Essay About Rural Settlement And Urban Areas

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Rural settlement: dispersed or clustered (nucleated) Dispersed 🡪 seen in areas that are largely agricultural in economic nature; individuals own land Canadian and American pioneer experience; land was organized into units and were sold or given away to European migrants coming to canada Dispersed rural settlement patterns -🡪 field patterns; geometric (Canadian farms) vs irregular (European; non geometric) Clustered settlement 🡪 nucleated; clustering together of residential units Very first forms of cities were nucleated settlements that have grown over the years Planned development vs organic development: strategic locations vs  natural points where people cluster e.g. living near your workplace Issues:Depopulation 🡪 people leaving rural areas and moving to urban areas; linked to industrialization because less people needed on farms due to it Farm depopulation 🡪 people leaving farms because of technology Many small towns become ‘ghost towns’ Repopulation or counter-urbanization: contradictory evidence about the existence of urban to rural migration (rural repopulation); cities might get smaller as people move back to smaller areas E.g. tele-commuting; you can live in rural areas and work from home instead of living near your workplace E.g. decentralized industrial activities and ageing population and retirement communities Retirees, wealthy, ‘hobby farmers’ etc; Rural-urban fringe: transition zone between urban (suburban) and rural areas; Not really rural, just on the end of the city Urban sprawl: the largely unpanned (and low density) expansion of urban land uses into surrounding rural areas Government legislation intended to slow urban sprawl: ‘green belts’ which are areas pf ‘no-go’ zone of urban or suburban development; planned area of open, rural (and sometimes natural) land surrounding an urban area; where urban expansion is restricted Differences between way of life in rural and urban areas 🡪 gemeinschaft: relationships between people are more communal and personal in rural areas Gesellschaft: depersonalized and anonymous in urban areas Size, density and heterogeneity in