Some links for the settlement topic:
Site:
Blasket Islands history
Settlement site online activity
Live Local land use map of Darlington
Function – Dubai:
Palm island resort Dubai, UAE
Arab islands reshaping Geography
Effects on the environment
Dubai – Wikipedia article
Boom Town Guardian article
Dubai The Megaprojects (Long Google video)
London:
South Bank wikipedia article describing the area
Coin Street regeneration
South Bank regeneration
Favelas:
Favela improvement in Rio de Janiero
Article on favela removal from The Guardian
Favela tourism
Rio shanty town becomes tour spot BBC news article
Favela Faces, stories from a favela
Egypt: Living in the Cities of the Dead
Field trip:
You can follow the trip as a Google Earth fly-through, and click on the case study
locations for more information. Download the file to see where we went!
London field trip (needs Google Earth)
View in Google Maps (if you don’t have Google Earth)
Pictures in Splashr (as seen in the lesson)
Pictures at Flickr (see high quality versions)
