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It was a beautiful sunny day for our fieldwork trip to Norwich, which included an extensive walking tour.

The trip gave the students the opportunity to consider the benefits of both qualitative and quantitative data collection in order to gain insight into the "sense of place" at different locations around Norwich and to investigate the bias they and others could bring to this process. This enabled them to discover how they might design fieldwork techniques to not only take this into account in their analysis of results but potentially also to capture this bias.

The students also visited examples of urban change brought about by deindustrialisation, decentralisation and the rise of the tertiary economy and considered the reasons for the location of retail, research and business centres in out-of-town locations e.g. transport links or centres of higher education.

Urban form was also investigated, looking at the juxtaposition of historical buildings and modern architecture as well as some the urban challenges of pollution, congestion, urban drainage and in addition, an increasing population through several waves of suburbanisation strategy.