Settlements Flashcards
Settlement
Somewhere people live , it could be a village , a town or a city
What dose a settlement need
A water source
A food source
A way to get materials
Flat land
Settlement hierarchy
Ranking things in order of importance
Urban
A town or city
Rural
The countryside rather than a town
City
A large town
Town
A built-up area with a name and a local government, that is larger than a village and generally smaller than a city
Village
A group of houses larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town which is situated in a rural area
Hamlet
A small settlement generally one smaller than a village and strictly one without a church
3 examples of city’s
London
Tokyo
Moscow
3 examples of towns
Bath
Cambridge
Oxford
3 examples of villages
Kidlington
Horsforth
Cottingham
3 examples of hamlets
Claudius
Ineries
Polonius
Urbanisation
People moving from rural to urban areas
Push factor
Something that makes you want to leave a certain area
Pull factor
Something that makes you want to go to an area
What is in the central business district
Skyscraper Crowded Tourists Shops Traffic
What’s in the inner city
House flats
Old factory’s
Less busy
Lots of rubbish
What’s in the inner suburbs
Cleaner
Detached / semidetached houses
More green space
What’s in the outer suburbs
Bigger detached houses
Gardens
Driveways
Train stations
Linear
Buildings are gerneraly going along the road
Necleated
Buildings are clustered together
Dispersed
The buildings are spreed out
Settlement function
The reason why the settlement was built in the first place
Why do we need more houses
Homeless population increase jobs people want bigger houses
Greenfield sites
An area of countryside or open space that has not yet been built on
Brownfield site
An area of disused and derelict land in an urban area that is available for available for redevelopment
2 disadvantage of greenfield sites
More traffic in the country side
Trees would have to be cut down
2 advantage of greenfield sites
There is nothing to clear
More houses
2 disadvantage of brownfield sites
Traffic jams will get worse
Clearing the land costs money
2 advantage of brownfield sites
Easier to get planning permission
Makes good use of wasted ground
Birth rate
The number of births per thousand per year
Death rate
The number of deaths per thousand per year
Slum
A dirty and overcrowded urban street or housing inhabited by very poor people
List some problems with slums
Crime rate Air pollution House unstable Dirty Open sewers
What are the types of pollution
Air and water
