Step 1) Have students read John Borchert’s American Metropolitan Evolution, courtesy Geographical Review. http://www.sethspielman.org/courses/geog3612/readings/Borchert.pdf

Step 2) Lecture/Review the first 5 epochs and make the connection that American city morphology reflected transportation and communication innovations of the time.

Step 3) Have students complete the three prompts on the provided worksheet. Prompt 1) Provide a title for a hypothetical 6th futuristic epoch. 2) What are the new transportation/communication improvements that humans might see in 50-100 years time? 3) In what ways will the transportation/communication improvements you envision change the way that cities look? How will the city’s requirements for infrastructure change? the-sixth-epoch-worksheet