Unit7_Urban News Articles and Questions (in a document form)
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Urban News Articles and Questions
1) Discuss some of the negatives that go along with urban development and growth.
2) What is the current trend in urban development in Southern California? What is infill?
3) How does environmentalism and “NIMBYism” affect development?
1) Discuss why most zoning laws on the books are out of date.
2) What happened to the population of Chicago due to suburbanization? How has this led to new zoning problems?
3) How do some of the new plans and suggestions emulate the ideas of “new urbanism”?
1) What occurred in the American cities during the 1990s that reversed a trend that began after World War II? Give some statistical data to support how this change has been positive for ghettos.
2) Discuss how the inner cities of America had become so poor.
3) Define gentrification. How does gentrification help revive urban cores? What other approaches improve conditions in the ghettos?
transportationandurbangrowtharticle
Questions:
1) What are the FOUR stages in urban growth as proposed by the author?
2) Discuss the impact the introduction the railroad had on American cities after 1830. How did “horsecar suburbs” compare with the living conditions of the less affluent majority of the urban population?
3) Discuss the impact the electrified trolley had on urban America after 1888. How did this lead to affinity segregation and ethnic neighborhoods? (if you don’t know those terms – look them up)
4) What effect did the automobile have on urban America? How did the acceptance of the automobile lead to the massive suburbanization that dominates the US today?
AP Human Geography 2012-2013 