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What are the characteristics of a clustered rural settlement?
 
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Briefly discuss clustered circular rural settlements.
 
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Answer: A clustered rural settlement is an agricultural based community in which a number of families live in close proximity to each other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings. A clustered rural settlement typically includes homes, barns, tool sheds, and other farm structures, plus consumer services, such as religious structures, schools, and shops. A handful of public and business services may also be present in the clustered rural settlement, often centered on an open area called a common.

Much of rural England was laid out in clustered settlements. When early English settlers reached New England they originally built clustered settlements. They typically traveled to the New World in a group and wanted to live close together to reinforce common cultural and religious values. The contemporary New England landscape contains remnants of the old clustered rural settlement pattern.

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Answer: The clustered circular rural settlement consists of a central open space surrounded by structures. Von Thnen observed this circular rural pattern in Germany in his landmark agricultural studies in the early nineteenth century. Germany's Gewandorf settlements consisted of a core of houses, barns, and churches encircled by different types of agricultural activities.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maasai people, who are pastoral nomads, build circular settlements known as kraal as camps; women have the principal responsibility for constructing them. The kraal villages have enclosures for livestock in the center, surrounded by a ring of houses.




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