city+land+use

Rio de Janeiro is one of the world’s major cities. Majority of Rio land is used in the downtown area for big industries, and market places which have multiples house facilities with in them. The rest of the city area is used for old building that mean much to the people of Rio. While this city is modernizing they continue to build newer and bigger buildings used for shopping malls and business headquarters. Cultural characteristics have densely affected the city land use because of the multiple statues, tributes and monuments dedicated to the important people of Rio’s history.

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Their culture has also changed the land use because of their religious sites and the old building structures that have religious meaning.Rio uses its land to show off their many entertaining features like their beaches and other famous sites, that attract tourist there. Some of the multiple sites are places like Guanabara Bay, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and “Cristo Redentor” (the Jesus statue).=====