Book: Landscape Planning and Environmental Impact Design: from EIA to EID
Chapter: Chapter 11 Urbanisation and growth management
A settlement may be required in a place which is attractive for residential use or because it has speical job opportunities (eg a mining town). Economic trends may cause people to spend their working lives in or near a metropolis. But in vacation time they go elsewhere. Tourism continues to provide a resource-based reason for settlement location, in areas of high scenic and environmental quality. The demand is for 'villages' rather than 'towns'.