2ND YEAR - RURAL AND URBAN SETTLEMENTS

What is a settlement?

• A village where houses are dispersed across the area.

• A group of people integrated in their environment.

• The process by which people establish homes in a place.

• It is located in areas of agriculture, mining and fishing.

The activity that produces wood and paper is _________.

Depopulation affects rural environments and the consequences are negative: young people leaves and agricultural production ____________.

What is a conurbation?

• Various cities connected together creating a big urban area.

• A central metropolis and satellite cities around.

• A big city that is more than 10 million inhabitants.

• An area of the cities that was built in the 19th century for the upper and middle classes.

Which activities are found in a rural settlement?

• Mining, fishing, farming and industry.

• Livestock, construction, fishing and farming.

• Farming, agriculture, tourism and industry.

• Livestock, farming, fishing and mining.

A concentrated settlement...

• ...has its houses grouped together in a dispersed way.

• ...can be nucleated or linear.

• ...can sometimes be interspersed in montainous areas.

• ...is dispersed across an area of land.

National metropolises...

• ...influence the whole world (Tokyo, New York, London)

• ...influence a country (Madrid, Moscow, New Delhi)

• ...influence the region around (Pamplona, Burgos)

• ...influence part of a country (Valencia, Bilbao)

A slum or shanty town is...

• ...a suburb developed after the Industrial Revolution.

• ...built with waste material, very poor and without minimum services.

• ...unplanned urban development into nearby areas.

• ...a big urban belt with 50 million inhabitants or more.

What kind of layout does this city have?

• Orthogonal, with streets crossing at right angles.

• Circular, it ressembles a spider-web.

• Radiocentric, like Roman and Greek cities.

• Nucleated and irregular.

What kind of settlement can we see in this picture?

• Linear with houses built along a road.

• Interspersed: a main nucleus with dispersed houses around.

• Dispersed across a farming area.

• Nucleated, with houses around a central point.