An in-depth summary of People & Places - Specifically SETTLEMENTS, including:
1. Definitions
2. Site & Situation
3. Rural Settlements
4. Problems in Rural Settlements
5. Urban Settlements
6. Central Places
7. Towns
8. Urban Profiles
9. Street Patterns
10. Urban Land Use Zones
11. Urba...
,A settlement is a place
where a group of people
live together and
Settlements can be classified as urban or
function together as a
rural according to their size and the kinds of
group.
activities that take place there.
A settlement contains
buildings and
infrastructure around
which specific activities
occur.
Rural settlements are
usually in the countryside
far from cities and towns.
Urban settlements are
cities and towns.
, RURAL URBAN
smallest largest
isolated farmstead town
hamlet / kraal city
village / dorp metropolis
conurbation
megapolis
, Rural settlements are usually quite small; most
people living there are involved in primary activities
such as farming, fishing, forestry or mining. Rural
settlements are, therefore, unifunction (one
function) and have primary activities.
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