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
expansion of the irregular clustered village and the hamlet
Kind of Village
1. Irregular clustered village2. Street village3. Green village4. Isolated farmsteads, unit block farms5. Row village, long-lot farms6. Hamlet 7. Checkerboard village8. Loose irregular 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 long, thin farmsteads around road, river, canal farmsteads grouped around a central open area (called
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