Tag: urbanization

INTERACTIVE: Atlas of Urban Expansion

Check out the Atlas of Urban Expansion for a quick interactive website concerning urban sprawl. Assign one city per student and have them compare. From the website: The NYU Urban […]

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VIDEO: Urbanization and the future of cities via TedEd

Here is a great little video (4:08) that discusses the rise of cities and how we now have 50% of the world’s population clustered in them. It takes us from […]

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VIDEO: Travel in La Paz Bolivia

This sure beats sitting in rush hour traffic. In La Paz, the sky rail take commuters where they need to go. This is the ultimate example of humans changing their […]

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NEWS via Guardian Liberty Voice: China Population Structure Change Demands Economic Reform

China Population Structure Change Demands Economic Reform Added by Tina Zhang on March 15, 2014. On March 13, China’s annual parliament meeting closed. Reforms in financialsector, economic structure, environmental protection, and many other […]

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NEWS via HeritageDaily: 17th- and 18th-century risk of disease through Migration

17th- and 18th-century risk of disease through Migration HERITAGE March 3, 2014 – No comments The fate of migrants moving to cities in 17th- and 18th-century England demonstrates how a single pathogen could […]

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NEWS via Nat’l Geographic: The Growth of Megacities

Geography in the News: The Growth of Megacities Posted by Neal Lineback of Geography in the NewsTM on February 17, 2014 By Neal Lineback and Mandy Lineback Gritzner,  Geography in the NewsTM Megacities’ Expansive […]

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NEWS via Mlive.com: ‘I used to live here’: Saginaw’s Steep Population Drop hits Neighborhoods

Keyterms: Population Geography, urbanization, deindustrialization, out-migration, white-flight, redlining, push factors, Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Development, Blight, Industry, Manufacturing, secondary economic activity. (¯`·._.·(¯`·._.·(¯`·._.· Article Below ·._.·´¯)·._.·´¯)·._.·´¯) ‘I used to live here’: […]

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NEWS vía GlobalPost: Latin America: The Cost of Murder

The effects that crime, violence, and the homicide rate have on Latin America is a model for the rest of the world. The loss of GDP due to a loss […]

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