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Flashcards by Jan Kowalski, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jan Kowalski
almost 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Settlement | It's where people live |
| Urban | A large built-up area with large areas of land being used for housing (town or city) |
| Rural | A small settlement in the countryside (hamlet or village) |
| Nucleated settlement shape | Made up of a cluster of buildings, usually around a central point, e.g. crossroads, bridge |
| Linear settlement shape | Long and thin (ribbon-shaped), these develop along a road or river valley or in an area where flat land is limited |
| Dispersed settlement shape | Scattered across the countryside and surrounded by farmland, such as farms and isolated buildings |
| Where settlements were first built | Water supply Relief (flat or gently sloping land) Soil (fertile?) Shelter (rain or winds, e.g. valley) Defence (e.g. on hill, between rivers) |
| Functions of an urban settlement | The function of an urban settlement is its main economic activity or purpose (e.g. mining) |
| Settlement hierarchy | It shows how settlements in any area can be put in order based on their size or services that they provide |
| High vs low order settlements | High order settlements have a higher population size and number of services (including high order services) than low order settlements |
| Sphere of influence | The area surrounding an activity that is influenced by it, e.g. a sports centre |
| High order vs low order services | Low order services are those that are used more often than high order services (general store vs wedding dresses). Comparison goods are found in HOS: they are expensive, so we don't buy them very often so we will go to a number of shops to compare goods and their prices |
| Burgess model | Bases on circles of different land use coming out of the city centre outwards with decreasing land value |
| Hoyt model | Based on the circles of land use and value form Burgess model, but adds sectors of similar land use, e.g. the industrial zones |
| Urbanisation | The process by which increasing proportion of people live in towns and cities instead of the countryside. This could be the result of natural increase and/or migration |
| Problems and solutions for them for increasing population size in cities | Lack of houses to live in --> build more houses Lack of places in schools --> build new schools Big traffic --> expand road infrastructure Waste disposal --> encourage recycling Lack of places in hospitals --> increase hospital funding |
| Sardinia case study | Look through Sardinia case study |
| Threshold population | Minimum number of people living in the area required for a service to be profitable |
| Atlanta case study | Look through Atlanta case study |
| Lima case study | Look through Lima case study |
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