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ANALYSIS OF ZAMORA´S URBAN PLAN

A city can be described as an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village. The city we are going to analyze is located in the Northwest of Spain, near to Portugal, in Castilla y León on the top of the plateau.

The city plan shows an irregular lineal layout characterized by short straight streets, narrow alleyways and low houses.
The medieval city was surrounded by a wall that protected people from attacks which gave them some advantage in what fights are concerned. 
Moreover, we can distinguish some parishes like San Lázaro, the Espíritu Santo or Olivares that were created around the churches. However, as soon as population increased, some neighbourhoods were eventually created.
The main urban functions of the historic centre are commercial and we can also say cultural too. There is a lot of romanesque arte which attracts tourism who can also find shops and restaurants around this area. I think there are not many problems involving this zone since there is neither pollution or extreme noise so I can´t offer any solution.

Zamora has expanded following an industrial and residential purpose. Some of the most representative transformations in this periods are the modernist buildings, found in Santa Clara or the Plaza Mayor among others; some streets changed their lengths and shapes like for example San Torcuato.
Unlike the parragraph above, now I can outline a problem with this streets and it is the difficulty of moving by car because they are too narrow for the vehicles. As a solution, I suggest improving transport access throughout the city centre.

The outskirts of the city include: Siglo XXI, Los Llanos or La Perla throgh the XX century in order to attracts people from villages and worked in the city. We can also see in the map that during this period schools, shopping centres and industrial parks were created. Some of the problems that the outskirts offer is the distance between the city and the shopping centre that difficults the acess to it.

RURAL LANDSCAPE

A rural landscape is an area that have been modified by humans to obtein products from nature. This image shows an inland landscape, possibly located at Castilla y León, in the Meseta.

The picture shows a relief characterized by plains divided by roads and paths. The vegetation in this area is scare with some bushes growing by the sides of the paths but there is a lack of trees and excesive vegetation.
Moreover there aren´t any sources of water although there migth be irrigation cannals. According to all these, the climate of this location could be described as mediterranean inland with extreme temperatures, cold winters, hot and dry summers with a rainfall average of 300-400 mm annualy.

The predominant use of the land is for agriculture, and a secondary use of the area could be livestock raising as there is a lot of space available to do this practise. In addition, the landscape shows an openfield pattern which consists on a system for the management of the arable land. Each of them belongs to a different person and they aren´t divided by any type of fence or hedge. They also follow a regular shape and size, and makes the use of bigger machines easier.
We observe that the fields are specialized in dry crops by the color of the land and the climate of the area, it may be grow up  wheat or cereal.

Some of the problems of the rural areas are the lack of services: health, education, communication...
We can also mention the depoblation of rural areas due to the industrialization and opportunities supplied by bigger cities.
Among the measures that can be applied to deal with this deficiencies we can mention the introduction of a school, and a hospital in order to improve education and health, but also introducing new ways of communication such as buses in order to facilitate people moving from one place to another.