Comtemporary Settlements Flashcards
Clustered rural settlement
Families live in close proximity with. Fields surrounding the collection of houses
How is pop distributed I settlements
1/2 and 1/2
Typical North American rural settlement
Dispersed rural settlement
Farmers living on individual farms isolAted from neighbors
Dispersed rural settlement
Homes barns tool sheds and oth farm structures
Religious structures schools shops
Clustered rural settlements
A clustered rural settlement is called a
Hamlet or village
How is land allocated in clustered rural settlement
Each person is given a strip of land in surrounding fields
2 ways of land ownership in hamlets
1- individuals own or rent
2- land owned collectively by settlement and farmers don’t control the output
What typically encourages clustered rural settlements
Farmers own a collection of scatter parcels of land in several fields. Minimize travel to various fields
Clustered settlements area usually arranged in 2 types of patterns
Circular and linear
Central open space surrounded by structures is called
Circular rural settlement
Buildings clusterd along river, dike. To facilitate communications. Fields extend behind buildings in long narrow strips. Called
Linear rural settlements