What are the main forms of settlement?

Settlements can be divided into urban settlements and rural settlements.

1, urban residential area.

It can be defined as a permanent, densely populated place with administrative boundaries, and its members are mainly engaged in non-agricultural tasks. Cities usually have extensive housing, transportation, health, public utilities, land use, commodity production and communication systems.

Their density promotes the interaction among people, government organizations and enterprises, and sometimes benefits different aspects in this process, such as improving the efficiency of goods and services distribution.

2. Rural settlements.

Classification of rural residential areas refers to the classification of rural residential areas according to certain principles or standards. Rural settlements are closely related to the surrounding environment. There are obvious differences in internal components, structure and layout (such as economic function, village form, architectural form and structure, etc.). Rural settlements in different regions have different types of settlements.

Differences between urban settlements and rural settlements;

(1) Agglomeration scale difference. The primary difference between urban and rural areas is mainly reflected in the degree of concentration (or dispersion) of spatial elements.

(2)? Differences in production efficiency. The economic activities of the city are efficient, and the realization of high efficiency is not only due to the high concentration of population, resources, production tools, science and technology, but also due to the high degree of organization.

Therefore, it can be said that urban economic activity is a socialized process of production, consumption and exchange, which gives full play to the functions of industry and commerce, transportation, culture, military and politics and belongs to the nature of advanced production or service; On the contrary, rural economic activities are still attached to primary production factors such as land.