Course Description:  The
purpose of the AP Human Geography  course is to introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped
human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Human Geography incorporates the concepts and methods associated with several of the
disciplines within the social sciences, including Economics, Geography, History, and Sociology. The course topics include the following:

 

 

Course Website:
http://www.nhvweb.net/vhs/socialstudies/mgalal/

 

All
announcements, assignments, and homework can be found at the above website by
clicking the “AP Human Geography”

 

 

AP Exam: The AP Human Geography Exam will be
administered May 15,2015. Students are expected, but not required, to take the
AP Exam. Students will be updated further on exam details during the semester.

 

 

 

 

Notebooks: Students are
required to maintain a separate and specific AP Human Geography binder. Students
are asked to use a binder because all class notes and handouts will be three
punched for binders.

 

 

 

 

Grading Policy:

 

 

Students
will be assessed in a variety of manners. Marking period grades are determined
according to a total points system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tests: Tests grades
constitute the most significant portion of the marking period grade and will be
comprised of the following:

 

 

unit tests based on the AP Exam format
with 35 multiple choice and one free-response question

 

written
assignments such as essays and article reviews

 

group
projects

 

Quest
assignment.

 

Field
Studies count as test grades. Field studies are short survey or writing
assignments that require students to observe and comment on elements of Human
Geography in their local community.

 

 

 

 

Quizzes: Quizzes will be given regularly to
assess student progress as we proceed through the course of study. Quizzes vary
in length and can be given during  any part of the class period. Any “Do
Now” at the beginning of class counts as a quiz grade (points are generally 2
pts per question).

 

 

 

Homework: Daily homework
assignments will be announced in class and will be posted daily at:

http://www.nhvweb.net/vhs/socialstudies/mgalal/

 

 

Students are
responsible for maintaining pace with the class and for checking the class
website for assignments.

 

 

 

Semester Grades: Semester
grades will be determined according to the calculation and grading scales set by
the x High School District.

 

 

 

 

Absences and Missed Work:
It is the student’s responsibility to make arrangements with the teacher to make
up missed assignments / grades due to absences. Make up arrangements can be made
via e-mail and students can make up missed work in the morning or after school.
Upon return to school from an absence, students have one day to make
arrangements to make up work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Classroom Conduct: AP
students are expected and required to arrive prepared and promptly each day for
class and conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous, and tolerant manner as
per the policies of the x High School District. Tardy and disruptive students
will receive written remedial assignments and/or detention. Further, disruptive
and disrespectful students may be referred to the school administration for
disciplinary action.

 

 

 

 

Parent – Teacher Contact:
Parents are encouraged to check the teacher web site and keep up with their
student’s progress and assignments. Progress reports will be sent home
periodically during each grading period. Parents with question and concerns
should contact the teacher at x.

 

 

 

 

Plagiarism: Any student
work plagiarized in part or whole will be given a grade of zero.

 

 

 

 

Study Tips / Resources:

 

 

 

 

1)
Visit the course
website daily to keep up with the class:

http://www.nhvweb.net/vhs/socialstudies/mgalal/

 

 

2)     Complete
all assigned readings prior to the date they are to be discussed in class.

 

 

3)
Prepare intensively
for the AP Exam beginning in March.

 

 

4)     Keep
all notes, handouts, articles, and returned work in your binder. They will come
in handy during exam prep sessions.

 

 

5)     Attend
after school the exam prep sessions in April and May.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If
the teacher needs to alter or amend any of these policies as the need arises
students and parents will be informed via the course website.

 

 

 

 

Course Planner: The AP
Human Geography course will run sixteen weeks from the first day of school until
winter break.  Detailed plans for
each week will be distributed in class and posted on the web as the course
progresses. All readings are to be completed prior to the first class of each
week. There will be a unit test at the end of each unit as well as a variety of
quizzes and written assignments within each unit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit I – Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives

 

 

 

 

–
Diamond, Guns Germs and
Steel

 

 

–
Diamond Paper

 

 

–
Rubenstein,
Chapter 1

 

 

–
Kuby, Chapter 3

 

 

 

 

 Unit
II – Population

 

 

 

 

–
Rubenstein Chapters 2-3

 

 

–
Kuby, Chapters 4-5

 

 

–
Population Field Study

 

 

 

 

Unit III – Cultural Patterns and Processes

 

 

