Today's settlement chart

Settlement Trends

Increased Global Migration

More settlement along coasts

Migration to Urban Areas

Urban Sprawl

Push factors

Pull factors

War/ conflict

Drought

Better job oppertunity

Higher wages

family memers

Urbanization

better health care

Schools/ education

Elecrticity

water

Price of Land

Space

Suburbs

Less expensive outside the city

cities are becoming too crowded, so they expand

More private, less noise, cheaper, more space.

provides more space

Cannot expand inland

expansion

reclaiming land

islands being formed