3. FUNCTIONS
OF CITIES
COMMERCIAL
RESIDENTIAL
INDUSTRIAL
POLITICAL AND
ADMINISTRATIVE
CULTURAL
TOURISM
4. THE URBAN POPULATION
• Most of the population lives in towns and
medium-sized cities (less than 500,000
inhabitants).
▫ Salamanca has more than 152,000 inhabitants.
▫ Valladolid has 312,000 inhabitants.
▫ Palencia has around 82,000 inhabitants.
5. THE URBAN POPULATION
•However, the number of cities
with more than 10 million
inhabitants has increased in
the past few decades:
MEGACITIES
6.
7. THE GROWTH OF THE CITIES
• Cities grow and form extensive urban areas:
LARGE URBAN AREAS
METROPOLITAN
AREAS
CONURBATION MEGALOPOLIS
13. URBAN HIERARCHY
• It´s the organisation of cities in ranks or
categories.
• The number of inhabitants and the extension of
a city´s sphere of influence determine its rank in
the urban hierarchy (worldwide, national,
regional, county or district, etc.)
• A number of urban nuclei, ranked and
interconnected, form an urban network.
14. URBAN HIERARCHY
World
metropolises
National
metropolises
Regional
metropolises
Smaller cities
19. ANALYSIS OF CITIES
Analysis of
cities
Site and
situation
Urban plan
Urban
construction
20. Location of
cities
Site
On a hill
In a valley
On an island
Situation
In the centre
of a country
In a coastal
area
Near a road
• Give examples of cities. intersection
21. URBAN PLAN
• What is an urban plan?
• How many types of plan can we distinguish?
• Name the three types of plan, according to
the overall shape and the arrangement of
roads.
22. • ORTHOGONAL PLAN
• GRID PLAN
• CHECKERBOARD
This plan consists of
straight, wide streets
that cross at right
angles.
24. • RADIOCENTRIC
PLAN
This plan consists of
central point from
which streets
radiate, like the
spokes of a wheel,
crossed by others
that form concentric
circles.
31. URBAN CONSTRUCTION:
SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES
Detached house Semi-detached house Terraced house
• What kind of people live in these type of buildings?
• In which part of the city can we find single-family homes?
32. URBAN CONSTRUCTION:
SHACKS OR SHANTIES
Chabolas in Madrid Favelas in Brazil
Villas Miseria in
Venezuela
• What kind of materials are used to build these type of houses?
• Where are shanty towns located inside the city?
