PATTERN OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS: AN OVERVIEW

Settlements represent one of the most dominant man made features on the earth in the process of habitation. In the genetic term settlements are more or less permanent abode of an organism. They also represent “an organized colony of human beings together with the buildings in which they live and the paths and streets over which they travel”. Every life style tended to inscribe itself into a typical habitat form. It has also been defined “an all forms of grouping of human habitations as well as the act of peopling a community”. Blache defines them as human establishments add colour to landscape, shaper and building material as well as adaptation to a mode of rural life, or urban, agricultural pastoral, all throw light upon man’s represent or materialistic, intellectual and technological advancement whereby they satisfy their social biological and needs to adapt themselves to their environment. Thus, the settlement represents the spatial arrangement of various functional activities of man at local level including place of residence, street pattern, community places and others.

 

Keywords: Habitation, Human Settlements, Habitat Form, Agricultural Pastoral.


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