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The word habitat
refers to where animate things live.
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habitat of certain birds, for example, may be a meadow or forest. A human
habitat is more than the houses people live in. It includes settlements
such as camps, hamlets, villages, towns
and cities. |
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The word Habitat
is often used to refer to the UNCHS (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements)
which does not build houses, and to an NGO called Habitat for Humanity
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A human habitat
is not just a collection of empty houses.
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is even far more than the physical structures and facilities that can be
seen. It is a community of people, all the communal facilities they need:
water, sanitation, transport, market, energy, food, health-care, education,
security, as well as shelter itself. |
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The city or
village can not exist without people, came about by the efforts and visions
of people, and ultimately, continues to exist only to serve the needs and
wants of the people who call it home. |
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Settlements and Habitat: |
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and human habitat are far more than the technology of dwellings or houses.
A house exists because of people and for people. A house alone without
communal services, such as access to markets, water and sanitation, enculturation
(eg education) of the young, communications, transport, markets and other
facilities and services, is useless. |
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More importantly,
a human settlement (rural and urban) is not just a collection of infrastructure,
or even of human occupants that are separate consumers; it is a community,
(See "Community"), a social
organization that involves human attributes: beliefs, concepts, economic
and political dimensions, family and other social reproductive institutions,
a set of human languages, traditions, aesthetics and processes. |
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Human settlement
development is community development.
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