The City of the Future

• EIO
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

The city of the Future

What are we going to do?

- Project City of the Future

- Geography

- 1) Origin of cities

   2) Functions

   3) Challenges & difficulties 

   4) Opportunities & chances 

   5) The city of the Future 

Origin of cities 

If we're going to think about future cities, we need to adress two questions that handle the past and origin of cities: 

1) Where did cities develop first? And why there? 

2) Why did cities develop? 

Where did cities develop first? And why there?

Why did cities arose/develop?

Assignment:

• Use Google Maps
• Search in Vienna, Rome & Madrid for the names of the following features of the city: 
• Main market square, largest religious building, main resource of water 
• On the following slide, you will have the opportunity to write down your anwsers

Names from the main market square, largest religious building and main resource from Vienna, Rome & Madrid

The development of cities: ex. Amsterdam 

1) Cities develop near a river bank (or lake/sea), where markets were held

2) The buildings are constructed around this market square, so this becomes the city centre

3) When a city becomes overpopulated, where do the new buildings arise? 

Development of Amsterdam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tC1tc60vF4

Homework assignment

Compare 4 cities with each other, on the following topics: 

!Use a schedule! 

- Map (how is the city constructed, divided, developed)

- Buildings (what kind of buildings do you have, high-rise or low?, where are certain types of buildings located: e.g. financial centre, shops/malls, houses)

- Water resources (lakes, rivers etc.) 

Today:

1. Recap last lesson: origin of cities and locations
2. Homework assignment
3. Functions of Cities

When you're looking at your homework assignment, what stood out in comparing the cities?

Functions of cities

The first cities had a purpose and clear function(s). If you think about those early settlements, today cities still provide the same functions, but also new ones. 

Functions of cities

Ancient cities:

1. Market (and later on market square): economic, social and political functions
2. houses
3. stores/shops/companies
4. religious buildings
5. Bath houses
6. Pubs
7. What else?

What do you think is the most important function of city and why?

What do you think has become more important in/about cities the last couple of years?

Homework:

Don't forget to upload your schedule on comparing cities (the assignment for today), you will receive a mark for that! 

No extra homework assignment