 

 

–
Rubenstein, Chapters 4-7

 

 

–
Kuby, Chapter 2

 

 

–
Religion Field Study

 

 

 

 

 Unit
IV – Political Organization of Space

 

 

 

 

–
Rubenstein Chapter 8

 

 

–
Kuby, Chapters 12-13

 

 

–
Political Geography
Project

 

 

 

 

Unit V – Agricultural and Rural Land Use

 

 

 

 

–
Rubenstein, Chapters 10,
14

 

 

–
Kuby, Chapter 8

 

 

–
Agricultural Field Study

 

 

 

 

 

Unit VI – Industrialization and Economic
Development

 

 

 

–
Rubenstein, Chapters 9,
11, 14

 

 

–
Kuby, Chapter 16, 7, 14

 

 

 

 

Unit VII – Cities and Urban Land Use

 

 

 

 

–
Rubenstein, Chapters 12,
13

 

 

–
Kuby, Chapters 9-11

 

 

–
Urban Field Study

 

 

 

 

May 1 – May 14: AP Prep Exam Prep and Review

 

 

 

 

May ________: AP Human Geography Exam

 

 

 

 

 

Learning / Teaching Unit

 

 

 

 

 

AP Human Geography Unit I
– Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives

 

 

AP Outline Statement as Given in Course Description

 

 

 

I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5-10%)

 

 

A.
Geography as a field of inquiry

 

B.
Evolution of key geographical concepts and models associated with
notable geographers

 

C.
Key concepts underlying the geographic perspective: location, space,
place, scale, pattern, regionalization, and globalization

 

D.
Key geographical skills

 

1.
How to use and think about maps

 

2.
How to understand and interpret the implications of associations of
phenomena in places

 

3.
How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships
among patterns and processes

 

4.
How to define regions

 

5.
How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places

 

E.
New geographic technologies, such as GIS and GPS

 

F.
Sources of geographical ideas and date, the field, census data

 

 

 

Chapters and Textbook Pages

 

 

 

Rubenstein,  Chapter 1

 

Kuby, Chapter 3

 

 

 

Key Concepts and Skills

 

 

 

1.
HOW DO GEOGRAPHERS ADDRESS WHERE
THINGS ARE?

 

2.

WHY IS
EACH POINT ON EARTH UNIQUE?

 

 

3.
WHY ARE DIFFERENT PLACES SIMILAR?

 

Key Terms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Changing attributes of place (built landscape, sequent occupance)

 

 

Cultural attributes (cultural landscape)

 

Density (arithmetic, physiological)

 

Diffusion (hearth, relocation, expansion, hierarchical, contagious,
stimulus)

 

Direction (absolute, relative)

 

Dispersion/concentration (dispersed/scattered, clustered/agglomerated)

 

 

Distance (absolute, relative)

 

Distribution

 

Environmental determinism

 

Location (absolute, relative, site, situation, place name)

 

 

Pattern (linear, centralized, random)

 

Physical attributes (natural landscape)

 

Possibilism

 

Region (formal/uniform, functional/nodal, perceptual/vernacular)

 

 

Scale (implied degree of generalization)

 

Size

 

 

Spatial (of or pertaining to space on or near Earth’s surface)

 

 

Spatial interaction (accessibility, connectivity, network, distance
decay, friction of distance, time-space compression)

 

Distortion

 

Geographic Information System (GIS)

 

Global Positioning System (GPS)

 

Grid
(North and South Poles, latitude, parallel, equator, longitude,
meridian, prime meridian, international date line)

 

Map
(Maps are the tool most uniquely identified with geography; the ability
to use and interpret maps is an essential geographic skill.)

 

Map
scale (distance on a map relative to distance on Earth)

 

 

Map
types (thematic, statistical, cartogram, dot, choropleth, isoline)

 

 

Mental map

 

Model

 

Projection

 

Remote sensing

 

Time
zones

 

Field Study

 

 

 

None
for this unit

 

Thinking Geographically

 

 

 

1.
Where would the most desirable places be located? What impacts would
this population increase cause?

 

2.
Discuss natural events versus natural disasters.
What about humans who choose to live in harm’s way?

 

3.
Display the front page of your local newspaper.
Approach each story from a geographer’s perspective.

 

 

 

Topic Projects

 

 

(To
accompany Rubenstein, in class PowerPoint presentations, and unit study
guides)

