On Your Return....

Remember the Unit 4 project is due on Monday after the break.

Also...

You will be in the lab for the week and the following Monday.

Period 1 - 227

Period 3 & 5 - 115

Enjoy the break.

Question? Question? 1,2,3?

You should now be finished reading Unit 2 (p. 17-78).


The following questions were assigned Wednesday.

p. 15 1, 2b
p. 26 1-7, 9,11,12a and b
p. 40 2-4, 7,10,13
p. 47 1-6, 8-9
p. 58 1a, 2-4
p. 66 1-3,5
p. 67 1
p. 68 2 and 3
p. 70 1,4b,c,d; 5b,c
p. 78 1a

We will be taking these up Tuesday next week. Be sure you have completed enough in order to stay ahead of that which we are reviewing.

Upcoming Due Dates...

Plan ahead... or things can get messy.

• Global warming essay due Monday, March 12






• Unit 4 Test - Tuesday, March 13






• Unit 4 Long Term Project due - Monday, April 2

Unit 4 Long Term Project

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that deals with a current urban development issue. Your presentation should be five to seven minutes in length and should:

• Clearly define and explain the issue you are addressing
• Present either through a “sell”/justify a position approach or clinically discuss several positions

You may use the site below to assist you in preparing your presentation.

http://www.actden.com/pp/

See the Presentation Rubric in the pick up box on the network for the evaluation methodology.

Presentations will begin shortly after this week’s lab time.



The following are potential topics. Others may be considered but must be approved by the instructor.

New Urbanism - What is it? What does it look like? Where is it taking place?

http://www.newurbanism.org/newurbanism/sitemap.html

Evaluate the proposal referred to as “Victory City”.

http://www.victorycities.com/

Discuss strategies for Downtown revitalization.

http://www.solutionsforamerica.org/viableecon/downtown-revitalization.html

http://www.examplesof.com/society/urban_renewal.html


Examine and discuss efforts to reuse “Big Box” stores that are no longer in operation.

http://www.bigboxreuse.com/


Debate whether or not sports facilities assist positively in urban renewal.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000300

http://www.naiop.org/foundation/ares07mixeduse.pdf


http://www.ualberta.ca/~bhumphre/papers/pfm2003.pdf

http://www.informedesign.umn.edu/Rs_detail.aspx?rsId=2265




THE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012.

Lab Time for Unit 4 Project

No... Sorry, Fido... not that kind of lab time

















No... Not that kind of lab time either...









Better. Now that we understand each other...


GET MOVING!

Find your location and be there -

All Classes - March 5-9 Rm 227

Period 1 - March 12 - Rm 114

Period 3 & 5 - March 12 - Rm 115

Unit 4 Test Review

The test is coming! The test is coming!







Tuesday, March 13 is test day...







Oh Joy







Your mission... should you accept it is to

1. Assemble your list of terms from each chapter



2. Make chapter guides/map"Write test" (list of terms)



3. Find out what you need to learn and plan your studying



4. Rinse and repeat until you know all the terms

Chapters 14 through 16 have been covered in previous blog entries. Chapter 17 is below:

The terms to know are:

• land use


• central business district (CBD)


• suburban


• middle order good/service


• zoning


• winter-city concept


• urban sprawl


• census tract


• residential density


• transect
  
  

Unit 4 - Chapter 16 Settlement Patterns

In much the same way as we use mathematical processes to predict changes and patterns in population growth, there are a variety of strategies that can be used to identify and predict where a population is likely to settle. We can examine these trends nationally, provincially, or more locally. Invariably, there is a relationship between settlement patterns and geography. People tend to settle in places convenient for transportation, comfort, or perhaps where certain activities which can lead to work (mining, tourism, forestry, fishing, etc.).


Canada's development can be described as an interdependence between urban centers and hinterlands. The urban centers (cities) dominate the hinterland (rural areas). In the beginning, when the fur trade was conducted, Paris and its increasing demands for hats and other items made from beaver pelts drove economic activity in New France. On a smaller scale, Montreal and Quebec City served as centers through which trade was conducted and the raw materials (the beaver pelts) were collected for shipment to France where finished goods (fur hats and coats) were made to be sold at home and abroad.


As Canada grew and expanded westward after the fur trade, the trend of metropolitan dominance continued. Now southern Ontario and Quebec served as the center where manufactured goods were created and the West became the storehouse of raw materials that allowed the center to profit. The West provided wheat, oil, minerals, timber, and fish that could all be brought to the center for manufacturing and sale either back to the hinterland or beyond to the larger world. The metropolis gains wealth and supplies the hinterland with manufactured goods that it could not produce for itself while the hinterland gains consumer goods and convenience in exchange for its resources.



The net effect of metropolitan dominance and the country's geography can be seen in Canada's population distribution. Most settlement remains at the southernmost points and near the coasts.

When describing what we see in the maps above, we usually use two terms:



Population distribution - the pattern of where people live



Population density - the number of people in a given space (square mile or kilometer)

Unit 4 - Chapter 15 - The Treaty Process

You have already written an essay dealing with content from Chapter 15. The question can be found below:

How did past treaties fail to meet the needs of First Nations people?


These papers have been graded and returned. Remember not to confuse your list of supporting ideas with the thesis! This was a common error.

Below are the terms for which you are responsible for this chapter:

• treaties


• aboriginal


• Royal Proclamation of 1763


• residential schools


• assimilate


• economic base


• reserve


• band


• comprehensive treaties


• ecotourism


• specific claim


• First Nations


• self-government

Unit 4 - Chapter 14 - the Study of Population

A copy of material from Chapter 14 will be provided in the pick up box. Use it as needed to study for the upcoming test. If you know the terms, there is nothing that possibly could stump you on a test.


Key Terms:

• demography


• rule of 70


• natural increase


• dependency load


• population growth rate


• population pyramid


• migration


• doubling time
  
  

The key to understanding this chapter is the formula for population growth:

population growth = natural increase (births-deaths) + net migration (immigration-emigration)

We study population as a predictor -- using simple linear regression to predict how many people there will be going forward. This is useful for us to know when it comes to calculating needs for services, infrastructure and also the country's ability to pay for entitlement programs like Old Age Security.

Looking far forward, we can use such information to establish good predictors of when population doubles (doubling time). The rule of 70 takes what we've learned from linear regression analysis and simplifies it into a very basic and reliable rule of thumb -- divinding 70 by the population growth rate will tell us how long it will take for the population to double. As an example, Togo's growth rate is 2.4%. If we divide 70 by 2.4, we can expect that Togo's population will double in 29.17 years.

We can also use graphical representations like a population pyramid to assist us in predicting how things will look in the future.