The Big Question: What factors have encouraged cities to grow?
Site: the point at which a settlement is located. It describes the land it is built on.
Situation: where the settlement is located in relation to the surrounding features such as roads, mountains.
Situation: where the settlement is located in relation to the surrounding features such as roads, mountains.
Why was Ely built here? Use your OS map to identify as many site factors. Would you have put a 'city' here? Can you see any advantages of Ely's situation?
Are these locational features still relevant in today’s cities?
Watch the BBC clip on South Korea’s new ‘Songdo City’. Consider how ‘site’ features have changed with modern cities today. Compare Roman London with Songdo and identify locational features that are similar and different.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23757738
How have our 'needs' changed over time? What do you think the most important site and situation factor is today?
Watch the BBC clip on South Korea’s new ‘Songdo City’. Consider how ‘site’ features have changed with modern cities today. Compare Roman London with Songdo and identify locational features that are similar and different.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23757738
How have our 'needs' changed over time? What do you think the most important site and situation factor is today?
BUILDING AN IMPOSSIBLE CITY?
Did you know?
The Burj Dubai is currently 545.7 m high with 148 floors (3rd September 2007). And it keeps getting high. No one knows how high
it will go but it will be over 700m and possibly over 800m.Its elevators will be the world's fastest at 18m/s or 40mph!
The tower's peak electricity demand is equivalent to roughly 360,000 100-watt light bulbs all operating at the same time
The tower's water system will supply an average of about 946,000 litres of water per day
To cool this tower in the desert will require the equivalent of 10 million kilograms of melting ice per day
The Burj Dubai is currently 545.7 m high with 148 floors (3rd September 2007). And it keeps getting high. No one knows how high
it will go but it will be over 700m and possibly over 800m.Its elevators will be the world's fastest at 18m/s or 40mph!
The tower's peak electricity demand is equivalent to roughly 360,000 100-watt light bulbs all operating at the same time
The tower's water system will supply an average of about 946,000 litres of water per day
To cool this tower in the desert will require the equivalent of 10 million kilograms of melting ice per day