 

 

 

 

1.
Describe the site and situation of New York City, using the map
and photograph in Figure 1-6.

 

2.
Describe the site and situation of Singapore, using the maps and
photograph in Figure 1-7.

 

3.
In Figure 1-6, what is the distance between the New York Stock
Exchange and City Hall?

 

4.
In Figure 1-7, what is the distance between the town of Johor
Baharu and Singapore’s Paya Lebar Airport?

 

5.
In Figure 1-19,
what is the distance between the home of the Atlanta Braves and the
Kansas City Royals?

 

 

6.     In
Figure 1-15 what is the distance between Rotterdam and Amsterdam?

 

 

7.     In
Figure 1-19, what is the approximate area of the state of Colorado?

 

 

8.
One inch on the map equals what distance on the ground in Figure
1-6? In Figure 1-15?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning / Teaching Unit

 

 

 

 

 

AP Human Geography Unit II –
Population

 

 

AP Outline Statement as Given in Course Description

 

 

 

II. Population (13-17%)

 

 

A.
Geographical analysis of population

 

1.
Density, distribution, and scale

 

2.
Consequences of various densities and distributions

 

3.
Patterns of composition: age, sex, race, and ethnicity

 

4.
Population and natural hazards: past, present, and future

 

B.
Population Growth

 

1.
Historical trends and projections

 

2.
Theories on population growth, including the Demographic Model

 

3.
Patterns of fertility, mortality, and health

 

4.
Regional variations of demographic transitions

 

5.
Effects of population policies

 

C.
Population   Movement

 

1.
Push and pull

 

2.
Major voluntary and involuntary actions

 

3.
Migration selectivity

 

4.
Short-term, local movement, and activity space

 

 

 

Chapters and Textbook Pages

 

 

 

Rubenstein Chapters 2-3

 

Kuby, Chapters 4-5

 

Population Field Study

 

 

 

Key Concepts and Skills

 

 

 

1.
WHERE IS THE WORLD’S POPULATION DISTRIBUTED?

 

2.
WHERE HAS THE WORLD’S POPULATION INCREASED?

 

3. WHY
IS POPULATION INCREASING AT DIFFERENT RATES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES?

 

4. WHY
MIGHT THE WORLD FACE AN OVERPOPULATION PROBLEM?

 

5.
WHY DO PEOPLE MIGRATE?

 

6.
WERE ARE MIGRANTS DISTRIBUTED?

 

7.
WHY DO MIGRANTS FACE OBSTACLES?

 

8.
WHY DO PEOPLE MIGRATE WITHIN A COUNTRY?

 

Key Terms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Age
distribution

 

Carrying capacity

 

Cohort

 

Demographic equation

 

Demographic momentum

 

Demographic regions

 

Demographic Transition model

 

Dependency ratio

 

Diffusion of fertility control

 

Disease diffusion

 

Doubling time

 

Ecumene

 

Epidemiological Transition model

 

Gendered space

 

Infant mortality rate

 

J-curve

 

Maladaptation

 

Malthus, Thomas

 

Mortality

 

Natality

 

Neo-Malthusian

 

Overpopulation

 

Population densities

 

Population distributions

 

Population explosion

 

Population projection

 

Population pyramid

 

Rate
of natural increase

 

S-curve

 

Sex
ratio

 

Standard of living

 

Sustainability

 

Underpopulation

 

Zero
population growth

 

Migration

 

 

Activity space

 

Chain migration

 

Cyclic movement

 

Distance decay

 

Forced

 

Gravity model

 

Internal migration

 

Intervening opportunity

 

Migration patterns

 

•
Intercontinental

 

 

•
Interregional

 

 

•
Rural-urban

 

 

Migratory movement

 

Periodic movement

 

Personal space

 

Place utility

 

Push-pull factors

 

Refugee

 

Space-time prism

 

Step
migration

 

Transhumance

 

Transmigration

 

Voluntary

 

 

 

Field Study

 

 

 

Observe the  following in
your community

 

1)
population
concentrations

 

 

2)
demographic data
(research online)

 

 

3)
regions within
your community

 

 

4)
migrations
patterns

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report your findings in the following formats:

 

a-
map – (1,2,3)

 

 

b-
chart – (2)

 

 

c-

presentation-data outline w/ bullets (1, 2, 3, 4)

 

 

d-
photos or
sketches  (1,2,3,4)

 

 

e-
Study Abstract
(1,2,3,4)

 

 

 

 

Due:
Day of Unit Test

 

 

 

 

 

Thinking Geographically

 

 

 

 

 

1.
Accuracy of actual
population count versus population sampling.
Pros and cons of each.

 

2.
Ask for observations
of human behavior in dense, concentrated urban areas versus sparsely
populated rural areas. Ask students if humans are shaped by their
environment.

