Settlements Flashcards
(36 cards)
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