Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Settlements
- Why Built and Where
- Protection (Height)
- A Good view = See Enemies
- Water Supply
- Fresh water = Drinking and cleaning =Living
- Bridging point
- Ways to get out of Settlements = Boat and Bridge
- Danger of Wet Point Sites
- Danger= Flooding
- Flat Land
- Flat Land = Farming and Easy Building
- Wood Supply
- Building a house and Defences
- Building Materials
- Wood and Mud = Housing
- Aspect and Shelter
- Protection from = Wind also helps farm land
- How to identify and Settlement
- Site
- The Exact location of a settlement and why people are located there
- Situation
- The location of a Settlement in relation to surroundings physically and human factors
- Rural Settlement Patterns
- Dispersed
- Individual buildings spread out no obvious centre E.g Farming villages E.g Oborne
- Nucleated
- Settlements have Individual buildings closely together. E.g Bristol
- Linear
- Built along rivers or long roads. E.g Longburton
- Counter-Urbanisation
- Movement of population from towns and Cities to live in Rural areas
- Depopulation of major Urban areas
- Growth of Rural areas beyond city
- Boundary between rural and Urban areas becomes less obvious
- Pull Factors
- Gardens
- Good Water Supply
- Parks
- Fresh Air
- Push Factors
- Too many Factories
- Population
- No place for children
- Congestion
- Rural Depopulation
- Hebrides
- Situation: North West of Scotland
- Spread out population
- No Secondary schools on Island
- Causes
- Harsh Physical environment
- Lack of Transport
- Not Enough Work
- Lack of sexual partners
- Impacts
- Less Business
- Empty villages
- Costs will go up
- more fish
- Case Study : Western Isles of Scotland
- Lewis, Harries and Burra.
- Nearest Large city Inverness
- Nearest Mainland port are Mallaig
- 2-150 miles away from Mainland
- Population on the downfall about 3000 each 10 years.
- Burgess Model
- 2: Factories/ Industry
- Built next to CBD
- 4: Medium Class Residential
- De-industrialisation happen more = tertiary jobs better housing
- 5: High class Residential
- High quality housing
- 1:CBD
- Tourist activity and Work
- 3: Low class Residential
- Built near Factories so the workers could walk to work. Low Quality housing
- Housing Demand
- Social Reasons
- Ageing population
- Rise in Divorces
- Marrying later
- Economic Reasons
- UK Population is Wealthier
- House prices = more people livng in smaller dwellings
- Political Reasons
- Rise in population so 3 million new homes
- Designated growth areas such as Ashford,
Milton Keynes and M11 corridor
- Government is developing Eco-Towns