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Housing and its Spatial distribution - Coggle Diagram
Housing and its Spatial distribution
Structures or buildings developed to shelter people from weather elements
High rise, High density
Shared facilities such as playgrounds, exercise equipment and swimming pools
Apartments
Low-rise, Low density comprises of
Terraces
Semi-detached houses
Detached houses
Shophouses
Informal Housing
Features
No legal right to occupy land
Lack of access to basic services
Self-built squatter settlements
zinc sheets
recycled lumber
Location
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)
Formal Housing
Features
Built by government or private developers
Acces to basic services
Legal right to occupy land
High-quality building materials
concrete
metal
hard wood
Location
Desirable land
near greenery and amenities
away from pollution
supported with quality infrastructure(roads, piped water, electricity and proper waste disposal)
Factors affecting the Location of housing
Land prices
Higher land prices, more expensive housing
Increase in informal housing to accommodate the rural-urban migrants or the local urban poor
Land-Use Planning
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)
Housing Financial Support
Developers to lower the cost of building houses (might make the developers consider building more houses, preventing housing shortage)
Developers
Private developers
Tend to pick sites that are more commercially viable
Government
Tends to consider people’s needs more than profits