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Video Links

Learning Objective: 13.4: Discuss national and global urbanization trends.

13.1 The Transit System of the Future

In this forward-thinking talk, preview exciting concepts like modular, detachable buses, flying taxis, and networks of suspended magnetic pods that could help make the dream of a dynamic, driverless world into a reality.

13.2 The Future of Cities

This video from Ted Talks examines how megacities are now changing the map of the world.

13.3 Urban Planning

Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of “Stop” and “Yield.”

Learning Objective: 13.5: Explain three major social problems facing urban areas in the Global South.

13.4 Environmental Refugees

This clip looks at how people are migrating because of their degrading environment.

 

Audio Links

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality and migration.

13.1 Immigration

Alabama’s new immigration law aims to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will “self-deport.” And in a way it is working. Immigrants are fleeing Alabama ... but not just the undocumented ones. This and other stories of people living with the unintended consequences of their decisions.

Learning Objective: 13.4: Discuss national and global urbanization trends.

13.2 Community Schools

This podcast from NPR looks at how community schools changed life in Cincinnati and how Baltimore has begun to embrace the change as well.

13.3 Small Towns

Stories of small town life: the claustrophobia and freedom people feel in small towns, the yearning people feel in small towns. Three teenagers in one of the harshest urban environments explain how the public housing projects are like a small town.

 

Web Resources

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality and migration.

13.1 Pandemics

This article from TIME magazine examines the top 10 epidemics that have plagued our world.

13.2 Population Clock

The Population Clock, issued by the Census Bureau, looks at how many births and deaths take place within the United States as well as the 10 most populated countries around the world.

Learning Objective: 13.4: Discuss national and global urbanization trends.

13.3 Urban Sprawl

This article from Contexts Magazine examines urban sprawl and how this sprawl has changed the urban landscape and changed American life.

13.4 The Growth of Cities

This article from Pacific Standard Magazine examines a simple pattern of population growth and decline in four major cities in both the United States and Europe.