INTRODUCTION

• settlement basics – an excellent introduction to the ideas of ‘settlement’

• LDDC – the people who developed the present day docklands

• London docklands

• IOM – international organization for migration – studying people moving from place to place, or country to country

• GB population – an interactive BBC guide to how the British population has changed

• Cities of today, Cities of tomorrow – a UN interactive course

CASE STUDIES

DURHAM (source: Winchester College)

Durham is an excellent example of location factors for a Settlement

• map of the city’s site (click and zoom!)

• aerial photo composite (click and zoom!)

• a full historical guide to the city’s development

Key Points:

• ‘Durham’ derives froms ‘Dun Holm’ – meaning ‘Hill Island’ in Nordic.  Later the name was ‘corrupted’ to the Anglo-Saxon sounding Durham

• the city was founded as the final resting place of St. Cuthbert in 995AD

• excellen defensive site on a tight meander of the River Wear

• a religious based city, with later defensive and economic development

RIO DE JANEIRO

• Rio – a study of the city and how it has developed