SETTLEMENT PATTERNS

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EARLY SETTLEMENT
PATTERNS
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RECTILINEAR PATTERN
• Originated in agricultural
societies
• Derived from logic of parallel
furrow plowing, it also suited
the logic of ordered land
planning, land ownership and
building construction
• Bounded by Straight lines
• Usually with one or more
corridors crossing the center
CIRCULAR PATTERN
• Derived from practices of
herding societies
• The necessity of enclosing
maximum amount of land
with the minimum amount
of fence, as for a cattle pen,
also suited the logic of
economical fortification
construction
GRID LAYOUT
• Formulated by
Hippodamus, greek town
planning utilized the
rectilinear pattern of
blocks, forming a town
• Refinement of the
rectilinear pattern
• With parallel intersecting
streets
RADIOCENTRIC
• A consequence of incremental urban
growth, radiating from a center and
expanding outward to an urban
periphery.
• Radiocentric growth can be guided by
an overall plan that recognized that
phenomenon
• It can also be guided by smaller-scale
plans for incremental growth
• Natural progression of the
circular form
THE PHILIPPINE COLONIAL SETTING
• The Law of the Indies
1542
• Features
• Plaza is the center of the town
• The plaza should be a square or
rectangle in shape
• No lots around the plaza should be
assigned to private individuals
• Lots around the plaza should be
buildings for the church, the royal
houses (spanish colonial
government structures and for
public use
CONTEMPORARY TYPES
OF SETTLEMENTS
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DISPERSED
• Where the houses
are spread out over
a wide area
• Often homes of
farmers and can be
found in rural areas
LINEAR
• Buildings are
constructed in lines
• Often next to a
geographical feature like
a lakeshore, a rive or
following a road
• Where linear
settlements follow a
road, the road often
predates the settlement
NUCLEATED SETTLEMENTS OR CLUSTERED
SETTLEMENTS
• Its concept is one in
which houses cluster
around a central focal
point which can be a
church or whichever
depending on cultures
and location.
SETTLEMENT PATTERNS
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