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Describe the patterns of rural settlements with neat diagrams.

Patterns of Rural Settlements

• Rectangular pattern: It is found in plain areas like productive alluvial plains and valley. The roads are rectangular, and they cut perpendicularly.

• Linear Pattern: In this pattern, the houses are aligned along a road or a railway linear along the edge of a river valley along e levee.

• Circular or Semi-circular pattern: This pattern is found along lakes, ponds, craters. They highly depend on blue economy and marine resources.

• Star like pattern: These pattern form due to convergence of several metal and un-metalled roads. Here, the houses are spread out along the sides of the roads in all directions.

• Triangular Pattern: This pattern generally develops at the confluence of rivers. The lateral expansion of houses at the confluence is constrained by the rivers thereby attaining a triangular shape.

• T-Shaped, Y Shaped, Cross Shaped, Crucified settlements: This pattern forms where two roads met with another at Y or T shape. It extends in all four directions.

• Nebular Pattern: This settlement forms where the circular roads end at one point like the nucleus like a temple, mosque, and church.

Rectangular Pattern Linear Pattern

Circular Or Semi-Circular Pattern Star like Pattern

Triangular Pattern T-shaped, Y Shaped, Cross Shaped

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Nebular Pattern