Unit 3. Cities and urban development.

This is an urban area that results from the merging of two or more cities of a similar size

• Urban network

• Metropolitan

• Conurbation

This is a large city and the towns or cities around it.

• Dormitory town

• Metropolitan area

• Andoain

This is a place from which many people travel in order to work in a bigger town or city.

Which neighbourhoods, emerged during the Industrial Revolution, have large blocks of flats?

• Working-class

• Upper-class

• Royal families

• Nobles

What are ensanches? What stage in the historical development of cities would you relate them to?

What do we call the economic and financial centre of the city?

• Old Town

• CBD

• Industrial state

Where are large factories located?

• In industrial states

• In the old town

• In the residential neighbourhoods

What are the predominant functions in the following cities?

1. New York

2. Frankfurt

3. Madrid

4. Rome

5. Salamanca

6. Sevilla

What are the differences between the morphology of cities in rich and poor countries?. List two of them.

Ex: The water pipes location, the concentration of poor neigbourhoods...

Cities in the Modern Age... (3 of these answers are correct). Mark them.

• Temples and churches were the centre of urban life.

• Rational distribution of gardens, squares...

• Were full of rubbish.

• Fortifications, the importance of artillery was predominant.

• Geometric forms in the designs.