacity
 * Lagos- Africa's Fastest Growing Megacity
 * Detroit On The Edge
 * Kennedy Smith on Downtowns and how we got to where we are today
 * [|James Kunstler Dissects Suburbia (TED)]
 * Retrofitting the Suburbs (TED)
 * The Stroad
 * [|Alex Steffen: Shareable Future of Cities (TED)]
 * [|New York: Before the city (TED)]
 * NYC Bike wars
 * Radiant City- Suburban Homes
 * [|Stewart Brand On Squatter Cities (TED)]
 * [|Robert Neuwirth On "Shadow Cities" (TED)]
 * [|Majora Carter: Greening the Ghetto]
 * [|TED: The Power of Cities Page]
 * [|Making Sense of Place: Phoenix, the Urban Desert]
 * [|Takeover of Benton Harbor MI (Rachel Maddow)]
 * The World Cup and Brazil's cities/Development
 * [|How Close To A Train Track Can You Setup A Market?]
 * [|Scene from "Cars" - Our Town]
 * Chonqing- Fastest growing city in the world
 * BBC Report on Chonqing

Web Links
Barcelona Field Studies Centre
 * Atlantic Cities
 * Scoop it Urban Links
 * Project Restoration
 * New York's High Line
 * Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
 * [|The Places We Live (Squatter Settlements)]
 * [|MEDC Urban Models] ;
 * [|NY Times Mapping America: Every City, Every Block]
 * Best and Worst Commutes
 * 10 Most Segregated Urban Areas
 * Malls of a Certain Age
 * Urban Sprawl Images
 * Onion article on Schaumburg Man says it all
 * How Shantytowns Rise Up
 * [|If Cities Had Kept Their Original Names...]
 * [|Interactive Map: Urban Growth (BBC)]
 * Top 25 Economically Powerful Cities Ranking
 * [|Global Cities Index] || ===Kuby CH 9, Activities 1 & 2===
 * [|Activity 9.2: Market Area Geography]

Kuby CH 10, Activities 1 & 2

 * [|Activity 10.2: Field Study]

Kuby CH 11, Activities 1 & 2

 * [|Activity 11.1: Transportation & Urban Growth]

Freakonomic Podcast
invention, and more sustainable than rural living
 * Read & respond to this radio program and the idea that cities are our best

Scoop it! Urban links

|| Rehousing America Slideshow Rehousing America Las Vegas Timelapse- Sprawl in action US Steel Southworks Redevelopment