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Please read Chapter 12 Key Issue 1 (p.403-405) and identify the different kinds of rural land usage each of the illustrations below represents. Match each with the description listed below, and then make additional notes about each. Most Rural Settlements follow two patterns: clustered – people live close to each other in a village and have farmland outside the residential area dispersed – land is divided into pieces and farmers live on their own land separated from one another common in Russia and Eastern Europe introduced into Quebec and Louisiana by French central and west Europe Brazil and Argentina Mormon villages in Utah rural Latin America and Northeast China farmers live in a village land is fragmented outside village developed by peasant communalism when farmers needed different soils plains areas of Northern and Northwest Europe New England in USA maze of winding, narrow streets and a jumble of farmsteads no planned development Anglo-America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand emigrating Europeans Kind of Village 1. Irregular clustered village 2. Street village 3. Green village Description (match each with a rural development above) \ gridiron pattern of streets, meeting at right angles farmsteads arranged on both sides of a street developed organically over centuries satellite villages develop as original village runs out of land metes and bounds survey – landforms and geometry decide boundary 173
