Advanced Topic Masters: Rural Settlements

Summary:
This new series of Advanced TopicMasters provides detailed and up-to-date analysis and discussion of key topics in AS/A-level subjects. Written by experienced teachers, authors and examiners, Advanced TopicMasters take students beyond the basic textbooks. Each title explores the key questions and debates surrounding the topic, helping students to identify, analyse, interpret and evaluate the material presented. These skills are developed through a series of short source-based Tasks that appear in each chapter and are accompanied by Guidance notes on how to tackle the questions. Analysis of each topic is illustrated with full colour photographs, charts, tables and diagrams.

• Will help students to: master more complex geographical topics
  

• Will help students to: make best use of up-to-date analysis and data

• Will help students to: improve coursework and exam preparation through specially-tailored exercises

Table of Contents:
Defining rural settlements
Rural settlement patterns
The rural settlement hierarchy
The impact of rural depopulation and rural-urban migration
Case studies: rural depopulation at different scales and the planning responses
The impact of counterurbanisation
Case studies: counterurbanisation and the planning responses

About the Author(s):
David Barker is Head of Geography at Framlingham College and a Senior Examiner at A-Level.