TEST
Cities built by the sea
TUTOR:
OK, so what I’d like you to do now is to talk to your partner about your presentations on
urban planning. You should have done most of the reading now, so I’d like you to share
your ideas, and talk about the structure of your presentation and what you need to do next.
CARLA:
OK Rob. I’m glad we chose quite a specific topic – cities built next to the sea. It made it
much easier to find relevant information.
ROB:
Yeah. And cities are growing so quickly – I mean, we know that more than half the world’s
population lives in cities now.
CARLA:
Yeah, though that’s all cities, not just ones on the coast. But
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most of the biggest cities
are actually built by the sea. I’d not realised that before.
ROB:
Nor me. And what’s more, a lot of them are built at places where rivers come out into the
sea. But apparently this can be a problem.
CARLA: Why?
ROB:
Well, as the city expands, agriculture and industry tend to spread further inland along the
rivers, and so agriculture moves even further inland up the river. That’s not necessarily a
problem, except
