Settlement dynamics

A process of population de- centralization where an increasing number of people move out of large urban areas to rural areas or smaller urban settlement

• Counterurbanisation

• Urban Revolution

• Urban growth

A process where a population of a city, after a period of clear decline, begins to rise again

• Suburbanisation

• Land Use Zoning

• Reurbanisation

A process in which wealthier people move into, renovate and restore run-down housing in an inner city or other neglected area.

• Global city

• Gentrification

• Accesibility

The decrease in population of rural areas

– by out-migration and falling birth rates

• Urbanisation

• Counterurbanisation

• Rural depopulation

Areas of open land retained around city where

development is restricted

• Green Belt

• Global City

• Rural Landscape

The process of decentralization where an increasing number of urbanites, especially the affluent ones, move from large urban areas to smaller urban areas and rural areas.

• rural depopulation

• urbanisation

• counterurbanisations

The outward growth of town and cities to engulf surrounding villages/ rural areas

• suburbanisation

• urban growth

• counterurbanisation

It is a settlement that is usually a single house or a series of buildings that exist far from others. These types of houses are typically in rural areas maybe connected with a farm or an industry that requires a lot of space.

• Hamlet

• Village

• Isolated Dwelling

• Megacity

It refers sizes of the settlement arranged in different levels.

• Settlement Types

• Settlement Hierarchy

• Changes in Settlements

• Settlement Patterns

This settlement pattern involves a number of buildings or houses not that close to each other but are within the same locality.

• Dispersed

• Isolated

• Nucleated

• Linear