Settlement

Settlement

1. Early Settlers

   • Pre-Christian
   • Viking
   • Norman
   • Plantation

2. Settler's Needs

   • Water
   • Food
   • Defence
   • Communication

3. Settlement Patterns

   • Dispersed
   • Linear
   • Nucleated

4. Factors that influence the development of settlements

   • Social/Historical Factors
   • Physical Factors
     • Drainage/Rivers
     • Land quality
     • Altitude

5. New Patterns

   • Reclaimed land (the Polders of the Netherlands)

6. Functions

   • Multifunctional e.g. Limerick
   • Market
   • Defence
   • Resource
   • Port
   • Residential
   • Ecclesiastical
   • Recreational

7. Communications

   • Rivers
   • Canals
   • Roads
   • Railways
   • Airports
   • Ports