Changing Urban Systems, IBDP Geographic Themes (Options), Urban Environmental and Social Stresses, Urban Environments

San Francisco and Gentrification – Vice

This mini-expose uncovers the nature of gentrification in San Francisco and the effects on different neighbourhoods and communities running along market street. This clip is useful in how it shows the faces and names behind the causes and consequences of a controversial urban process.

https://hoodline.com/2016/04/vice-takes-a-video-tour-of-san-francisco-gentrification

Geophysical Hazard Risks, Geophysical Hazards, Grade 11 HL, Hazard Risk and Vulnerability, IBDP Geographic Themes (Options)

Haiti Earthquake Case Study Flipped Classroom Assignment – Alberts absent, 13/11/18

Dear 11 HL,

What lies below is your work to be done in class on November 13th in my (planned) absence.  Do not do it beforehand.  Go through the videos and add the relevant notes to your case study which you have already started.  Please pause the video as it goes along to make sure everyone gets the proper notes down.  I fully expect this to be finished by the following class, so if you do not finish in class, please finish for homework.

The PDF of the lesson can be found here:

Haiti and Christchurch Case Studies

The link for the website can be found here:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Haiti-earthquake-of-2010 

The first video is below.  For whatever reason, the other two are too large to upload on this site, so I will send them to you separately (I will send all three via google drive just in case):

 

Building Sustainable Urban Systems for the Future, Global Resource Consumption and Security, Global Trends in Consumption, IBDP Geographic Perspectives (Core), Impacts of Changing Trends in Resource Consumption, Resource Stewardship, Urban Environments

Las Vegas Case Study – Water Consumption

One of my favourite detailed examples/case studies to teach, below is a list of useful links I have assembled to help illustrate the water consumption issues in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Plenary:

CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lake-mead-is-shrinking-and-with-it-las-vegas-water-supply/

Strategies:

Southern Nevada Water Authority: https://www.snwa.com/consv/restrictions.html

Youtube/Google Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPRGfyd93fo

Las Vegas Sun: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/apr/27/tips-california-what-nevada-has-done-conserve-wate/

Future:

Las Vegas Now:  http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-new-outlook-for-nevadas-water-future/148482842

News Deeply: https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/10/19/how-las-vegas-aims-to-be-the-next-silicon-valley-for-water-innovation

 

Building Sustainable Urban Systems for the Future, Geography, IBDP Geographic Themes (Options), Urban Environmental and Social Stresses, Urban Environments

Vienna Sustainability – The Kabelwerk Social Housing District

The link below is to a feature run by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development on Social Housing in Vienna.  This is in many ways linked to the social deprivation area of the syllabus, as well as a more eco-city designed detailed example.

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_article_011314.html

The link below leads to a download of photographs I have taken of this social housing district of Vienna in the spring of 2018.  I have annotated them in order to display features of thoughtful urban planning.

Kabelwerk Photographs

 

 

 

 

 

Grade 12 HL/SL, IBDP Geographic Themes (Options), Urban Environmental and Social Stresses, Urban Environments

Beijing Case Study (Air Pollution) – Ohio State Publishing

A short and sweet case study about the causes and consequences of air pollution in Beijing, China.  Published by Ohio State.

 

https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/sciencebites/chapter/causes-and-consequences-of-air-pollution-in-beijing-china/

 

Geophysical Hazards, Grade 12 HL, Hazard Risk and Vulnerability, IBDP Geographic Themes (Options)

Vargas State, Venezuela – Mass Movement Case Study

Click below the image for the link to a Prezi originally created by Emina Ademovic for one of the Mass Movement Case Studies required by the Geophysical Hazards unit.

https://prezi.com/s_dvpfrkpz83/vargas-state-venezuela-1999-case-study/