1. Exploring Living Areas
Objectives:
Explain how physical geography has historically affected choices in home construction.
Make inferences about cultural, social, political and economic aspects of different societies on home design.
Explain how culture, societal values, politics and economics have affected choices in home construction.

2. Warm-Up
What is a home? List all the qualities that you can think of to describe a home.
Brainstorm what factors you think people in all parts of the world considered when they built homes around 1800.

3. I. Industrialization
As a result of industrialization, populations shift
1. Population increases
2. People move to cities, fueling demand for cheap housing
3. Gas and electricity replace the need for bins of coal in houses
Review: How did industrialization lead to changing patterns of settlement?
Guiding question: What happened in the rural areas?

4. II. Impact in Rural Areas
Shifts in building materials in rural areas
Forests depleted for fuel and building materials in urban areas
Brick was used more widely as forests decreased

5. III. Looking at Latitude
A. People along the same lines of latitude share many similarities in living structures. Why?
B. Examples
Mongols of inner Eurasian steppe and Navajo of North American plains share round home designs
Stilt homes are found in Southeast Asia and southeastern US
Tree structures are typical dwellings for people in rain forests

6. IV. Purposes of Homes Functional uses Emotional-cultural uses
1. Available resources put together for shelter from elements
2. Architecture shifts based on resources
Emotional-cultural uses
Often serve as a link between spirit and mortal worlds
Architecture shifts based on cultural beliefs