Tag: systems
Urban Planning Game Lesson
On Friday (1/7/11), we looked back on a week of learning about urban planning. We spent most of the period discussing lessons from playing Urban Plan 2001. First of all, we honored the grand champion of both classes, AlanM. Here is a screenshot of Alan’s city of 2 million plus people: Alan described some of [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2011 under Mr. W, Scribe Post, Unit 7-Urban Issues.
Tags: feedback loop, systems, urban areas
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Urban Areas (1/4/11)
Our text defines urbanization as the shift from people living in rural areas to people living in urban areas and is probably the greatest change our society has undergone since the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a settled agricultural lifestyle. What exactly is an urban area? An urban area is place with a population of [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2011 under KerrisG, Scribe Post, Unit 7-Urban Issues.
Tags: demographic transition, sprawl, systems, urban areas
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Environmental Systems & Ecosystem Ecology
After having learned about the different biomes and aquatic life zones, it was important to understand the relationships and connections associated between them. The planet is not simply categorized by individual biomes. It is a “complex network of interlinked systems.” Be sure to understand the CONNECTIONS between biomes, not simply the biome. While categorizing these [...]
Posted: November 1st, 2010 under DavidB, Scribe Post, Unit 4-Biogeochemical Cycles.
Tags: connection, cycles, ecology, feedback loop, systems
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