#Compare cities activities full#
The population of London, nearly nine million people, is 100 times the size of a full Wembley Stadium. If we have a plastic bottle or a plastic jug or something, we could recycle it or keep using it again for different things. And some cities have initiatives like clean air zones, which encourage people to use public transport instead of using their own cars.ĭo you guys have any other ideas of how we could look after our cities?įor some people who are in wheelchairs like me, I would say get rid of most of the trash, so it’s not so bumpy and stuff. If you were going to school and you lived close, you wouldn’t have to go in your car. But there are ways of reducing congestion. Now we know that those fumes can be very harmful to the environment and can cause pollution. Now, congestion is when we have lots of traffic on the roads and fumes being pumped out into the atmosphere. But as well as construction, we can have areas of high congestion.
Construction could mean the removal of green spaces or natural habitats. Well we know with cities, there can be a lot of construction. It would be a social club for kids and it would be shaped as a square. Now Willow, I know you want to be an architect when you’re older, what kind of buildings would you design? We are drawing a skyline of Birmingham and the buildings. Cities often have many tourist attractions and are hubs of entertainment with places like museums and galleries.īirmingham has the largest public library in the UK and I’m meeting locals Alanna and Willow on its rooftop garden to get a good view over the city. Some people don’t like the city because it’s too bustly and noisy, whereas other people like the fact that there’s access to lots of things in one place. People have different opinions on cities. Some people move to the outskirts of a city, called the suburbs, where there’s more space. Not all of the high-rises are offices as lots of people also live in cities, often in flats. Such as in Hong Kong or Manhattan in New York, which are areas with extremely high population density. You’ll often find tall high-rise buildings used as offices for people to work in. Cities are known for trade and economic activity. And Cardiff is the capital city of Wales. Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland. Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. If you look at satellite images that show the activity of the UK at night you can spot the locations of major cities from the patches of lights.Įach of the four countries that make up the UK have a capital city, where the government of that country is based and some of the country's most iconic buildings can be found. There are 51 cities in England, seven in Scotland, six in Wales, and five in Northern Ireland. But first, let’s zoom out.īirmingham is in an area of England called the midlands. There’s no one definition of what a city is - it can be related to size, function, or even the presence of a cathedral.īirmingham is one of 69 cities across the UK and later locals Alanna and Willow will be taking in the city views with me. And I’m about to get a real good zoomed in look at it.Ī city is a large type of settlement. This is Birmingham, the second largest city in the UK after London, which is the UK’s capital city.
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