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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