Settlement Change

Question 1

What are the seven settlement functions?

Answer 1

Market Centre
Administrative
Tourist Centre
Strategic
Industrial
Residential
Agricultural

Question 2

Define ‘Market Centre’ and give the UK case study

Answer 2

Generating money through retail, usually with a market square
Petersfield

Question 3

Define ‘Administrative’ and give the UK case study

Answer 3

Keeps the country/ settlement running, they will often contain financial centres, government offices and head offices of large companies
London

Question 4

Define ‘Tourist Centre’ and give the UK case study

Answer 4

Attract tourists to generate money for the settlement

Blackpool

Question 5

Define ‘Strategic’ and give the UK case study

Answer 5

Key function of defence or controlling territory

Portsmouth

Question 6

Define ‘Industrial’ and give the UK case study

Answer 6

Many of the areas local jobs are involved with manufacturing

Sheffield

Question 7

Define ‘Residential’ and give the UK case study

Answer 7

Provides homes for residents of the area

Edinburgh (most settlements include this)

Question 8

Define ‘Agricultural’ and give the UK case study

Answer 8

Generates money for the area through farming

Villages in rural areas

Question 9

What is the case study for changing settlement functions?

Answer 9

Lymington- South of the New Forest, Hampshire, south coast of the UK

Question 10

What was Lymington like in the 11th century?

Answer 10

Small port and market town
Excellent fishing opportunities
Good transport via boat

Question 11

What was Lymington like in the 17th&18th century?

Answer 11

Manufacturing centre
Salt industry was at large
Produced salt for the whole UK
5 mile stretch of coastline guaranteed supplies

Question 12

What was Lymington like in the 19th century?

Answer 12

Cheaper imports became available and the salt industry declined
Town relied more on market and fishing

Question 13

What is Lymington like now?

Answer 13

Popular as retirement and second home areas
Close to some busy cities
Good southern climate
15,000 inhabitants
Sailing and ships to the IoW

Question 14

What is the Depopulation case study?

Answer 14

Western Isles, Scotland

Question 15

What is the Counter Urbanisation case study?

Answer 15

Appledore

Question 16

What are the five causes of demand for more housing?

Answer 16

42% of marriages end in divorce
People have children and want larger houses
People migrate to the country
Old people are living longer and need the houses for longer
People become richer and buy second homes

Question 17

What is an Urban Fringe?

Answer 17

New housing estates built on outer edge of a built up area around villages, use of greenfield site

Question 18

What is an Inner City?

Answer 18

Blocks of flats and gated communities built on brownfield sites

Question 19

What is a Commuter Belt?

Answer 19

New housing estates built around existing towns and sites, eco-towns built on brownfield sites

Question 20

What is a Suburb?

Answer 20

Intensification by garden grabbing and infilling vacant spaces with new housing

Question 21

What is the case study for options of places to build?

Answer 21

Dorchester (Mr Grahams upbringing)

Question 22

What is the case study for regenerating settlements?

Answer 22

Newham- in the 1980s the docks were closed and the sugar factory shut down, 10,000 people lost their jobs

Question 23

What is the case study for LIC urban growth?

Answer 23

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Question 24

What are the seven impacts of rapid urban growth in LICs?

Answer 24

Traffic congestion
Reduced pressure on resources (rural areas)
Bostis Growth
Lack of good jobs
Remittance payments (help rural families)
Increased child labour
Pollution and disease