Urban Geography Fieldwork Packages

Urban Geography Fieldwork

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Barcelona

El Raval, Barcelona
Travel time: 45 minutes
	Impact of urban renewal and regeneration schemes. Environmental and residential quality are assessed in four representative zones, together with the completion of a perception and gentrification index.	Best practice case study, examining the impact of the 'Barcelona Model' of culture-led gentrification. Land use mapping can be undertaken as an alternative technique to a gentrification index. more

Sustainable City Developments: 22@ High-Tech Zone, Media Park, Olympic Village, Diagonal Mar, Universal Forum and La Mina

Travel time: 45 minutes

Torre de Agbar - 22@ High Tech zone

La Mina, a Barcelona district suffering from high levels of deprivation

La Mina - a district of high social deprivation

Impact of urban renewal and brownfield regeneration schemes west of the River Besos.

Renewal of an old industrial quarter into a technological district (22@).

The Universal Forum of Cultures 2004 developments include hotels and commercial centre facilities, new beaches, residential areas and an urban park.

These developments lie adjacent to La Mina, the most socially deprived district in the city.

Case study of the impact of these developments, including land use conflicts.

Project Details

22@ more

Can Ricart more

Diagonal Mar more

La Mina more

Media Park more

Universal Forum
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Eixample, Barcelona

Travel time: 45 minutes

Aerial image of l'Eixample

One public garden includes an urban beach

Application of urban models and impact of sustainable city planning. The Eixample is a utopian garden city development dating from 1859 which grew between outlying industrial towns across what was then Barcelona's military exclusion belt.

The City Council is gradually restoring public gardens to the Eixample blocks as part of its ProEixample sustainable city planning.

Application of the Hoyt and Burgess models to the Eixample district of Barcelona. Its growth between outlying industrial districts is reflected in its land use patterns. more

The social, environment and economic impact of the new ProEixample garden project developments. more

What is ProEixample?
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Vilafranca

Travel time: 30 minutes

Land use patterns within Vilafranca and their application to urban models. Change in retail and other functions, including areas of discard/assimilation and zones in transition. Role of centrifugal and centripetal forces in a changing CBD. Regeneration and re-imaging the CBD. Implications for city centre management.

A visit to the nearby Torres Wine Bodega in the afternoon can compliment this study.

All fieldwork studies are supported with a wide range of secondary data. Some urban studies require students to check the price of a convenience item at a number of retail outlets. These fieldwork examples take a full day. There is usually time available after the work for shopping or sightseeing.