What affects land-use patterns?
Land-use patterns are largely dependent on cultural traditions, the accessibility of resources, and the environment. This explains why certain crops are present in one region, but not in others- it all depends on the agricultural land use! The real question is, how do we differentiate between various rural settlement patterns and what rural survey methods are out there?
Rural Settlement Patterns
These settlement patterns are special to the region that they originated from, but they have also influenced other regions around the world through diffusion and colonization. You should know the following rural settlement patterns for the AP Exam:
Clustered
Families live in close proximity to each other
Agriculture based community- composed of houses and farm buildings
Fields surround the community
Dispersed
Farmers live in their own, individual farms - isolated from other farmers
Separated, spread out community (unlike clustered)
Linear
Buildings run along a fixed landscape (i.e. a road, river, canal)
Buildings form a straight line
Clustered settlement - small to medium-sized
Rural Survey Methods
Long Lot
Land is divided into narrow lots perpendicular to a river, road, or canal
These lots stretch from buildings or houses to the river, road, etc.
Gives everyone equal access to the “resource” (i.e. the river, road, or whatever else the lot connects to)
Metes and Bounds
Defines the boundaries of a piece of land based on the physical landscape, directions, and distances
Metes = a specific, measured boundary
Bounds = a general boundary (waterways, walls, existing buildings, etc)
Township and Range
Land is divided into six-mile square blocks (townships) and divided again into one-mile square blocks (range)
Ranges are broken further into smaller parcels for people to develop
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🗺 Unit 1: Thinking Geographically
👪 Unit 2: Population & Migration
🕌 Unit 3: Cultural Patterns & Processes
🗳 Unit 4: Political Patterns & Processes
👨🌾 Unit 5: Agriculture & Rural Land-Use
🌇 Unit 6: Cities & Urban Land-Use
💸 Unit 7: Industrial & Economic Development
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