Settlements

What is a settlement?

• A village where houses are dispersed across the area.

• A group of people integrated in their environment.

• The process by which people establish homes in a place.

• It is located in areas of agriculture, mining and fishing.

Which activities are found in a rural settlement?

• Mining, fishing, farming and industry.

• Livestock, construction, fishing and farming.

• Farming, agriculture, tourism and industry.

• Livestock, farming, fishing and mining.

A concentrated settlement...

• ...has its houses grouped together in a dispersed way.

• ...can be nucleated or linear.

• ...can sometimes be interspersed in montainous areas.

• ...is dispersed across an area of land.

Colonial cities...

• ...were built thousands of years ago by Roman settlers.

• ...were usually designed with an orthogonal grid layout.

• ...were surrounded by suburbs for wealthy people.

• ...were built in Latin America in the 19th century.

What advantages does city life offer?

• A lot of rich people are concentrated in residential areas.

• It offers jobs, universities and services.

• It concentrates poor citizens in shanty towns.

• Green areas, absence of pollution and no cultural and social conflicts.

Which are some negative consequences of urban expansion?

• Destruction of the land and increasing global warming.

• The use of electric cars and public transport.

• Water purification and closing down industries.

• It consumes large amounts of water, energy and food.

The arrival of immigrants into the cities...

• ...has brought urban sprawl and traffic congestion.

• ...has brought greater cultural diversity.

• ...has only produced tensions, discrimination and xenophobia.

• ...has produced enormous conurbations.

Name the land use shown in this photograph.

• Settlement
• Commercial
• Residential
• Recreational

State the urban problem shown by the photograph:

• Poverty
• Crime
• Congestion
• Diseases

Push factors are:

• Negative
• Positive
• Pull factors
• attracting people to urban areas.