Urban Geography in Britain and Ireland

The Urban Geography of Britain and Ireland

What is a city?

What does a city need to exist?

Why do cities exist?

What makes a successful/unsuccessfu

l city?

How do cities control the way we live? How does the way we

live control the city?

Booth’s ‘Poverty Map of’ London, 1898. Wealthy areas in Red, poor in blue.

Racial Divide in Detroit, United States

The First British Communities

Megalithic tombs

Newgrange, Ireland

First ‘invasion’: The Celts 100-500 BC

Celtic languages today

Irish Language

Street Signs in Ireland

Scottish Gaelic

Welsh

Celtic living structures

Ring forts

Second invasion: The Romans

Roman Empire

Roman Road, England

Hadrian’s Wall

Bath, England

Third Invasion: The Anglo Saxons

Helmet

Anglo Saxon Village

Anglo-Saxon Language

Fourth Invasion, 1066: The Normans

Norman Castle and village