 

3.
Do Americans feel a
sense of entitlement regarding resource use? Why do we use more than our
share?

 

4.
Discuss changes in
American culture from baby boomers and the past generation. What about
future generations?

 

5.
Should MDCs be able
to shape population policy in LDCs? Why are birth rates higher in LDCs?

 

6.
Discuss the United States as a nation of immigrants. Have
people’s perceptions

 

 

changed in recent years regarding
this issue?

 

 

7.
What is the impact of out-migration? Is this beneficial or
harmful in areas

 

experiencing population loss?

 

 

8.
What groups settled the local area?
Where did they settle and why?
What are the

 

local spatial patterns?

 

 

9.
Push factors as motivation to leave an area.
What is the impact on population

 

growth?

 

 

10.
Should workers be brought into the U.S. to perform low skilled
jobs or should the  jobs be
exported?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning / Teaching Unit

 

 

 

 

 

AP Human Geography Unit III – Cultural Patterns and
Processes

 

 

AP Outline Statement as Given in Course Description

 

 

 

III. Cultural Patterns and Processes (13-17%)

 

 

A.
Concepts of culture

 

1.
Traits

 

2.
Diffusion

 

3.
Acculturation

 

4.
Cultural regions

 

B.
Cultural Differences

 

1.
Language

 

2.
Religion

 

3.
Ethnicity

 

4.
Gender

 

5.
Popular and folk culture

 

C.
Environmental impact of cultural attitudes and practices

 

D.
Cultural landscapes and cultural identity

 

1.
Values and preferences

 

2.
Symbolic landscapes and sense of place

 

 

 

Chapters and Textbook Pages

 

 

 

Rubenstein Chapters 4-7

 

Kuby, Chapters 2

 

Religion Field Study

 

 

 

Key Concepts and Skills

 

 

 

1.
WHERE DO FOLK AND POPULAR CULTURES ORIGINATE AND DIFFUSE?

 

 2.

WHY IS
FOLK CULTURE CLUSTERED?

 

 3.

WHY IS
POPULAR CULTURE WIDELY DISTRIBUTED?

 

 4.

WHY
DOES GLOBALIZATION OF POPULAR CULTURE CAUSE PROBLEMS?

 

5.
WHERE ARE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE SPEAKERS DISTRIBUTED?

 

 6.

WHY IS
ENGLISH RELATED TO OTHER LANGUAGES?

 

 7.

WHERE
ARE OTHER LANGUAGE FAMILIES DISTRIBUTED?

 

 8.

WHY DO
PEOPLE PRESERVE LOCAL LANGUAGES?

 

 9.

WHY DO
RELIGIONS HAVE DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS?

 

 10.

WHY
DO RELIGIONS ORGANIZE SPACE IN DISTINCTIVE PATTERNS?

 

 11.

WHY
DO TERRITORIAL CONFLICTS ARISE AMONG RELIGIOUS GROUPS?

 

 12.

WHERE ARE ETHNICITIES DISTRIBUTED?

 

 13.

WHERE HAVE ETHNICITIES BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO NATIONALITIES?

 

 14.

WHY
DO ETHNICITIES CLASH?

 

15.
WHAT IS ETHNIC CLEANSING?

 

 

 

Key Terms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acculturation

 

Assimilation

 

Cultural adaptation

 

Cultural core/periphery pattern

 

Cultural ecology

 

Cultural identity

 

Cultural landscape

 

Cultural realm

 

Culture

 

Culture region

 

•
Formal—core, periphery

 

 

•
Functional—node

 

 

•
Vernacular (perceptual)—regional self-awareness

 

 

 

 

Diffusion types

 

•
Expansion—hierarchical, contagious, stimulus

 

 

•
Relocation

 

 

Adaptive strategies

 

Anglo-American landscape characteristics

 

Architectural form

 

Built environment

 

