The first ten minutes of this week’s programme features Nicholas Crane talking about the geographical history of the British Isles since the start of the Holocene. Really worth a listen.
Space and place even gets a mention!
Tag: place
Recommended extra reading for year 12 – Economist articles on Globalisation.
A very interesting collection of articles in this week’s Economist exploring why so many people in Advanced Countries appear to be adopting a hostile attitude to various aspects of Globalisation. If you can’t access them all through the website directly remember the magazine is available through the Library’s online Infotrac catalogue (school network only).
Year 12 and 13 – interesting article discussing how we can identify areas of gentrification around the world.
In both the World Cities (yr13) and Changing Places topics (yr12) we examine the issue of gentrification. This is a very interesting link discussing how you can best identity gentrified areas. It is worth exploring some of the links on the page.
Year 13- here is the link to the Los Angeles map. Which areas have gentrified? Is this evidence of reurbanisation? Will this reduce the ‘donut effect’ and prevalence of edge cities?
Geography links for the week ending 2/10/2016
1. The importance of place. Which country’s passports are the most powerful?
2. Year 12 – Ian Cameron studies snow packs around Scotland. This is an excellent video of a 3 year old snow pack on Aonach Beag. A Nivation hollow?
Alasdair Monteith, Steve Cook, Helen Denyer and Laura Sproule 