Settlement Change

Question 1

What does site mean?

Answer 1

The land its built on - height, gradient, area, aspect

Question 2

What is meant by situation on settlement?

Answer 2

Distance and direction from other named features

Question 3

What is meant by nucleated/clustered?

Answer 3

The building are very squashed together

Question 4

What is meant by dispersed/fragmented?

Answer 4

Building are very spread out

Question 5

What is meant by linear/ribbon?

Answer 5

Buildings are in a line

Question 6

What are some physical reasons for settlement?

Answer 6

• built near water sources
• south facing aspect - more sun, crops easier to grow
• high up - less floods

Question 7

What are some human reasons for settlement?

Answer 7

• where lots of roads are
• towns by the sea for tourism
• by a castle - used in olden times for protection
• bridges around settlement

Question 8

What was the function of Oxford?

Answer 8

Education - good universities, colleges and schools near by

Question 9

What is the definition of function?

Answer 9

The reason why a settlement was first started

Question 10

What is the definition of counter urbanisation?

Answer 10

The movement of people out of the city to the countryside

Question 11

What are the push factors to get OUT of the city?

Answer 11

• noise
• bulgulary
• congestion
• pollution

Question 12

What are the pull factors to MOVE to the countryside?

Answer 12

• more space - detached houses
• good retirement place - quiet
• pretty views
• good and safe communities

Question 13

What are the positive and negative impacts of counter urbanisation on tenbury?

Answer 13

P-more customers-builders, increased trade for local communities
N-more congestion, local people can no longer afford to buy a house - move away from town

Question 14

What is definition of rural depopulation?

Answer 14

Moving away from remote islands like the Western Isles in Scottland to the city

Question 15

What are push factors that people would want to move out of countryside?

Answer 15

• poor signal/Internet
• little roads and shops
• no education
• isolated

Question 16

What are the pull factors to move into the city?

Answer 16

• good transport
• lots of jobs to offer
• good education - universities

Question 17

Starting from the Middle name all the places in the city?

Answer 17

Inner city, suburbs, rural urban fringe, green belt

Question 18

What would be in the central business district?

Answer 18

• shops
• no garden
• 1-2 bedrooms

Question 19

What would the houses be like in the industry section?

Answer 19

• no garden
• parking
• 1-2 bedrooms

Question 20

What would the houses be like in the low class residential?

Answer 20

• terraced house
• small gardens
• parking

Question 21

What would the houses be like in the medium class residential?

Answer 21

• semi detached
• gardens
• driveways

Question 22

What would the houses be like in the high class residential?

Answer 22

• detached
• gardens
• driveways
• 3-4 bedrooms

Question 23

Why is there a rising demand for new housing in the UK?

Answer 23

• many people own more than one for renting them out
• more people getting divorced 30% more
• immigration rising 58.8 million to 62.2 million
• birth rate increasing

Question 24

What is the definition of deindustrialisation?

Answer 24

When an industrial building moves from the centre of the city to the urban fringe

Question 25

Why might deindustrialisation happen?

Answer 25

• small space
• too congested near inner city
• old
• cheaper land

Question 26

What is the definition greenfield site?

Answer 26

A site for new homes that has NOT been built on before

Question 27

What are the advantages/disadvantages of a greenfield site?

Answer 27

A: modern homes - energy efficient, cheaper land, plenty of space, easy to sell-because gardens,nice views
D: distrub habitats, spoil views, more congestion, takes up farmland-less food

Question 28

What is the definition of a brownfield site?

Answer 28

A site that has already been built on.

Question 29

What are the pros/cons of a brownfield site?

Answer 29

Pros: close to city centre, gas and electric already present, planning permission easier, environmentally friendly-notes trying habitats
Cons: homes harder to sell-so small and no gardens, have to be decontaminated to remove pollution-expensive

Question 30

What is the definition of redevelopment?

Answer 30

When building are demolished and replaced with new ones

Question 31

What is the definition of renewal?

Answer 31

When old buildings are repaired and converted to a new use

Question 32

What are the reasons for rapid urban growth in LICs?

Answer 32

Urbanisation- more jobs, more schools

More young move for education or work

Question 33

Where is the case study?

Answer 33

Cario in Egypt - an example of a rapidly growing LIC city

Question 34

What are the reasons for urban growth in Cario?

Answer 34

-moving for jobs

Question 35

What are the effects of growth in Cario?

Answer 35

• air pollution - 37% suffer from lung problems
• produces 10,000 tonnes of waste and only 60%is collected
• 80%of untreated water from industry foes into rive Nile
• 1 million people live in graves

Question 36

What are the positive effects?

Answer 36

Large pool of workers

Never shirt of people who don’t wanna go low paid jobs

Question 37

How many people live in Cario?

Answer 37

Grows 500,000 a year