Settlement

Settlement

1. Urbanisation

   • Migration
     • Rural to urban areas
   • Informal sector
     • Jobs without regular hours/pay
   • Slums
     • eas of poor crowded housing
   • Urbanisation
   • Shanty towns
   • immigration

2. Problems

   • No clean water
   • High crime
   • no electricity
   • No waste collection
   • no sewers
   • Lack of food

3. Burgess model

   • CBD= central business district
   • Light manufactoring=Terraced housing
   • Low quality residential
   • Medium quality residential

4. settlement Hierarchy

   • 1. Capital cities
   • 2.Cities
   • 3.Towns
   • 4.Villages
   • 5.Hamlets-isolated homes

5. Out of town shopping

   • CBd dies and becomes disused
     • Internet is used instead
   • People loose jobs and money

6. Donut effect

   • suburbanisation
   • filtering
     • Reurbanisation
       • 9/80 polish children in uk
   • low order goods
     • items with low value that pep. buy loads a week or month e.g milk,apples,bread.

7. HIgh order goods

   • Items of high value that pep. buy infrequently:TV,car.