- Urban social activities
- Scientific urban activities
- Religious urban activities
- Political urban activities
- Urban sports activities
- Economic urban activities
- Secondary or industrial sector activities
- Construction activities
- Tertiary sector activities
- Service sector
- References
The urban activities are actions or sets of actions performed by people within a city, in areas adjacent to this or under their direct influence.
These actions are primarily intended to satisfy your basic or non-basic needs and can be individual or collective.
Urban activities can be of many and different kinds, as many and as varied as those normally carried out by people in their daily lives.
Depending on their utility, purpose or need, urban activities can be economic, social, scientific, religious, political and even sports.
Urban social activities
They include all activities carried out by individuals or groups of individuals in an urban environment with the purpose of being informed, updated and fostering links with other individuals or groups who share a common interest or activity.
An example of urban social activity might be an engineering conference, attending a church or worship, participating in a collective professional event, exhibitions, etc.
Scientific urban activities
They are those scientific activities developed in the urban environment, mainly due to the comforts and conveniences that are easier to find in an urban environment than outside of it.
An example of this type of activity can be the investigation of pollution and its effects in a certain city or urban area.
Religious urban activities
It is about the exercise or celebration of any kind of rites, beliefs and ceremonies in an organized and generally collective way, within the urban limits of a city.
An obvious example is the celebration of worship and attendance of parishioners in Christian churches, Jewish temples (synagogues) and Muslim (mosques).
So are religious celebrations or multi-ethnic religious festivals, such as Christian processions during Holy Week or during the patron saint festivities of a city.
Political urban activities
They are the activities of a political or proselytizing nature carried out by supporters of a certain group, political organization or political party in an urban space.
An example of this activity may be the election of government officials, a rally, an assembly or any other type of concentration.
Urban political activities can also be considered those called or carried out by officials in the exercise of their government responsibilities.
Urban sports activities
They are activities carried out in urban environments whose particular purpose is to carry out sports competitions or events.
Sports activities that are commonly carried out in urban areas can be: athletics, soccer, basketball, tennis, swimming, cycling, etc., They are sports that are easier and more comfortable to perform in urban areas due to the obvious infrastructure, transport, access and services facilities found in cities.
Economic urban activities
The economic activities are perhaps the most diverse and extensive that can be found in all urban activities.
By their nature, urban centers are characterized by developing activities in the so-called secondary and tertiary sectors of the economy.
The secondary sector, also called the industrial sector, is understood to be the sector of the economy that deals with processing and converting the raw material from the primary sector into products and consumer goods.
This sector is mainly made up of two large groups, industrial and construction.
For its part, the tertiary sector includes all those activities that do not deal with the production of consumer goods but specialize in the provision of services.
Secondary or industrial sector activities
Among the urban economic activities that are grouped within the secondary or industrial sector, the following examples can be mentioned:
-Car manufacturing and assembly.
-Preparation and packaging of prepared and frozen foods.
-Manufacture of paper, paper products and derivatives.
-Textile, fabric and clothing manufacturing.
-Printing of books, magazines and newspapers.
-Manufacture of wooden furniture and accessories.
-Manufacture of electronic and precision equipment.
-Manufacture of chemical products, petroleum derivatives, plastic and rubber.
-Steel casting and other non-ferrous metals, such as aluminum.
They are many and of various types, but they have in common that they are all manufacturers: they take raw material and transform it into finished or processed products, either for final consumption or to be used by other industries.
Construction activities
The other group of important activities that make up the secondary sector is construction, taking as examples:
-Construction of buildings, small or large, for industries, offices or homes, hospitals, schools, etc.
-Construction of roads, such as streets, highways, bridges or tunnels.
-Construction of aqueducts, sewers and water treatment or disposal systems.
In many cases, these activities complement the group of industrial activities, since they build physical facilities or buildings for manufacturing companies to establish their machinery and equipment, offices and warehouses there.
Tertiary sector activities
Regarding the urban economic activities that are grouped within the tertiary sector, we can speak of two large groups of activities that comprise it: commerce and services.
The urban economic activities of the commerce sector, include all those activities developed by companies or people dedicated to the storage, distribution and sale of products of all kinds.
Depending on the size and volume of their operations, they can be wholesalers, retailers and retailers, each of these categories forming a particular type of company. The following examples can be mentioned among the many that exist:
-Supermarkets, warehouses and supplies. They store and sell food and hygiene and hygiene items.
-Bookstores, dedicated to the distribution and sale of books, magazines, textbooks and accessories.
-Hardware stores, dedicated to the sale of tools and construction materials, spare parts, etc.
-Restaurants, dedicated to the preparation and sale of meals for immediate consumption.
-Carpentry, make furniture and articles for general or specific use with wood and its derivatives.
Service sector
The urban economic activities of the service sector include all those activities developed by companies or individuals whose purpose is to provide services that are required by a person or group of people to satisfy their needs. Within this group the following examples can be mentioned:
-Services of organization of events and celebrations.
-Services of recruitment and selection of personnel.
-Provision of medical services.
-Services of design, construction, remodeling or repair of buildings.
-Cable TV services.
-Public or private urban cleaning services, gas, electricity and water supply.
-Services of fixed and cellular telephony.
-Public transport services.
-Tourist and hotel services.
-Banking and financial services.
-Maintenance and cleaning services, etc.
References
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- Ignacio and Miguel (pseudonyms). (February 2011). Excerpts from the blog: "Economic Activities". Recovered from actividadeseconomicasgeografia.blogspot.com.
- Alelpenya (pseudonym). (2012, August 12). Excerpts from the article "Secondary sector". Recovered from es.wikipedia.org.