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HUMAN SETTLEMENT PATTERNS: RURAL, URBAN, AND SUBURBAN

URBAN

CHARACTERISTICS OF URBAN SETTLEMENTS

  • A community where 1000 or more people live close together.
  • High density of human-created structures.
  • Created, and further developed, by the process of urbanization.
  • physical growth of urban areas (increasing number of people living in an area).

  • Large population (exceeds 1000 persons) and high population density
  • Clustered settlement
  • A lot of tall buildings including residential, commercial, and industrial.
  • Little open space
  • Transportation routes (highways)
  • Competition between land use
  • Land rent is high

RURAL

CHARACTERISTICS OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS

  • Farmland
  • Low population (below 1000 persons)
  • Scattered settlements
  • Industrial
  • Open land

  • Sparsely populated/settled areas.
  • Rural areas usually have a population of fewer than 1000 people and include farms and small communities.

CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBURBAN SETTLEMENTS

SUBURBAN

  • Medium population
  • Transportation to urban area
  • Residential area (housing developments) and some commercial
  • Area just outside of the urban area.

  • Newer communities found at the edges of established cities.
  • Have increased because of transportation routes and means (also the need for residential areas in urban developments).

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