Linear settlement

Others form due to physical restrictions, such as coastlines, mountains, hills or valleys.

Later development may add side turnings and districts away from the original main street.

A linear settlement is in contrast with ribbon development, which is the outward spread of an existing town along a main street, and with a nucleated settlement, which is a group of buildings clustered around a central point.

Sułoszowa, Poland, is notable for its 9 km long, single main street and its thin strips of farm land, inhabited by 6000 people.

[4] Such designs have been criticized as expressing a simplistic understanding of the process of urban growth and ignoring the human factor in design, resulting in inefficiency and limited growth potential.

Some communities along the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec , Canada, developed as linear settlements, as is still clearly seen in Champlain
A sketch of a street village