BBC - Learning Zone Broadband Class Clips - Urban and Rural Environments

Title: Urban regeneration and the London Olympics 2012
Duration: 04:01
Description: The clip describes Stratford in London's East End which will be comprehensively changed as it is redeveloped into the site for the London Olympics. How will local people be affected? The environmental benefits of the redevelopment may well not have occurred without the Games, but a major social implication is the demolition of existing housing stock to make room for new housing. Local people offer opinions on the housing changes, followed by a discussion between two experts. A representative from the charity Shelter hopes that one legacy of the Olympics will be the creation of cheaper housing for the less well off.
Subject: Geography Topic: Urban and Rural Environments
Keywords: Olympic, regeneration, housing, community, residential, London, urban, 2012

Teachers may wish to make comparisons with the London Docklands redevelopment, and the extent to which the LDDC failed to meet the needs of local communities. Is the process being repeated in Stratford? Students could be asked to pay careful attention to the dialogue between the two housing experts. What point is each person making? This clip and the others in the sequence, can form the basis of a cost-benefit analysis of the Olympics.

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