UNIT 6: Cities and Urban Land Use (Chapter 9)
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Have read 288-90; watch Human Planet: Cities

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 World Urbanization Through Time; The First Urban Revolution; work on World Cities; look at Africa map (no labels) (Sub-Saharan Africa)

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 Due: World Cities; Second Urban Revolution; X-Ray Earth (selected scenes)

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 Primate Cities & the Rank-Size Rule; begin CPT Mini-Project

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Formative 6.1 (Guide 2); Central Place Theory; work on CPT Mini-Project
Read 291-98; guide1; video (1) Read 298-304; guide1; video (2); work on World Cities 304-06 (up to Central Place Theory); guide2; video (3) Read 306-08; guide2, video (4) Read 308-09; guide2; video (5); 309-10;
guide3; video (6)

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Urban Function & Growth; Functional Zonation; City Models (Concentric Zone & Sector); Bid-Rent Theory

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City Models (Multiple Nuclei, Peripheral & Urban Realms); Edge Cities

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The Changing American City & the Borchert Epochs 		7
Ranking Urban Centers 		8
Half Day; work on Transportation and Urban Growth (questions); CPT Mini-Project
Fill in the guide3 (up through Edge Cities); video (7) Read Transportation and Urban Growth (questions); finish, guide3, video (8); watch scene from Cars (NNN)
 Read 311 ("Modeling Cities of the Global Periphery and Semi-Periphery"); guide4, video (9) Read 326-27; guide4, video (10) Read 311-17 (skip "The Southeast Asian City"), 326-28; guide5, video (11)

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Due: answers to Transportation and Urban Growth (questions); CPT Mini-Project; City Models in the Periphery and Semi-Periphery;
Bright Lights, Big Cities

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Map Quiz: Sub-Saharan Africa; Cities in the Global Core and Wealthier Semi-Peripheral States; Globalization

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Urban Trends Across the United States

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Review for Test

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Test: Urban Geography; Objective only

Read 317-25; guide6 Read 329-31; guide6; video (12) Review for test review

Study for Test

Read 346-53; guide; video (1)


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