Images of the Street: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Urban LifeAuthor(s): Nicholas FyfeSource: Area, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Jun., 1996), p. 279Published by: The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20003696 .

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RGS-IBG Annual Conference 279

(Edinburgh) outlined the Scottish system and showed how it would be difficult to implement a common core given the varying paths that students take on the geography-related degrees.

The discussion before and after tea concluded that first year programmes were more influenced by what they were intended to lead towards than by what preceded them. There

was strong agreement about sharing good practices and some agreement that skills presented an area where there was much in common among programmes. There were few other common elements. The discussants were divided about the desirability of a common core. Some wanted a seamless robe of geography taught from school to higher education which could be easily identified for employers. Others thought that geography was a contested and dynamic subject, for which a common core was inappropriate.

The convenors would like to thank all the contributors. A fuller discussion of the contents of the day will be published in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Eleanor Rawling University of Oxford

Michael Bradford University of Manchester

Images of the Street: historical and contemporary perspectives on urban life Owing to the convenor having sustained a blow causing concussion immediately prior to this session, there is no full report, but the speakers and topics are as follows:

David Crouch (Anglia)-The street in the making of contemporary geographical knowledge Mona Domosh (Florida Atlantic University)-Images of the street in nineteenth century New York Brendan Gleeson (Australian National University)-The social space of disability in colonial Melbourne Peter Larkham (University of Central England)-Re-designing streets in historic cities: the imagery of postwar replanning in the UK

Loretta Lees (University of British Columbia) Ageographia, heterotopia and Vancouver's new public library Neil Mclnroy (Strathclyde)-Street signs-images of neighbourhood space Gerry Mooney (Paisley)-The changing representation of place: the case of Glasgow's outer estates Paul Routledge (Glasgow) Carhenge or carmageddon? Pollok Free State and the M77 conflict John Silk (Reading)-Film, narrative and images of the street Duncan Sim (Stirling) Scottish house factoring: the public image of a profession

Nicholas Fyfe University of Strathclyde

Health and Deprivation in Cities; Medical Geography Submitted Papers The last ever sessions of the Medical Geography Research Group (prior to changing its name) at the annual conference proved to be highly successful and stimulating, as well as attracting considerable attention from the press. It was particularly refreshing to hear contributions from. non-geographers, the majority claiming not to have ' 0 '-level geography! Dan Dorling (Newcastle) began with a comparison of patterns of Standardised Mortality Rates and housing

wealth across Britain (using building society data). Danny presented some very interesting maps from his recently published 'A Social Atlas of Britain '. These showed a strong positive relationship between health and housing wealth.

Natasha Huff (Nottingham) and David Gray (Cardiovascular Medicine, Nottingham) considered the incidence of coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality in Nottingham

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