Orientation tour of city to include Zona Franca (tax-free industrial zone)
Introduction to the course
Evening meal 20.00
To be inserted
Coach
Day 2
Breakfast 08.00
Depart 09.00
Barcelona: land use patterns related to contemporary models. Urban transects to investigate economic and
social changes across the city
Urban transects continue
Linking the role of economic and social processes and the part played by
physical factors
Evening meal 20.00
To be inserted
Public Transport
Day 3
Breakfast 08.00
Depart 09.00
El Raval: the social, economic and environmental impact of urban renewal
strategies.
Use of transects or quadrats
Poble Nou: de-industrialisation and urban renewal: the new Silicon Valley?
The impact of the Olympic Village and current renewal strategies. The impact
of de-industrialisation
Linking census data within
the follow-up session.
Evening Meal 20.00
Evening Excursion to Barcelona (additional cost)
To be inserted
Public Transport
Coach
Day 4
Breakfast 08.00
Depart 09.00
Coastal Management study: the Sitges coastline
The processes leading to coastal erosion and the evaluation of current
management strategies
Evening meal 20.00
Classroom follow-up
To be inserted
Coach
Day 5
08.00 Breakfast
08.30 Depart
Garrotxa Volcanic Park
Arrive 10.30
Introduction to the Park: Castellfollit de la Roca (basaltic columns)
Croscat Volcano: variations in the form, type and frequency of eruption,
relating volcanic landforms to the nature of the plate boundary/hot spot.
Santa Margarida :
volcanic landforms (2 hours)
Walk to Santa Pau (1 hour): changes in rural settlements study.
Visit the earthquake museum; characteristics of earthquakes; earthquake
simulator; earthquake hazard management.
18.00 Depart for Barcelona
Evening meal 20.30
Classroom follow-up
To be inserted
Coach
Option Day 1
Breakfast 08.00
Depart 09.00
Rural Depopulation case study: Les
Garrigues.
A comparison of 4 contrasting
villages, each revealing different social, economic and environmental effects of
out-migration.
Linking
census data within the follow-up session. Development of models of
sustainable rural development based upon an analysis of data collected during
the day.
20.00
Evening Meal
To be inserted
Coach
Option Day 2
Case studies of
two contrasting tourist development models (Sitges and Calafell)
