Settlement
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- Created on: 01-06-14 14:02
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- Settlements
- How functions of a settlement have changed
- Benidorm in Spain
- 1) It developed as a defensive function of a hill
- 2) Then into a fishing port as it was situated near the coast
- 3) Argriculture became important when water was transferred from inland.
- 4) It became an important tourist destination after roads were built in the area
- Benidorm in Spain
- Why Urban regeneration is needed :Hull
- Suffers from having many unattractive and cheap building developments, high level of unemployment
- Council wasted £650 million, 10,000 empty homes in hull
- Drug related crime, heroin addiction
- Rural depopulation :Western Isles
- Refers to the loss of people from the countryside to the cities.
- Harsh physical environment, sense of remoteness, lack of transport, services and job opportunities
- Closing down of schools and shops, abandoned crops and empty villages
- Deindutrialisation and Urban Redevelopment : London Docklands
- How it's changed and why the decline?
- large boats came down but can no longer fit down the Thames, new transport links, containerisation meant few docks needed meaning low quality housing
- LDDC- London Dockland Development Corperation
- 1970-1980- 30,000 jobs lost 1981 - male unemployment was 24%, twice the national average
- 1981-1998 Impoved houses, prospects of the community, private investment
- How it's changed and why the decline?
- Impact of counter-urbansiation on rural settlements : Walberswick
- Movement from cities to countryside
- Population of 300 and a oil industry, cheap houses, quiet, friendly, surrounded by farm land
- No railway and only two buses a day but there is a main road, hard to leave the village without a car
- Rapid growth of a city in a LIC : Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Increase in waste, rise in crime, traffic increase, homes crowded, poor sanitation
- 4 out of 5 people have stores, people live in slums, have a better lifestyle
- Function Types
- Residential, market town, administrative, strategic, industrial, tourism, cultural or religious, trading
- Land use
- Greenfield - land that has not been used or built on before, often in rural areas, that is being considered for development
- Brownfield - a piece of land that has been previously developed and is now abandoned. These areas are waiting to be redeveloped
- How functions of a settlement have changed
- Harsh physical environment, sense of remoteness, lack of transport, services and job opportunities
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