Cities and urban geography

4. Oldest Continuously Inhabited City Damascus, Syria (8,000-10,000 BC)

5. Architecture and Place

7. Ancient Greece, 750 to 490 BC Athens

8. The Roman Empire (~100 BC to 600 AD)

9. Parthenon Oracle at Delphi Classical Architecture from the Greeks and Romans Arches And Columns

10. The Forum (Rome)

11. The Coliseum (Rome)

12. Roman Aqueduct (Segovia, Spain)

13. Roman Bridge (Salamanca, Spain)

16. Medieval Cities (Castles) Toledo, Spain

17. Tower of London

18. Neuschwanstein, Germany

19. Quebec City? (only walled city in North America Very Old!)

21. Notre Dame (Paris)

22. Westminster Abbey (London)

24. Radial Patterned Cities Paris Arc de Triomphe

25. Paris

27. Venice, Italy

28. Seville, Spain

29. St. Peter’s Cathedral, Vatican City

30. Antwerp, Belgium

32. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Oldest Colonial City in the Americas

33. Hong Kong Owned by the United Kingdom (now China) until 1997 New Flag Old Flag

34. Boston

38. U.S. Railroads and Canals 1870

39. Chicago = Transportation

40. Grid Pattern Radial Pattern (U.S.) (Europe)

41. Washington D.C. Both Grid AND Radial Pattern!

44. Cleveland, Ohio Modernist Not Modernist

53. Cities of the World

55. xxxxxx Number of Core Cities in Top 30 1950 21 1980 11 2010 5

56. World Urban Dwellers

57. Urban Percentage of Population

58. Urban Growth Rates 4/5 growth in Periphery; 50% under poverty line

62. World Cities 3 Centers in Tripolar Economy: New York, London, Tokyo