Folk
culture

 

Folk
food

 

Folk
house

 

Folk
songs

 

Folklore

 

Material culture

 

Nonmaterial culture

 

Popular culture

 

Survey systems

 

Traditional architecture

 

Creole

 

Dialect

 

Indo-European languages

 

Isogloss

 

Language

 

Language family

 

Language group

 

Language subfamily

 

Lingua franca

 

Linguistic diversity

 

Monolingual/multilingual

 

Official language

 

Pidgin

 

Toponymy

 

Trade language

 

Religion Field Study

 

 

 

Observe the  following in
your community:

 

 

–
Make a list of
any and all houses of worship in your community

 

 

 

–
If you attend a
particular house of worship or are familiar with one write a profile of
that house of worship.

 

 

 

–
Contrast your
first profile with observations you make / research in a second profile
of a different house of worship in your community.

 

 

 

 

Profiles shall include the following demographic information about the
community that attends each house of worship:

 

 

 

– religious sect / affiliation

 

 

– race

 

 

– income

 

 

– gender

 

 

– age

 

 

– ethnicity

 

 

 

–
Provide sketches
/ photos for each house of worship.

 

 

 

 

–
Visit the house
of worship or interview clergy to find out specific information!

 

 

 

–
Write a summary
that answer this question – How does each house of worship that you
selected reflect the cultural landscape of your community? (1 page
typed)

 

 

 

 

Due:
Day of Unit III Test

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning / Teaching Unit

 

 

 

 

 

AP Human Geography Unit IV – Political Geography

 

 

AP Outline Statement as Given in Course Description

 

 

 

IV. Political Organization of Space (13-17%)

 

 

A.
Territorial dimensions of politics

 

1.
Concept of territoriality

 

2.
Nature and meanings of boundaries

 

3.
Influences of boundaries on identity, interaction, and exchange

 

B.
Evolution of the contemporary political pattern

 

1.
The nation-state concept

 

2.
Colonialism and imperialism

 

3.
Federal and unitary states

 

C.
Challenges to inherited political-territorial arrangements

 

1.
Changing nature of sovereignty

 

2.
Fragmentation, unification, and alliance

 

3.
Spatial relationships between political patterns and patterns of
ethnicity, environment, and economy

 

4.
Electoral geography, including gerrymandering

 

 

 

Chapters and Textbook Pages

 

 

 

Rubenstein Chapters 8

 

Kuby, Chapters 12, 13

 

The Mission paper

 

 

 

 

Key Concepts and Skills

 

 

 

1. WHERE ARE STATES LOCATED?

 

 

2. WHY DO BOUNDARIES CAUSE PROBLEMS?

 

 

3.

 

WHY DO STATES COOPERATE WITH EACH OTHER?

 

 

4.

 

WHY HAS TERRORISM INCREASED?

 

 

Key Terms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annexation

 

Antarctica

 

Apartheid

 

Balkanization

 

Border landscape

 

Boundary, disputes (definitional, locational, operational, allocational)

 

 

Boundary, origin (antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic)

 

 

Boundary, process (definition, delimitation, demarcation)

 

 

Boundary, type (natural/physical, ethnographic/cultural, geometric)

 

 

Buffer state

 

Capital

 

Centrifugal

 

Centripetal

 

City-state

 

Colonialism

 

Confederation

 

Conference of Berlin (1884)

 

Core/periphery

 

Decolonization

 

Devolution

 

Domino theory

 

EEZ
(Exclusive Economic Zone)

 

Electoral regions

 

Enclave/exclave

 

Ethnic conflict

 

European Union

 

Federal

 

Forward capital

 

Frontier

 

Geopolitics

 

Gerrymander

 

Global commons

 

Heartland/rimland

 

Immigrant states

 

International organization

 

Iron
Curtain

 

Irredentism

 

Israel/Palestine

 

Landlocked

 

Law of the Sea

 

 

 

Lebanon

 

Mackinder, Halford J.

