Land use and urben settlement

Land use and urben settlement

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  Presented By: Mian MuhammadZafar Land use and urban settlement
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  What is Landuse?  Land use is simply the human use of land.  It is the function that humans apply to the land available to them.  The study of land use is the study of how the land is managed, including how the natural world is adapted to human needs. It's
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  Land Use:  Landuse in the urban area is generally conform to a regular predictable pattern the decision to develop a pieces of land for a particular use may be made independently by various private businessmen and women.  The primary reason for allocating a specific use for a land is purely profitable.  The value of land will determine to a large extent the use of such land.  Classifying land use in the urban area is very important in understanding the spatial
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  Urban settlement types Residential settlement  Commercial settlement  Industrial settlement  Agricultural settlement  Transport space
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  Residential settlement  Residentialsettlement is a land used primarily for housing, with limited allocations for uses that are complementary to or serve basic residential uses.  Residential settlement has the largest share of all urban land use.  Residential settlement include individual household unites, dormitories, hotels, parks, motels, and vacant plots.  Residential area generates the greatest amount of garbage in the urban areas.
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  Commercial settlement  Itis surprising that commercial land use contributes a very small proportion of land use in the urban area (about 5%) of the total space of the grouping.  However, the economic impact in terms of employment and sales far outstrip this small space allocation.  The commercial areas also contribute a lot to pollution from automobile, factories and petrochemical plants can result in acidification of lakes resulting from air pollution, other related diseases include ulcers, hypertension and lungs cancer.
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  Industrial settlement  Industrialsettlements are extremely varied, depending on the nature of the industry being considered.  Urban-industrial land usage generally refers to the site of factories or petroleum refineries, and of utilities such as electricity generating stations, and water- and sewage-treatment facilities.
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  Transportation Space  Airports,streets railroads and parking spaces are very large land users in the urban areas.  More than 20% of the land area of a typical urban area is used for transportation relatively activity.
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  Agricultural settlement  Landuses for agriculture and forestry are also types of industrial land uses, in this case involved with the production of food or tree-fiber as renewable resources.  The nature of agricultural settlement depends on the types of crops and agronomic systems, which can vary from intensively managed monocultures to more organic systems involving annual or perennial crops and little use of fertilizers or pesticides.
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