Open AccessTHE TYPOLOGY OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS
Author(s) -
Fauzi Skenderi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
knowledge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2545-4439
pISSN - 1857-923X
DOI - 10.35120/kij3003637s
Subject(s) - typology , human settlement , geography , urbanization , rural settlement , economic geography , rural population , population , rural area , regional science , socioeconomics , economic growth , demography , sociology , political science , archaeology , law , economics
The following article speaks of rural settlements and the ways how are they established. Furthermore, the development of urbanization, the characteristics of the spatial structure of cities and the environmental problems will be discussed. In the geography of settlements, villages as settlements are most often classified according to the following measures: microposition, formation, different demographic elements, physiognomic properties, functions and regional geographic extent. Similarly, we often have such typologies of rural settlements: genetic, demographic, physiognomic, functional and regional typologies of geographic spread of villages. The importantance of the study of rural settlements in the world is shown by the fact that the world's population now lives in 5 million villages and 100,000 cities.Also, the article will focus on the main subheadings of the paper, such as: genetic typology of rural settlements, demographic typology, physiognomic typology, functional typology, regional typology of geographic extent of rural settlements.