Settlements
Subjects / GCSE Essentials / Human Geography
Topic Price: £14.95 Title Duration: 33mins
A settlement is a place where people live, and settlements are a key part of Human Geography. They can vary in size, from a single house to somewhere as large as a mega city.
A settlement can be classed as dispersed - that is an isolated building or small group of buildings; nucleated, when several buildings are grouped together; or linear, where buildings are strung out along a line of communication such as a main road. These types of settlements can all be spotted on an Ordnance Survey map. During the course of this title we will investigate the different criteria used to describe settlements, before looking at how cities are defined. We will also discuss how urbanisation has many causes and effects, such as conflict on the rural-urban fringe.
This title is also available in Geography - Settlements and Urban Development
| Author: | Sharon Richardson | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Stuart Blackburn | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-063-9 |
Chapters
- Site and Situation
- Settlement Functions
- Urban Hierarchies
- Urban Models
- Urbanisation: Causes and Consequences
- The De-Centralised City
- The Rural-Urban Fringe
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art. Additional pictorial images created by Damon Smith
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
- Describe and explain the economic factors which affect the growth of settlements
- Describe and explain the economic factors which affect the location of settlements
- Describe and explain the economic factors which affect the shape of settlements
- Describe and explain the physical factors which affect the growth of settlements
- Describe and explain the physical factors which affect the location of settlements
- Describe and explain the physical factors which affect the shape of settlements
- Function - types of settlements and how their function may change over time
- How and why is land use within settlements changing?
- How are these changes affecting the quality of life?
- Is there a link between the size and location of a settlement and its functions?
- Many siting factors important in the past are now no longer important due to a technological change
- Recall and explain the characteristics and locations of the CBD in one named LEDC city
- Recall and explain the characteristics and locations of the CBD in one named MEDC city
- Recall and explain the characteristics and locations of the different residential zones in one named LEDC city
- Recall and explain the characteristics and locations of the different residential zones in one named MEDC city
- Recall and explain the characteristics and locations of the industrial areas in one named LEDC city
- Recall and explain the characteristics and locations of the industrial areas in one named MEDC city
- Recall and explain the characteristics and locations of the twilight zone in one named LEDC city
- Recall and explain the characteristics and locations of the twilight zone in one named MEDC city
- Settlements with a favourable site especially in respect of communications eg. gap towns, route centres and bridging points often grew into trading centres
- Site - dry and wet point, aspect, shelter, defence, resources and communications
- Size - the hierarchy of settlement linked to population size, services and sphere of influence
- The characteristics of the urban zones - inner city in the MEDC
- The characteristics of the urban zones - shanty towns in the LEDC
- The characteristics of the urban zones - suburbs in the MEDC
- The characteristics of the urban zones - the CBD in the LEDC
- The characteristics of the urban zones - the CBD in the MEDC
- The characteristics of the urban zones - the high class sector in the LEDC
- The characteristics of the urban zones - the rural urban fringe in the MEDC
- The initial location of a settlement may be closely related to site characteristics
- The settlements sphere of influence will affect ts growth and functions. These functions can change through time
- Urban morphology models of an MEDC and LEDC city - contrast in morphology
- What affects the location of individual settlements?
- What factors influence social and cultural patterns in towns and cities?
- Where are different activities located within settlements?
- Why are some settlements growing while others are declining?
Titles
- A study of one urban area in an MEDC to describe and explain the characteristics and locations of the CBD, twilight zone, industrial areas and different residential zones.
- A study of one urban area in LEDC to describe and explain the characteristics and locations of the CBD, twilight zone, industrial areas and different residential zones.
- Causes and consequences of rural to urban migration. Strategies to improve the quality of life and improve sustainability in squatter settlements.
- Changes in rural areas.
- Economic activity can seriously damage the physical environment.
- Physical and economic factors affecting the location, shape and growth of settlements.
- Physical and economic site factors related to location and growth of settlements
- Provision of services in urban and rural areas.
- Settlement hierarchy
- Settlements vary in site, size, function and structure
- Strategies to improve the quality of life in urban areas.
- The characteristics of land use zones in urban areas.
Chapters
- A case study of an urban area to illustrate the characteristics of the central business district, inner zones and outer suburbs, the rural/urban fringe eg Swansea
- economic factors, eg mineral resources, transport
- economic factors, eg, transport links, mineral resources, port functions
- How considerations of sustainable development affect planning and management
- How considerations of sustainable development affect planning and management. A case study of urban traffic management eg transport planning in Glasgow
- Making settlements sustainable
- physical factors, eg drainage, water supply
- physical factors, eg, drainage, gradient, water supply
- Provision of goods and services by settlements of different sizes.
- Push' and 'Pull' factors
- Reasons for land use patterns within a selected settlement.
- Reasons for the growth and decline of population, activities and area of two selected settlements
- Reasons for the location of settlements.
- shanty town development
- site descriptions, eg wet point, defensive site, bridging point
- Site descriptions, eg, dry point, bridging point
- Social and cultural patterns within cities
- social and economic changes to village populations
- Students should be able to describe and explain the characteristics of the zones
- The benefits, problems and issues associated with growth and decline of settlements, together with their effect on the quality of life
- The causes and consequences of urban to rural migration
- The different typical patterns of an LEDC city. Reasons for the patterns in relation to a case study of a city, eg, why high quality housing tends to be found near the middle of Sao Paulo
- The different typical patterns of an MEDC city. Reasons for the patterns in relation to a case study of a city, eg, why high quality housing tends to be found around the edge of London
- The effect of changes in transport, economic activity and ways of life on land use within a selected settlement
- the effects on rural areas
- the impact of second homes
- The interdependence of a town and its surrounding area to illustrate the hierarchy of neighbourhood centres
- The interdependence of a town and its surrounding area to illustrate the hierarchy of out of town shopping centres
- The interdependence of a town and its surrounding area to illustrate the hierarchy of settlements and services
- The interdependence of a town and its surrounding area to illustrate the service provision in villages
- the past importance of the siting factors e.g. Ely, Durham and Corfe. Many of these siting factors are insignificant today and settlements may be built almost anywhere if the economic argument is strong enough
- the significance and effects of the attitudes and values of those involved
- The significance and effects of the attitudes and values of those involved. eg migration from North East Brazil to the cities of the South East
- The significance and effects of the attitudes and values of those involved. eg migration into Bangladesh's cities
- the way in which siting factors are interdependent e.g. a village may grow into a market town as a result of increasing trade with surrounding settlement
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