Types of cross*sections

Street Pattern race

The RACE: Post ONE comment with ALL the answers in it: GO

What are the street patterns for:

1. Paris (around Eiffel Tower)

2. Manhattan , New York

3. Tokyo Bay

4. London (around Westminister Abbey)

5. East London (CBD)

6. East London (Beacon Bay)

7. East London (Mdantsane)

City models

I wonder which of these models would fit East London the best?

Task 4: Central Place Theory

So why are towns or villages separated by some space?

The central place theory tries to explain this spatial arrangement of towns.

 A good explain action can be found at 

http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/PlanningTheory/central-place-theory-27139405

Only the first section before transport theory need to be under stood.

1.So why do towns develop apart from other settlements?

2.What determines the distance to the next town?

3. Make some awesome definition flash cards

Central PLace Theory video clip

Task 3: Note Making

Now make learning notes of the readings. take care to make them useful to you and use your own learning style. Here is a link of tips on note taking
http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/note_taking_skills.htm

We will post a picture of some of your notes.

You need to post 'done' when you want us to comment on your notes.

Task 2: Terminology

Name the famous city. The correct answer is...

So now is the time to read all the resources needed . What NEW geographical term did you learn? post it.

Today's Journey: Urban Settlement 1

So what is the difference between rural and urban settlement?

I hope that's your response!
our objectives for today:
1. That you would gain knowledge and understanding about the geographical urban environment.
2. That you would have awesome supplemented learning notes on this section.
3. That you would be able to engage with real life examples around you.

Resources:
Textbook: pg 186-204
Powerpoint presentation Human Environments slides 67-120
http://sageography.myschoolstuff.co.za/geogwiki/grade-12/grade-12-people-and-places/1-processes-and-spatial-patterns/

So after each task post your comment. This will take some time to understand,but the concepts are NB!


TASK 1: Define an Urban settlement. post your definition

Urban Settlement journey 24 April 2015 GREETING BLOCK

Lets start to this journey by saying 'hi' so please greet in the comments of this post so that I know you are there.

I wonder what these would look like on maps. Find some examples and post them.

WINTER!!!

16 April 2015 Synoptic Chart: A chilly-wintery-day

What do you notice about today's weather?

Tropical Cyclone 13 Jan 2015

Amazing,angry tropical cyclone! 

This is a windguru generated picture, I like the way the station model windsticks give you a sense of wind direction and strength. REMEMBER the sticks show you the direction the wind comes from.
I wonder what stage it was in?