Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Settlements.
- Collection of dwellings were people live.
- Nucleated.
- Buildings in a settlement are built close to each other.
- Linear.
- Where buildings are built along a road, river or coast.
- Dispersed.
- Buildings are built far appart from each other, with no particular pattern.
- Rural.
- Advantages are:
- Water supplies are usually found near settlements.
- Flat land, good place to build.
- Good accessibly from roads or railways.
- Natural Resources, such as mines or forests.
- Fair and stable climate.
- Fertile land.
- Urban.
- Advantages
- Many available jobs.
- Good accessibility such as large roads or highways, trains, boat or planes.
- More services such as schools, hospitals, universities...
- Shopping and entertainment facilities.
- Land use.
- CBD/Central Business District.
- Offices, and big companies.
- Residential Areas.
- Where people live.
- Industrial Areas.
- Provision of open spaces.
- Transport Routes.
- Possible patterns.
- MEDC.
- The Burgess' Model.
- The Hoyt's Model.
- LEDC.
- The Waugh's Model.
- Disadvantages of population growth.
- Housing Shortages.
- Traffic congestions.
- Pollution.
- Squatter settlements.
- What affects size and growth of a settlement.
- Accessibility and transport links.
- Services.
- Jobs.
- Entertainment.