THE TYPOLOGY OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS

The following article speaks of rural settlements and the ways how are they established. Furthermore, the development of urbanization, the characteristics of the spatial structure of cities and the environmental problems will be discussed. In the geography of settlements, villages as settlements are most often classified according to the following measures: microposition, formation, different demographic elements, physiognomic properties, functions and regional geographic extent. Similarly, we often have such typologies of rural settlements: genetic, demographic, physiognomic, functional and regional typologies of geographic spread of villages. The importantance of the study of rural settlements in the world is shown by the fact that the world's population now lives in 5 million villages and 100,000 cities. Also, the article will focus on the main subheadings of the paper, such as: genetic typology of rural settlements, demographic typology, physiognomic typology, functional typology, regional typology of geographic extent of rural settlements.