Development of Settlement Geography: Contributions from Germany, France, and Others

Development of Settlement Geography has been influenced by major contributions from countries like Germany, France, and other European nations. German scholars like Carl Ritter and August Meitzen focused on house types and urban centers, while French geographers like Vidal de La Blache emphasized rural settlement studies. Contributions from other European countries and Anglo-American scholars further enriched the field with theories on habitat development and cultural landscape forms.

• Settlement Geography
• Development
• Germany
• France
• European Contributions

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1. II. M.Sc. APPLIED GEOGRAPHY POPULATION AND SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY TOPIC : DEVELOPMENT OF SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY 13.08.2020 Presented by S. MAHEAWARI GUEST LECTURER IN GEOGRAPHY GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (A) KUMBAKONAM

2. DEVELOPMENT OF SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY Following is a important contribution to development of settlement geography : German Contribution French Contribution Contribution of Other European Countries Anglo-American Contribution Indian Contribution to Settlement Geography

3. GERMAN CONTRIBUTION The earliest contribution to settlement geography is traceable in the German geographical literature Carl Ritter(1800) and E. Friedrich=Two themes: 1. House types in which distribution, architecture and building materials of settlement were studied 2. Urban centers August Meitzen : Two type classes of rural settlement 1. Agglomerated 2. Isolated Dwelling

4. O.Schluter: 1. Remark on the Geography of Settlement. 2. The Geography of Settlement in Central Europe Robert Hradmann: The development of settlement geography who included four important featurers: residence, village form, house and field R. Martiny: to study of rural settlement geography in forms of villages im Germany and concluded that the feild patterns, type of house and morphology were the part and parcel Walter Christaller: Central Place Theory(1933) he analysed the sizes, spacing, hierarchical, size and

5. FRENCH CONTRIBUTION In France mainly study about the rural settlement i.e. House forms, house building materials Vidal de La Blache Jean Brunhes Albert Demangeon Annales Jean Gottman Raoul Blanchard

6. CONTRIBUTION OF OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES function, age, architecture, nature and development of habitats as essential topics of the settlement geography. Miss Lefevre : she included the origin, distribution, type, Ahlman J.G. Grano J. Kral Patrik Geddes (Conurbation) 1. Eotechnic 2. Palaeotechnic 3. Neotecnic Luis Mumford C.B. Fawcett and T.W.Freeman

7. ANGLO-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION C.F. Kohn K.H. Stone T. G. Jordon: The study of the form of the cultural landscape 1. Vertical arrangement 2. Horizontal arrangement 3. The material composition American Geographers developed by 1. Concentric zone theory 2. The sector theory 3. Multiple nuclei theory 4. Rural-Urban fringe

8. STATE OF SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY IN INDIA R.L. Singh: 1. Rural settlement in Monsoon Asia 2. Geographic Pattern of Rural Settlement S.P. Chaterjee A.B.Mukherjee R.C. Tiwari, etc.

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