urbansettlements
Urban settlements
On this webtask we are going to learn the difference between rural and urban settlements and their development, why people settle down on a specific place and this place grows until it becomes a city, the types of city patterns and the services they provide, but also the problems in big cities and how to manage the urban sprawl
1- Find information about URBAN settlement types and hierarchies on this site. Take into account it has four pages. To find the correct information, you'll have to see the four of them. Then answer these questions:
- What is a settlement? Give examples of two very different settlements.
- Why did people in the past settle in specific places?
- What types of settlements are there?
- What type of settlement do you live in?
- What is a settlement hierarchy? What is bigger, a hamlet or a village? Are there more hamlets than towns?
- Why does a refugee camp can become a settlement?
- Give another name for Burgess model. What can you find in zone 5? Is that true in your own city?
- What is the CBD in a city?
- What can you find there?
- Think of a city like Seville and give examples of Seville's features of CBD.
- Think of another city (London, Seville) and explain the main features why they were chosen to be a settlement (Look at the settlement functions) .
- What is the rural-urban fringe? What type of things can you find there?
- Look at the rural settlement patterns:
- give an example of nucleated settlement, linear settlement and dispersed settlement
Urbanization can cause a number of problems such as transport congestion, lack of sufficient housing, over-rapid growth and environmental degradation.
Authorities should try to make cities more sustainable. Find out the meaning of sustainable on this site and read the key features of a sustainable city.
Then think of your city and write in which way things have to change to make it more sustainable.
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