Geography

The following attachments are what I present at a HSC study day for country kids.

Link: http://www.nae.edu/Publications/TheBridge/Archives/V29-4UrbanizationEngineering/MegacitiesandtheDevelopingWorld.aspx

You can download a print version of the article below. An intersting article written from an engineer's perspective.

Click on the links below. This is up for a short time, register on my site and I'll move all this to the teacher section.

Below is a link to the class notes we've done so far. Be quick, they will be removed soon.

London

Just to get a sense of how interconnected some cities are compared to others, we can look at some large airlines and see what cities they directly connect to. On each interactive route map, hover over London and see how that city has a significant network between many other cities around the world.

• QANTAS Route Maps
• British Airways Route Map

From the London and Stansted airport websites:

• Heathrow Airport, 15 miles from central London, is regarded as the hub of the aviation world. Flying to over 180 destinations in over 90 countries, some 90 airlines have made Heathrow their base. The airport is owned by BAA, who also owns Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen airports. (source)
• Stansted is Britain's third-busiest airport, offering flights to more than 160 destinations in over 30 countries. Whether you're arriving, connecting or departing, you'll find everything you need here to enjoy a pleasant journey.(source)

For those of you studying Sydney, the satelite images are good for you to visulise the suburbanisation process of the Sydney Basin (Sydney Metropolitan Region)from 1975 to 2002.

UNEP Atlas of Our Changing Environments

Thought this would be of interest for people to see what influenced the World City dot points in the syllabus.

The following is a route my geography class took on a recent field trip to Pyrmont. I assembled the virtual tour in Google Maps and Geocoded and uploaded the photos using Picassa.
View Urban Renewal in Pyrmont in a larger map

Click on the attachment below to download a copy of the summary grid. It was made in Word 2003.