Settlement

Settlement

1. Retail Services

2. Urban Land Use

3. Urban Development

4. Urbanisation

   • The growth in the proportion of a country's population living in urban areas.
   • More than 50% of the worlds population live in urban areas
   • MEDC's
     • Most of the population in MEDC's live in Urban area's
       • More than 80% of the population in the UK live in urban areas
     • Young people move to cities where they start familes
       • There is better health care in the ciities so people live longer
   • LEDC's
     • Not many of LEDC population live in urban areas.
       • e.g 25% of Bangladesh live in urban areas
     • Most of the urbanisation happening today is going on in LEDC's
   • Rural-urban migration is the movement of people from the coutryside to the cities.
   • Factors
     • Pull
       • More jobs and higher wages
       • Better services
         • Heath care, electricity and water
     • Push
       • Fewer jobs and lower wages
       • Lack of services
         • No access to shops, schools and healthcare
       • Poor Harvest

5. Counter urbanisation

   • is the movement of people out of cities and into rural areas
   • Factors
     • Push
       • Pollution and traffic congestion are higher in cities
       • Crime rates are often higher
       • House prices in cities are higher
     • Pull
       • Lower House prices
       • Transport links into the city