UNIT+4+-+Human+Population,+Cities,+and+Sprawl

UNIT 4: Human Population, Cities, and Sprawl: chapters 8 and 13

=STUDY GUIDE =


 * Chapters 8 and 13 of the textbook**
 * [[file:Chapter 13 Study Guide.doc]]
 * [[file:APES POPULATION UNIT STUDY GUIDE.doc]]

Here is a good overview video of the demographic transition

=CLASS NOTES =



shown 2/18-19



=RESOURCES =

POPULATION
view this TED talk: Global Population growth

Population policies by country: a great document, going country by country to outline it's population control policies

CHINA'S ONE-CHILD POLICY:

Brief YouTube overview: One-child policy

TIME Magazine story on the history of the policy

Research from Harvard's Graduate school of education

Newspaper article: planning for end of one-child policy

Economist magazine on coerced abortion

[|7 billion: National Geographic Series]

[|2011 world population data sheet]

[|Total midyear population] world, U.S. Census Bureau, 1950-2050

**DEATH LAB RESOURCES**
[|1. A database of obituaries, modern]

[|2. A database of obituaries, mostly from the 19th century]

3. Here is the [|San Francisco obituary data set]

URBANIZATION (ch. 13)

Growth of Dhaka, Bangladesh a 7-minute video from PBS Newshour

Urbanization and megacities Brief description of the rise of the world's largest cities

Back to the Future article by James Howard Kunstler on cities of the future

How bad architecture wrecked cities 17-minute TED talk by James Howard Kunstler

Urban heat island basics

Here's a great [|interactive map of world urbanization]

A good article on why cities might be good for the environment

Some websites with satellite imagery of cities:

[|New York City temperature]

[|urban growth in Cairo - 1965-1998]

DESIGN A Sustainable City
Sustainable City design an extensive website showing one person's attempt to design a sustainable city. Useful for showing the kinds of things to take into account.

Urban Ecology A San Francisco-based NGO working on sustainable cities

Encyclopedia of Earth article on smart growth. Includes linked references

Smart Growth America, an advocacy group

The Folly of Smart Growth, a critical assessment by The Cato Institute, an advocacy group

New Urbanism: An online Newshour special report

New Urbanism .org

Evaluating criticism of smart growth a report by a Canadian transportation policy NGO.

Critical view of smart growth Some good arguments by a local official in Virginia who says that smart growth is just urbanizing the suburbs

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> @http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/translating-uncle-sam/stories/urban-or-rural-which-is-more-energy-efficient <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">urban vs suburban vs rural energy calculator

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">@http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4292 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">nasa image of U.S. showing change in NPP in urban areas

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">@http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=37228 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">series of images showing changes in Las Vegas over about 25 years

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">@http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1764 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;"> cairo from 65 to 98

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">@http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/dubai.php <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">urbanization of dubai-shown over 10 years

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> @http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GreenRoof/greenroof2.php <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">NYC <span class="yshortcuts" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">urban heat island <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">. has 2 good maps--temperature and vegetation

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">@http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Lawn/lawn.php <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">lawns