How Is Settlement Size Defined?
- NUMBER of PEOPLE living in it
- EXTENT of SPACE COVERED by the whole settlement or by its built up area only
Categories of Human Settlements
Based on:
FMLP
F - FUNCTIONS (their functions and purpose)
M - METHOD (how settlements have been built)
L - LAYOUT (settlement layout: shape/patterns)
P - PERMANENCY (longevity of structures)
Categories of Human Settlements
BASED ON SETTLEMENT LAYOUT
A. Nucleated or clustered
B. Dispersed
C. Linear
BASED ON SETTLEMENT LAYOUT.
Houses grouped together in lumps because of the need for COMMUNICATION, SECURITY and OPPORTUNITIES
A. Nucleated or clustered
- Houses widely separated (usually located in individual farm lots)
- for SECURITY of properties
B. Dispersed
- Houses arranged as elongated on either side of a main road or along shores.
C. Linear
Categories of Human Settlements
BASED ON PERMANENCY
Temporary Settlement
Semi-permanent settlement
Permanent settlement
- used for a while but dismantled later
Temporary Settlement
- inhabited the whole year round
Permanent settlement
- inhabited during certain periods of
the year and not the whole year round
Semi-permanent settlement
The kind of ________ used on the shells has INFLUENCE on but does not decide the permanency of human settlement.
MATERIALS
Categories of Human Settlements
BASED ON METHOD BY WHICH SETTLEMENT HAVE BEEN BUILT
Natural Settlement
Planned Settlement
- built on the basis of a pre-conceived plan
- subdivisions
Planned Settlement
- Have emerged by themselves
Natural Settlement
Categories of Human Settlements
BASED ON THEIR FUNCTION AND PURPOSE
Rural Settlement
Urban Settlement
Institutions
Settlements built for a SPECIFIC PURPOSE AND for a specific GROUP of people which, therefore, have a characteristic location, shells and often times, LAWS and REGULATION.
INSTITUTIONS
engaged primarily in service
URBAN SETTLEMENT
- Serves in the primary production
- Agricultural settlement
- Fishermen’s settlement
- Hunter’s settlement
RURAL SETTLEMENT
