*entre 500.000 y 1,5 *200.000-500.

000 habitantes
millones de habitantes

*Madrid y Barcelona Metrópolis

Metropolis regionales subregionales

Centros subregionales 50.000-200.000

*medium-sized city habitantes
with fewer urban
*state capital or another large city with functions
considerable international influence

Metrópolis nacionales

Jerarquía

Regional city Capitales comarcales 10.000-50.000

habitantes

National city
*area of influence is
provincial or regional Small city or town

Cities in rich countries Cities in poor countries

*small
*dispersed or concentrates activities related with primary sector:
*in villages *agriculture
*livestock farming
ESPACIO ESPAÑOL
URBANO

HIERARCHY OF CITIES
Global city *bigger size
*cities
*city with international *more number of inhabitants
power and influence

URBAN LADSCAPES
ALL OVER THE Rural settlements:
WORLD
Problemática

Activities related with industry and tertiary sector

*eliminación de residuos
Industrial *contaminación
Commercial and *exceso de tráfico
financial *presión espacio urbano sobre rural Urban settlements

Residential Urban a rural

Settlements

URBAN FUNCTIONS
Cultural

*number of inhabitants
*economic activity
Politics *compact shape
*high density of population
*built spaces

criteria to definde a
*succession of city
conurbations and megacity
metropolitan areas Militar

WHAT IS A CITY?

*several scattered
cities and towns that
are close together
urban region URBANISM center of power,
concentration of
activities and functions creativity and chance

The concept of city

THE URBAN
TIPOLOGY

Classification of cities

metropolitan area

*cosmopolitan
*big city merges with *tolerant
other smaller cities and *dynamic
towns fast way of life *anonymous

Conurbation
Historic centre
URBANISATION
PROCESS
Expansion zone

THE URBAN
*nearby cities of similar MORPHOLOGY
importance expand Geometry of the city
and merge together The postindustrial city
Urban layout *developed and developing countries
*space for services sector and house
*industrial activities outside the city
*more dispersed settlements
*outside residential areas
*higher price of urban space
*facilities on means of transport

Outskirts
Urban layouts
The industrial city
Regular The preindustrial city

Radial

Irregular

*emerge with Industrial Revolution

*factories and railways
*cities ned more space
*new residential areas: for workers and for the bourgeois
*new means of transport and connection

Medieval cities
Greek cities Roman cities
Modern era cities