Current+Events+and+Examples

Current Events and Examples

The information you have learned from this section of the wiki consists of information geographers have come with as they have analyzed cities and urban land use. If you cannot imagine the practices explained, then check out the links below for real life example. The models, theories, and practices can be understood better when you can connect them to everyday life.

-> This current events explains the process of city planning and how satellites help plan urban sprawl.
 * Urban Sprawl: the Big Picture ** ." //NASA Science - Science News //. NASA, n.d. Web. 3 Jan. 2012. []

Thimm, Katja. **"Culture of Steel: Germany's Ruhr Valley Looks Back to Its Future." ** //Spiegel Online - International //. Aldiana, 5 Mar. 2010. Web. 3 Jan. 2012. []. --> This current event explains how the Ruhr Region came to be known at the Capital of Culture by transformingits structure from coal to culture. > This current event shows the urbanization process of Dubai by adding artifiicial islands in the Pursian Gulf and how NASA satellites watched the city develope.
 * "World of Change: Urbanization of Dubai." ** //NASA: Earth Observatory //. NASA: Earth Observatory, n.d. Web. 8 Jan 2013. .

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