Urban ecology

Introduction by Joe Bibby
[Joes bit goes here]

Teacher's notes:
This day was concerned with investigating the Burgess Model and its' applicability to Liverpool. Students designed a transect recording sheet (opens a word document) and worked in small groups to plan a suitable method for recording data. We identified suitable locations along a transect (word document) using a mapping program. The fieldwork took us from the inner city area of Wapping to Dingle (the "Holy land") Aigburth Garston and Speke. It is fair to say that the results did not entirely match our expectations, especially the Garston area where the decline in the local dockyard is particularly evident.

In the evening we discussed our findings. We all wrote poems about either Granby or the Albert dock. Some of these were recorded at the appropriate location the following day before we returned home.

Granby poems:
Ghetto children Undali exclusive from Liverpool Street performance
Louises' poem
Precipice Inspired by a stuffed toy in Granby

Granby The empty streets leave a lasting impression!

Isaac's poem a street of despair

Alex's poem Follow the quiet grey road!

Ghost road (in an abandoned postcode)

Granby 2002 a place of some colour?

Noon's poem The sweat of industrialsation has left, but at a high price

Greg's poem we all had questions, but few answers.

and from the teachers.........

How much is that doggie?

I don't want your pity Savage lines from MC Human Geography

In the evening we went out to the bar and clubbing district of the CBD to consider the role of popular culture in the regeneration of the city centre!