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2. Rural settlements

- Rural houses are usually used both as homes and workplaces

- They are built using materials from the surrounding area

Examples:

–Dry zones: Mud huts and adobe huts

–Temperate zones: masía and cortijo

–Cold zones: Inuit igloo.

2.1. Rural settlements patterns

- Rural settlements group together houses and outbuildings in rural areas, and are smaller than cities.

- There are three types of rural settlement, : Dispersed, concentrated and interspersed.

- Dispersed: Houses are dispersed across the area, This type of settlement is found in mountanious areas.

- Concentrated: houses are grouped together to form a village or town.

- Interspersed settlements: Combination of the dispersed and concentrated models. It has a main nucleus, various smaller nuclei and houses dispersed thorughout the surrounding area.