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This curriculum module presents AP Human Geography teachers with resources and ideas for addressing the final content area of the AP course outline — Cities and Urban Land Use.
AP Human Geography is an introductory college-level human geography course. Students cultivate their understanding of human geography through data and geographic analyses as they explore topics like patterns and spatial organization, human impacts and interactions with their environment, and spatial processes and societal changes.
CITIES & GLOBALIZATION. Two distinct urban concepts related to the population are megacities and size of a city metacities. A. megacity is a city whose population is between 10–20 million people, and.
The “central place theory” was developed in the 1930s by Walter Christaller. According to the “central place theory” in any given region there can only be one large central city which is surrounded by a series of smaller cities, towns, and hamlets.
The purpose of AP Human Geography is to introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences.
Please visit AP Central (apcentral.collegeboard.org) to determine whether a more recent course and exam description is available. AP ® Human Geography COURSE AND EXAM DESCRIPTION Effective Fall 2020
low density suburbs on the periphery; the traditional downtown; and the inner city together create a galactic city which is dispersed, mostly dependent on automobile transportation, and made up of several centers. This is the dominant urban form in most American cities today and increasingly around the world, though to a lesser extent.
