Built env + infrastructure

• what does the built environment refer to?


  aspects of places that are built by humans
• infrastructure refers to?


  the structures built for transport, communications and services

  eg sewer systems
• how can places be characterised directly by their built environment and infrastructure?


  • towns and city centres- higher density buildings and likely have complex dense networks of roads and railtracks etc
  • villages- fewer, smaller buildings- lower density, less complex infrastructure networks. built features like market squares, village halls