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Lesson #4 - Sprawl
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LEQ - How and why have American cities and suburbs changed with time?
Background - In the United States and around the world, places change constantly. It is true that changing physical conditions (sea level rise), depleted resources (played-out mine) or natural disasters (tornado or volcanic eruption) sometimes play a part, change more often results from immigration and an infusion of new cultural ideas, technological change, or economic factors. The final lesson of this unit looks at the effect the automobile has had on the American landscape.

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Opener
In the United States, people who live in cities are less likely to own a car than people who live outside the city center. Why do you think this is so?
Part 2 – Open up a search engine using the internet. Type in the word SPRAWL. Write the definition in your binder.
Complete opener in BINDER
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3. Activity #1 - Sprawling and Planned Communities
Go through Activity #1. Use the maps provided to complete all parts and questions in your binder. Make sure you label and copy all questions into your binder before answering them.
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Produced by Amanda Lawson
Delaware Geographic Alliance – University of Delaware
With support from Delaware Space Grant

4. Look at the map of two neighboring communities, Smallville and Big Town.
What community do you think is sprawling? Which uses ideas of new urbanism?

5. What would be advantages of living in Big Town?
What are advantages of living in Smallville?

6. Now Try This!
Use the following five concepts to rate Big Town and Smallville (1 being low, 5 being high); there is an example chart on the next slide:
Safety of people in transportation
Pedestrians, bikes, cars, etc
Convenience and time of travel to basic services
Include traffic
Quality of life
Aesthetics
Sense of community among residents
Write a couple sentences explaining your choices for both Big Town and Smallville

7. Rating Big town and Smallville
Safety
Convenience
Quality
Aesthetic
Community
Smallville
Big town

8. Think About It! What does Smallville rank low in? What about Big Town?
What could these communities do to improve its situation?

9. Smallville and Big Town are both growing, and will eventually need more schools, housing, and stores
What do you think both communities would do about this? (NOT what you think they should do)

10. Think About It!
If Smallville and Big Town were to make these changes, would you support it?
Is there anything you would want to do differently?

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Activity #2 - Sprawl
How does the place of the center city differ from the suburban areas connected to it?
Are the differences only in concentration (more people, more buildings, more smog, more crime in the center city than in the suburbs) or are there some features that are distinct to each place?
In notebook – create working definition for “urban” and “suburban”
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Activity #2 - Sprawl
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Select a major US city – Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco
Use an atlas or the internet, and create a list of the suburbs that are clustered outside the city.
What are the main road connections that link the suburb to the core city and to other suburbs?

13. Activity #3 – HOW URBAN SPRAWL WORKS
STOP!!!
Pick up worksheet for How Urban Sprawl Works
Go to website and open reading
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Go to website and open file “How Urban Sprawl Works”; read the document and answer the questions.
Questions are turned in for a grade

14. Activity #4 - SPRAWLANTA
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Put in headphones before beginning video
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“Sprawlanta” Video Link (GO TO WEBSITE TO WATCH VIDEO)
What were the push factors (negative factors they wished to leave behind)?
What were the pull factors (benefits Americans hoped to gain as they moved farther from the city center)?

15. Activity #5 – Tracking land use changes through time
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How did growing populations and the automobile, result in suburban sprawl?

16. Change in Land Use Through Time
The following set of images shows the same area around Brandywine, Delaware through time.
Images shown are from 1937, 1954, 1961, 1968, and Analyze and examine the images to answer the question below.
What are some of the changes you can see over time?
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23. Activity #6 - Tackling Sprawl and Transportation Issues
Go back to website and open Tackling Sprawl and Transportation Issues Power Point
Read each slide. Take notes where you see the .
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After you have finished with the powerpoint, copy and answer the following questions
Identify disadvantages to individuals of living in the suburbs.
What disadvantages or issues rooted in suburban living have affected society as a whole?

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Sprawl C4U
Answer these questions based on what you have learned:
What are the main problems or issues planners are trying to solve as they apply their ideas to traditional sprawl development?
Will the new suburb make travel to the core city unnecessary?
Will the residents of the suburbs drive fewer total miles under the new development schemes?
Complete Checking 4 Understanding on a separate piece of paper to be turned in for a grade
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