Exploring the Ur- ban Environment Work booklet Camp d’Aprenentatge de Barcelona Name: First / SecondFirst/ • Throughout this booklet you will find different symbols in order to specify the kind of work you will have to do for each activity. Respond, write and complete Search, consult, investigate during the activity Respond, write and complete at Draw the center or home Observe, watch, examine, read Computer activity Take photos Educational material developed by the Camp d’Aprenentatge de Barcelona and published for edu- cational purposes. Copies of the material can be made towards that end. Edition: February 2008 Camp d’Aprenentatge de Barcelona Pg. Mare de Déu del Coll 41-51 08023 Barcelona
[email protected] xww.xtec.cat/cda-barcelona 2 Exploring the Urban Environment Index 1. The City 2. Exploring Barcelona 2.1 Barcelona:Eixample 2.2 Itinerary 2.3 Transport in BCN Metro system Bus system 3. Exploration 3.1 Traffic 3.2 The street 3.3 A housing island 3.4 The market 4. LaPedrera Material Individual • Pencil case (with pencils, pens, markers...) • Hardcover folder • This booklet Group • Camera • Map of Barcelona 3 1. The City The majority of all the inhabitants of Catalonia lives in cities. Over 60% of the population of Catalonia lives in the metropolitan area of Barcelona alone (Barcelona and the surrounding towns). Barcelona, according to the census of 2005, has 1.593.075 inhabitants. Cities are complex and subject to change, depending on a city’s physical environment, its history, its culture... Cities have good and bad aspects, some of which can be measured easily (traffic, contamination, transport, imports and exports...) while some are less obvious (values of its citi- zens, feelings...).