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Settlement Patterns

Settlement Patterns. Chapter 4: Settlements. Settlement Patterns. The arrangement of where people live on the earth or in a country, and the factors that influence this arrangement Where people live How they organize/arrange those spaces. Why is it important?.

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Settlement Patterns

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  1. Settlement Patterns Chapter 4: Settlements

  2. Settlement Patterns • The arrangement of where people live on the earth or in a country, and the factors that influence this arrangement • Where people live • How they organize/arrange those spaces

  3. Why is it important? • Understand how people in different parts of the world live • Learn how a settlement connects to its surrounding environment • Understand how people and goods move between places • Understand social problems about where people live and how they use land

  4. Different Types of Settlements • Size • Shape • Appearance • Size: Population Density • Number of people that live in a certain area • Can be written as a ratio of # of people / km2

  5. Hamlet • A small group of houses Cape Dorset aka Kinngait, on Dorset Island, near the southern tip of Baffin Island, Nunavut Oberwil in Waldkirch, St. Gallen, Switzerland

  6. Village • A small community • A few hundred people to a few thousand typical Canela village in Brazil Bisley, Gloucestershire, England

  7. Town Çeşme, Turkey Orangeville, Ontario • A settlement bigger than a village but smaller than a city

  8. City • A large and permanent settlement Brampton, Ontario Sydney, Australia

  9. Metropolis • A city with over a million inhabitants Shanghai, China Population: 13,831,900 Karachi, Pakistan population: 12,991,000 Mumbai, India Population: 13,830,884

  10. Shape & Appearance of Settlements • Population Distribution: • The patterns of where people live • 3 types: • Linear: a small settlement built in a straight or wavy pattern • Low density • Found along roads, railways, rivers/lakes, and along long narrow valleys

  11. Scattered: (dispersed) • a rural settlement where houses are built away from each other • Eg. Farms • The houses may have a barn or other buildings attached, but they are far away from their neoghbours

  12. Clustered: • People live very close together • High density • Built around a core expanding outward and/or upward

  13. Champlain, Quebec

  14. Dharavi slums, Mumbai, India

  15. Toronto, Ontario

  16. Langland Bay - Wales

  17. Mclear, Eastern Cape, Africa

  18. Mngazana, Transkei, South Africa

  19. Moore, Idaho

  20. near Dalhousie,India

  21. Rio De Jeneiro, Brazil

  22. Sun Valley, Idaho

  23. near Hung la, China

  24. Changing Communities and Settlements • Communities are always changing • Leave a place for school, employment, etc. • Cities are growing, taking over farmland • New technologies, and trends

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