what is settlements write all four types of settlements
Answers
Answer:
Rural settlements in India can broadly be put into four types: • Clustered, agglomerated or nucleated, • Semi-clustered or fragmented, • Hamleted, and • Dispersed or isolated. intervening streets present some recognisable pattern or geometric shape, such as rectangular, radial, linear, etc.
please mark me as branliest and follow me
A settlement is a place where people live. But it also includes the people who live there, the buildings, the roads, streets and pathways which link up the buildings in the settlement and through which the people communicate.
A settlement has a site and a location. The site is the land area on which the settlement is built, it can be at the base of a hill, by a riverside or a plain. The location is its position in relation to other cultural features or settlement in the region.
Let me use major cities in my country as an example. For instance, when we say that Abuja (the capital of Nigeria) is sited on an undulating plain at the foot of Aso rock, we are describing its site. But when we say that it is located at the center of the country and nearly equidistant by air from Lagos, Maiduguri, Sokoto and Calabar, we are describing its location.
Classification of settlements
Settlement are primarily classified according to their pattern, size and housing density. They can also be classified according to the functions they perform.
Classification according to pattern
There are 5 types of settlement classified according to their pattern, these are, isolated, dispersed, nucleated, and linear.
typesofsettlement.png
credit
An isolated settlement consists of a single farm or house very remote from any other one, usually found in farming or hunting rural communities.
A dispersed settlement is made up of several houses, scattered or dispersed (as the name implies). One house may be up to one or more kilometers from the next. This type of settlement is common in the Sahel.
In a nucleated or compact settlement, the buildings are clustered, linked by roads, and the settlement itself may have a nearly circular or irregular shape. Such settlements can be either cultural or urban, depending on the size and the functions they perform.
A linear or elongated settlement forms a straight or curved line, following a line of movement, such as a road, river, coastline or the foot of an elongated escarpment. This type of settlement is found in rural area, but linear developments may constitute extensions of towns on their outskirts.
Finally, the integrated nucleated and linear settlements combines the characteristics of both types of settlement and they are star-like. They often occur at junctions, and a number of them in urban settlements.