GEG 100 ONLINE! Cultural Geography Chapter 10

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Reading the Urban Landscape:
Census Data and Field Observation

READ:

• pp 275-284
• Outline of Chapter

ACTIVITIES:

Read: p. 285

Items to Hand In: - This is a reading chapter only, there is nothing to hand in, but be able to do the activities. textbook page 293-294 # A-I.

CONCEPTS / VOCABULARY

All "Keyterms"

INSTRUCTOR'S NOTES and/or ADDITIONS TO TEXT READING

Note: On page 279 the text mentions Sun City retirement community in Arizona. There is also a Sun City retirement community now in Huntley, Illinois, along I-90 between Chicago and Rockford.

WEB RESOURCES

About.com. Postmodernism: http://www.philosophy.about.com/homework/philosophy/msubpostmod.htm.

Carmichael, Beth. What is Postmedernism?: http://bsc.edu/~eecarmic/eco.html.

Digital City.com: http://home.digitalcity.com/.

Likes.com. Historical and Contemporary Landscapes of Fargo, North Dakota: http://www.lileks.com/fargo/index.html.

Official City Web Sites: http://www.officialcitysites.com/.

Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environment: http://www.terrain.org/default.htm.

University of California. Downtown Los Angeles Walking Tour: http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/losangeles/lawalk/.

U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov, and http://factfinder.census.gov.

Vexcel Image Information Engineering. City Scenes: Cities of the World On-Line: http://www.city-scenes.com/.