(a) (i) Functions of the urban settlements: (i) Industrial functions (ii) Mining functions (iii) Tourism functions (iv) Educational functions:
(v) Residential functions. (w) Administrative/ political functions. (vii) Religions/
socio-cultural functions. (viii) Provision of employments. (ix) diffusion of ideas and innovations (x) Information dissemination.
(xi) Provision of social amenities /infrastructure. (xii) Defense. (xiii) Satellite towns. (xiv) Retreat centres for retirees.
(xv) Commercial functions (xv) Port centre. (xvii) Provision of higher order services.
(ii) Functions of rural settlements: (i) Residential (ii) Lumbering (iii) Agricultural / food production (iv) Mining (v) Fishing
(vi) Hunting (vii) Local craft (viii) provision of raw Materials (i.x) Provision of labour.
(x) Trading/ Market (xi) Religious (xii) Custodian of culture and tradition.
(b) Areas of interdependence between rural and urban centres: The urban centres depend on rural centres for (i) Food supply (ii) Housing
(iii) Lumbered wood and fuel (iv) Tourism and recreational sites (v) Unskilled labour. (vi) Sale of manufactured goods
(vii) Medicinal herbs (viii) Raw Materials for industries (ix) Cultural and
traditional history and artifacts.
The rural centres depends on urban centres for. (i) Processed goods
(ii) Social amenities (iii) Administrative and political direction (iv) Higher education (v) Transfer of Modern
technology (vi) Farm inputs (vii) Employment (xiii) Ideas and innovation (ix) Dissemination of information.