 

Manifest destiny

 

Median-line principle

 

Microstate

 

Ministate

 

Nation

 

National iconography

 

Nation-state

 

Nunavut

 

Raison d’être

 

Reapportionment

 

Regionalism

 

Religious conflict

 

Reunification

 

Satellite state

 

Self-determination

 

Shatterbelt

 

Sovereignty

 

State

 

Stateless ethnic groups

 

Stateless nation

 

Suffrage

 

Supranationalism

 

Territorial disputes

 

Territorial morphology (compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupt,
perforated)

 

Territoriality

 

Theocracy

 

Treaty ports

 

UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)

 

Unitary

 

USSR
collapse

 

Women’s enfranchisement

 

Reaction Paper

 

 

 

– Analyze the intersection and ensuing conflicts
between language, ethnicity, culture, religion, and political geography
in the film The Mission.

 

– DO
NOT summarize! Analyze the elements of Human Geography depicted in the
film. Responses should be typed, double spaced. 1000 words minimum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning / Teaching Unit

 

 

 

 

 

AP Human Geography Unit VI – Industrialization and
Economic Development

 

 

AP Outline Statement as Given in Course Description

 

 

 

VI. Industrialization and Economic Development
(13-17%)

 

 

A.
Key concepts in industrialization and development

 

B.
Growth and diffusion of industrialization

 

1.
The changes roles of energy and technology

 

2.
Industrial revolution

 

3
Evolution of economic cores and peripheries

 

4.
Geographic critiques of models of economic localization, industrial
location, economic development, and world systems

 

C.
Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development

 

1.
Spatial organization of the world economy

 

2.
Variations in levels of development

 

3.
Deindustrialization and economic restructuring

 

4.
Pollution, health, and quality of life

 

5.
Industrialization, environment change, and sustainability

 

6.
Local development initiatives: government policies

 

 

 

Chapters and Textbook Pages

 

 

 

–
Rubenstein, Chapters 9, 11, 14

 

–
Kuby, Chapter 16, 7

 

–
Wheelan, Naked Economics

 

–
Pacey, Technology in World History

 

 

 

 

Key Concepts and Skills

 

 

 

WHY
DOES DEVELOPMENT VARY AMONG COUNTRIES?

 

WHERE ARE MORE AND LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DISTRIBUTED?

 

WHERE DOES LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT VARY BY GENDER?

 

WHY
DO LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES FACE OBSTACLES TO DEVELOPMENT?

 

WHERE DID INDUSTRY ORIGINATE?

 

WHERE IS INDUSTRY DISTRIBUTED?

 

WHY
DO INDUSTRIES HAVE DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS?

 

WHY
DO INDUSTRIES FACE PROBLEMS?

 

Key Terms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Development

 

 

Agricultural labor force

 

Calorie consumption

 

Core-periphery model

 

Cultural convergence

 

Dependency theory

 

Development

 

Energy consumption

 

Foreign direct investment

 

Gender

 

Gross domestic product (GDP)

 

Gross national product (GNP)

 

Human Development Index

 

Levels of development

 

Measures of development

 

Neocolonialism

 

Physical Quality of Life Index

 

Purchasing power parity

 

Rostow, W. W.

 

“Stages of Growth” model

 

Technology gap

 

Technology transfer

 

Third World

 

World Systems Theory

 

Industrialization

 

 

Acid
rain

 

Agglomeration

 

Agglomeration economies

 

Air
pollution

 

Aluminum industry (factors of production, location)

 

Assembly line production/Fordism

 

Bid
rent theory

 

Break-of-bulk point

 

Canadian industrial heartland

 

Carrier efficiency

 

Comparative advantage

 

Cumulative causation

 

Deglomeration

 

Deindustrialization

 

Economic sectors

 

Economies of scale

 

Ecotourism

 

Energy resources

 

Entrepôt

 

Export processing zone

 

Fixed costs

 

Footloose industry

 

Four
Tigers

 

Greenhouse effect

 

Growth poles

 

Heartland/rimland

 

Industrial location theory

 

Industrial regions (place, fuel source, characteristics)

 

Industrial Revolution

 

Industry (receding, growing)

 

Infrastructure

 

International division of labor

 

Labor-intensive

 

Least-cost location

 

Major manufacturing regions

 

Manufacturing exports

 

Manufacturing/warehouse location (industrial parks, agglomeration,
shared services, zoning, transportation, taxes, environmental
considerations)

 

Maquiladora

 

Market orientation

 

Multiplier effect

 

NAFTA

 

Outsourcing

 

Ozone depletion

 

Plant location (supplies, “just in time” delivery)

 

Postindustrial

 

Refrigeration

 

Resource crisis

 

Resource orientation

 

Special economic zones (China)

 

Specialized economic zones

 

Substitution principle

 

Threshold/range

 

Time-space compression

 

Topocide

 

Trade (complementarity)

 

Transnational corporation

 

Ubiquitous

 

Variable costs

 

Weber, Alfred

 

Weight-gaining

 

Weight-losing

 

World cities

 

Economic Development Plan

 

 

 

You
are the president of the High Bridge Economic Development Corporation.

