PPT-Chapter 11 | Built Environment, Urban Systems, and Cities

Key Message 1 11 Ch 11 Built Environment Urban Systems and Cities The opportunities and resources in urban areas are critically important to the health and wellbeing of people who work live and visit there Climate change can exacerbate existing challenges to urban quality of life including social inequality aging and deteriorating infrastructure and stressed ecosystems Many cities are engaging in creative problem solving to improve quality of life while simultaneously addressing climate change impacts. Claudia . Adriazola. . Director, Health and Road Safety. EMBARQ, World Resources Institute. Road Safety and the . Urban Environment. An increasingly urban, car-filled world. World’s urban population will . Findings from the Global Energy Assessment. Note: All material presented here is from GEA Chapter 18, available at www.globalenergyassment.org. suggested citation:. Grubler. , A., X. . Bai. , T. . Buettner. . Advanced Placement Human Geography. Session 1. Urban Geography. What is urban geography?. Urban geography focuses on:. how cities . function. the internal . systems. and . structures. of cities. Freeways, Regional Decentralization, and Metropolitan Sprawl (1945-1973). Rise of interstate highway system and a network of regional and . subregional. passenger airports. Led to both Regional . Decentralization & Metropolitan Consolidation. American History. Goals. Students will be able to:. Analyze economic challenges American farmers faced in the 1800s. Examine causes and consequences of the second Industrial Revolution. Analyze changes as the U.S. became an industrial society. RESILIENCE . AND THE . IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE . ON CITIES. Latin American cities . and metropolitan regions contribute to climate change and, at the same time, are vulnerable to . their impacts. This vulnerability is due to their complex nature, but it is also aggravated . Frontier Urbanization: European Colonization to Independence. Mercantile Period (1790-1840) Local Markets and Central Place. Early Industrial Expansion and Realignment (1840-1875). Industrialization (1875-1920) Uneven and Unstable. . Advanced Placement Human Geography. Session 3. Early Urbanization . Around the Mediterranean. Early Settlements. Settlements were . originally. established in the area around the eastern . The New Metropolis. The Shape of the Industrial City. Before the Civil War, cities served the needs of commerce and finance, not industry.. As industrialization developed, cities became sites for manufacturing as well as finance and trade. . . Advanced Placement Human Geography. Session 3. Early Urbanization . Around the Mediterranean. Early Settlements. Settlements were . originally. established in the area around the eastern . Core Case Study: The . Ecocity. Concept in Curitiba, Brazil. Ecocity. , green city. :. Curitiba, Brazil . Bus system: cars banned in certain areas. Housing and industrial parks. Recycling of materials. ure and the Built Environment CABE Bartlett School of Planning UCL Matthew Carmona Claudio de Magalhaes Louie Sieh Sharpe and Pelipenko Chris Sharpe 2ContentsExecutive Summary3Acknowledgements78ban E The Preindustrial City: Past. . and Present. (1960). Sjoberg said that all cities were a product of their societies and went through stages:. Folk-preliterate. Feudal. Preindustrial. Urban-industrial. Cities – . Sustainable . Urban Development. “. Helena . Vorbo. v. á . Michal . Rampír. Washington 2017. 15TH STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING . INTOSAI WGEA . 2010. Auditing Sustainable Energy. 2016.