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1 Urbanization and Settlement Patterns UNIT 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKnAJCSGSdk

2 WHAT DOES A DEVELOPED COUNTRY NEED TO SURVIVE?  Discuss as a group and write at least 5 different “things”  Write your answers on the white board  You have 2 minutes  What do you notice across all of the lists?

3 Urbanization Moving from a rural to an urban area  Most of the migration to cities is occurring in developing countries. http://www.newgeography.com/content/004290-all- cities-rankings-2014-best-cities-job-growth

4 Global rural population in developed and developing countries URBAN RURAL

5 Settlement Patterns  Dispersed Settlements: Scattering of people over an area  Occur in rural areas, mountainous areas, extensive flat lands, rolling hills  Linear Settlements: Grouping of houses along a straight line  Follow railways, roadways, and along coast lines  Nucleated Settlements: grouping of many houses around a center “nucleus”  Found at road intersections, focal points of an area, or confluence of a river

6 Dispersed Settlement Nucleated Settlement Linear Settlement

7 Population Patterns  A population pattern refers to the way in which people are distributed in a given area  It can be local, regional, global, or national  A population pattern is determined by the resources in an area

8 Urbanization – migration, emigrate, immigrate Urban Rural https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QWAXWhtSCQ

9 Push- Pull Theory Explains the reasons for immigration

10 Urbanization

11 Suburban

12 RURAL

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15 Answer the following questions: What time period did the majority of the urban growth occur? What caused the urban growth in this region? What economic factors played a role in urban growth? What changes did society experience during the urbanization of this area? Was it a smooth transition? Show two before and after photos, charts, and/or images documenting how the area changed Is the area considered a strong or weak economic region now? Why? What is the quality of life in the region today? What evidence do we have of this? Option #1 - Research an urban area

16 Option 2 – Urbanization Photo Essay  Each photo essay shall include 6-8 photos of growing urbanization in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries  Each photo shall have a summary of a minimum of 3 sentences explaining the photo, important dates, locations and other details and/or how the photo represents urbanization  Show 3 before and after photos/charts/images, documenting how the area changed  Is the area considered a strong of weak region now? Why?  What is the quality of life in the region today?  What evidence do we have of this?


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