UNIT G1 CITIES

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I HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

A human settlement is a community iving in a territory

Types: rural and urban

clasification: cize and economic activity

RURAL SETTLEMENT

1.CHARACTERISTICS

physical environment

wáter supply

relief

soils (fertility)

2.Types

dispersed

concentred

URBAN SETTLEMENT

high population and population densiries

secondary and tertiary sector

concentration and taller buildings

II ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES

First cities: Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China

Reasons: strategic, military, economic, political and/or religious

Until the industrial revolutionnot more tan 10% lived in cities not exceding 5,000 or 10,000 inhavitants