Urban Changes

Assessment Slide Show

What other types of buildings and services are needed by people who lived in these “neighborhoods?”

In what ways did homes like these tipis affect the natural environment of the area?

What other types of buildings and services are needed by people who live in this building?

In what ways do homes like this apartment building affect the natural environment of the area?

Which type of home has the better insulation, to keep it a comfortable temperature inside?

Which of these homes were made from native materials gathered from the neighborhood? Which of these homes are

permanent?

These are images of a city as it has grown through time. What city is this?

Put the images in the right time order.

A.

E.

D

. C.

B.

These maps show the same city. Water is blue, urban areas are yellow, desert is grey, and rocky mountains are black and white. Why was water there in the 1952 map, but never before? How was this city able to grow

because of the water?

Photo Credits

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection

UNLV Special Collections

HUD

USGS

NPS

Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis's 'The North American

Indian': the Photographic Images, 2001.

Library of Congress, Images from the American Indians of the Pacific

Northwest Collection