Population History

Connects with the ideas of Malthus...

Explore the map and data or watch the video....

Urban poverty and the link with social welfare...

One for Y12. This video by Charlotte Lemanski has her looking at the nature of urban poverty and how it's connected with urban structure and the development of cities. Hosted on the GA website too, where there are other related links as part of their new Videocasts.

EBOLA

We will be exploring Ebola as our infectious disease case study.
Start reading up on this disease now...
This book is interesting, and at least one student has bought their own copy of it, although we wouldn't expect you to do that. It's an accessible read, and explores the history of the virus. It's taken from a larger book called Spillover.

I'm putting together a page of links to read...

Global patterns of death...

Not a cheerful subject for a Monday morning, but one that will be explored by Year 12 students for the next term. Here's a video made by Ben Hennig.

How old is your house?

You may have an idea… but what about the other houses in your street, or district, or neighbourhood, or across your whole town.
The latest map to be created and shared by Oliver O'Brien of CASA at UCL is now out, and it allows you to see the age of housing in specific areas of cities.
Look at Norwich below, for example, and you can see the different ages at which areas of the city were added to the current shape…
Click for biggery...

These would be very useful for students who wants to unpick the relationship between cities and the traditional urban models.