Topic 6.2 - Suburbanization Leads to New Land Use Forms Activity

Essential Knowledge: Processes of suburbanization, sprawl, and decentralization have created new land-use forms - including edge cities, exurbs, and boomburbs - and new challenges

Directions:

1. In groups of three, read one of the articles and accompanying slide linked below:

1. Edge Cities Article Edge Cities Slide
2. Exurbs Article Exurbs Slide
3. Boomburbs Article Boomburbs Slide

2. Fill in the appropriate part of the Venn diagram with information from the article and slide you read
3. Teach the others in your triad about your topic
4. As a triad, discuss how the concepts of edge cities, exurbs, and boomburbs overlap, and fill in the overlapping parts of the venn diagram on the back of this page
5. Identify an example of each land-use form in our area:

1. Edge City: ___________________________
2. Exurb: _______________________________
3. Boomburb: We don’t have one, although Germantown is close (91,000 as of 2019)