 

Submit a plan with drafts, street plans, and a PowerPoint presentation
for a redesigned more economically competitive Main Street in High
Bridge, NJ.

 

Include proposed businesses, parking / NJ Transit needs, pedestrian
interests, and cultural / local interests.

 

 

 

Apply global development trends to a someplace very local!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning / Teaching Unit

 

 

 

 

 

AP Human Geography Unit VII – Cities and Urban Land
Use

 

 

AP Outline Statement as Given in Course Description

 

 

 

VII. Cities and Urban Land Use (13-17%)

 

 

A.
Definitions of urbanism

 

B.
Origins and evolutions of cities

 

1.
Historical patterns

 

2.
rural-urban migration and urban growth

 

3.
Global cities and mega cities

 

4.
Models of urban systems

 

C.
Functional character of contemporary cities

 

1.
Changing employment mix

 

2.
Changing demographic and social structures

 

D.
Built environment and social space

 

1.
Competative models of internal city structure

 

2.
Transportation and infrastructure

 

3.
Political organization of urban areas

 

4.
Urban planning and design

 

5.
Patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, and class

 

6.
Uneven development, ghettoization, and gentrification

 

7.
Impacts of suburbanization and edge cities

 

 

 

Chapters and Textbook Pages

 

 

 

–
Rubenstein,
Chapters 12, 13

 

 

–
Kuby, Chapters
9-11

 

 

 

 

Filed Study

 

 

 

During the May Field Study / Trip Boat Ride around Manhattan Island
record obesrvations with notes, photos, and/or video of
each of the following:

 

–


different populations

 

 

–
cultural patterns

 

 

–
political boundries

 

 

–
Agriculture land use (if any?)

 

 

–
Industrialization

 

 

 –
Urban Land Use

 

 

 

 

Key Terms

 

 

 

Agglomeration

 

barriadas

 

 

bid-rent theory

 

blockbusting

 

CBD
(central Business District)

 

Census tract

 

Centrality

 

Centralization

 

Central-place theory

 

Christaller, Walter

 

City

 

 

Cityscapes

 

Colonial city

 

Commercialization

 

Commuter zone

 

Concentric zone model

 

Counterurbanization

 

Decentralization

 

Deindustrialization

 

Early cities

 

Economic base (basic/nonbasic)

 

Edge
city

 

Emerging cities

 

Employment structure

 

Entrepôt

 

Ethnic neighborhood

 

Favela

 

Female-headed household

 

Festival landscape

 

Gateway city

 

Gender

 

Gentrification

 

Ghetto

 

Globalization

 

 

Great cities

 

High-tech corridors

 

Hinterland

 

Hydraulic civilization

 

Indigenous city

 

In-filling

 

Informal sector

 

Infrastructure

 

Inner city

 

Invasion and succession

 

Lateral commuting

 

Medieval cities

 

Megacities

 

Megalopolis/conurbation

 

Metropolitan area

 

Multiple nuclei model

 

Multiplier effect

 

Neighborhood

 

Office park

 

Peak
land value intersection

 

Planned communities

 

Postindustrial city

 

Postmodern urban landscape

 

Primate city

 

Racial steering

 

Rank-size rule

 

Redlining

 

Restrictive covenants

 

Sector model

 

Segregation

 

Settlement form (nucleated, dispersed, elongated)

 

Shopping mall

 

Site/situation

 

Slum

 

 

Social structure

 

Specialization

 

Squatter settlement

 

Street pattern (grid, dendritic; access, control)

 

Suburb

 

Suburbanization

 

Symbolic landscape

 

Tenement

 

Threshold/range

 

Town

 

Underclass

 

Underemployment

 

Urban growth rate

 

Urban function

 

Urban hearth area

 

Urban heat island

 

Urban hierarchy

 

Urban hydrology

 

Urban morphology

 

Urbanization

 

Urbanized population

 

World city

 

Zone
in transition

 

Zoning