Tajo valley

Ebro valley

Benidorm - 1962

Benidorm – 2012

Valencia underground

Sevilla underground

Malaga underground

Bilbao underground

Museum Guggenheim – Ria de Bilbao

Metropolitan area of Madrid

Puentenuevo – Orense

Lusitania Bridge - Mérida

Function Characteristics Examples

Resindential Common function in all cities.

Burgos , Orense , Almería …

Commercial Existence of ports,warehouses etc.

Valencia , Palma de Mallorca , Sta. Cruz de

Tenerife…

Industrial Existence of numerous industries.

A Coruña , Jaén , Badajoz …

Political & Administrative Concentration of political and administrative

bodies.

Madrid , Barcelona , Murcia…

Cultural Existence of cultural institucions

(universities,museums…) or monuments .

Salamanca , Santiago de Compostela , Sevilla …

Tourism Presence of monuments that attract tourists.

Granada , Ávila , Zaragoza …

Madrid - Political & Administrative

Port of Valencia - Commercial

Badajoz (Province) – Industrial

Burgos - Residential

Salamanca – Cultural

Ávila – Tourism

Category Inhabitants Functions Sphere of inf luence

Cit ies

National metropolis

More tham 4.9 milliion

Multiple: political,economi

c,cultural etc.

National & international.

Madrid & Barcelona.

Regional metropolis

Between 500 000 & 1600

000

Varied political, commercial etc.

Regional with direct,relationship with national

metropolis

Metropolitan area of

Valencia,Alicante,Bilbao,Málaga

,Sevilla& Zaragoza.

Sub-regional metropolis

Between 250000 &

500 000

Administrative, commercial etc.

Regional Murcia,P. de Mallorca,

Valladolid , Córdoba,Toledo…

Medium-Sized cities

Between 50 000 & 500 000

Commercial, tourism etc

Provincial Burgos,Ciudad Real,Badajoz, Jaén,Segovia etc.

Small cities Less than 50 000

Few District Plasencia,Astorga,Tordesillas etc.

Toledo

Segovia

Barcelona

Ciudad Real

Astorga (León)

Málaga

Cáceres (radiocentric plan)

Benavente (Zamora) (radiocentric plan).

A coruña (Irregular plan

Ávila (radiocentric plan)

Barcelona (orthogonal plan)

Valencia (orthogonal plan)

Cádiz (irregular plan)

Now we describe a map of ‘Ciudad Real’ and we say where are located suburban area, green zones , industrial areas , centre , residential areas, university areas and hopistal zone , and explain it.

Centre Centre is the main part of the city, which several functions, such as political,religious,cultural….But it isn’t located in the centre but is the most important part.

Centre of Ciudad Real

Residential areaResidential area are distributed over the city, there are some blocks of flats inthe east of the city but, there are some single-family homes.

Residential area

Industrial

Industrial areas

Green zones

Suburban areas

Hospital area

University area

Rector of the University of Castilla La Mancha