Housing and its Spatial distribution
Structures or buildings developed to shelter people from weather elements
High rise, High density
Low-rise, Low density comprises of
Terraces
Semi-detached houses
Detached houses
Shophouses
Shared facilities such as playgrounds, exercise equipment and swimming pools
Apartments
Informal Housing
Formal Housing
Features
Location
Features
Location
Built by government or private developers
Acces to basic services
Legal right to occupy land
High-quality building materials
- concrete
- metal
- hard wood
No legal right to occupy land
Lack of access to basic services
Self-built squatter settlements
- zinc sheets
- recycled lumber
Desirable land
- near greenery and amenities
- away from pollution
- supported with quality infrastructure(roads, piped water, electricity and proper waste disposal)
Locally-Unwanted-Land-Use (L-U-L-U)
- near landfills
- sewage treatment plants
- large polluting industries
- industrial sites ( to save time and cost by living near their workspace)
Factors affecting the Location of housing
Land prices
Land-Use Planning
Housing Financial Support
Developers
Zoning (restricts types of activities and land-use permitted on specific sites)
- Restricts the amount of land area is used for housing
- Other areas use for other activities (educational, recreational, commercial)
Private developers
Government
Tends to consider people’s needs more than profits
Tend to pick sites that are more commercially viable
Higher land prices, more expensive housing
Increase in informal housing to accommodate the rural-urban migrants or the local urban poor
Developers to lower the cost of building houses (might make the developers consider building more houses, preventing housing shortage)