Urban Regeneration
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Originally uploaded by jmmcdgll
Modern housing on the north bank of the Clyde on the site of the Meadowside Grain Terminal I took this on a perfect October’s morning as we sailed upriver on the Pride o’ the Clyde water bus with some of the Hutchie Higher Geography pupils. You can see the full set on my Flickr page. The running commentary is very good, pointing out the ever changing features of Glasgow’s waterfront-the old docks, cranes, wharfes, quays and dry docks that constituted the shipbuilding and trading landscape for over a century and the new high cost housing, media and leisure sector that has expanded along both sides of the river, ever since the Garden Festival of 1988.
Click here for a brief clip on regeneration of Glasgow harbour
Click here for a Scottish Enterprise clip on Braehead.
Hi Jim,
Thanks for the You Tube links. I have started using You Tube a lot for my Modern Studies classes (this week the I have a Dream Speech and Hilary’s cackle). I hadn’t thought about the Geography possibilities. I shall be really winding up the IT guys next week who have to unblock it every time I use it.
Incidentally, sorry i didn’t catch you at the end of the rugby, however, a nasty injury dragged me away. It was fascinating to sit in the A&E at Victoria Infirmary and watch the variety of sporting injuries that pass through on a Saturday morning. 2 rugby, 1 football and 1 hockey, in the 2 hours I was there.
Graeme