Settlement: Function and Layout
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This document discusses the functions and layouts of settlements. It defines different types of settlement layouts such as dispersed, linear, and nuclear settlements. It then explains that settlements can have multiple functions that may change over time. Some examples of settlement functions provided include tourist resorts, ports, manufacturing/industrial towns, mining towns, market towns, route centers, service centers, and administrative centers. The document emphasizes that most large settlements like London are multi-functional, with different areas serving different functions.
Settlement: Function and Layout
- 2. What do cities contain? Make a list of at least 5 different land uses you might find in a city.
- 3. Settlement layout Dispersed settlements have no central point. Buildings are scattered. Linear settlements clustered along rivers, creeks and streams, and later along migration routes, railroads and highways. Nuclear settlements occurred along crossroads, at river mouths, adjacent to bays, and near centres of industry.
- 4. What is the function of a settlement? The function of a settlement relates to its economic and social development and its main activities. • Every settlement has a function. • However, most settlements are multi-functional (have more than one function) e.g. London, so different parts of the same settlement often have different functions. • In addition, most settlements have had a change in function over time. For example, Rhondda in South Wales was a coal mining village but now has a tourist function (mining museum).
- 5. Tourist Resorts: usually coastal resorts, e.g. Bournemouth, Blackpool, Brighton Ports: gateway for import/export trade and fishing, e.g. Plymouth, Portsmouth Manufacturing/ Industrial: steelworks, factories or shipbuilding, e.g. Sheffield, Blackburn Mining Towns: based around a coal mine, e.g. Shincliffe (Durham), Merthyr Tydfil Market Town: based around trade, e.g. Guildford Route Centres: central in communications networks, e.g. Swindon Service Centres: centres for local/regional services, e.g. Reading Cultural & Religious: historical attraction e.g. York, Stratford-upon-Avon Residential: designed to accommodate a commuting or resettled population, e.g. Milton Keynes Administrative: tax or registration centres, e.g. Swindon Academic: usually oldest university centres, e.g. Cambridge, Oxford Market Town: based around trade, e.g. Guildford Administrative: tax or registration centres, e.g. Swindon
- 6. “De scribe the distributio n o f diffe re nt functio nalland use s in Lo ndo n” (4) Remember: Patterns and Places (if possible)
- 7. Beijing: A Multi-functional settlement Function Place example(s) Retail/Commercial Residential Port Market Manufacturing Tourism Entertainment Administrative/Government Transport Finance Sport
- 8. Textbook – page 65 q2