A presentation on physical settlements and how they are affected. The different types of physical settlements with pictures.

2. Contents
(Question: Analyze and investigate the
different physical settlements and
how they are affected.)
1. Cities: Analyzation and Investigation
2. Cities: How are they being affected?
3. Villages: Analyzation and Investigation
4. Villages: How are they being affected?
5. Hamlets: Analyzation and Investigation
6. Hamlets: How are they being affected?
7. Towns: Analyzation and Investigation
8. Towns: How are they being affected?
9. Rural Areas: Analyzation and Investigation
10.Rural Areas: How are they being affected?

3. 1. Cities: Analyzation and
Investigation
• A city is a large and permanent physical settlement. Although there is no
agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town in general English
language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal,
or historical status based on local law.
• Cities generally have complex systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage,
housing, and transportation. The concentration of development greatly
facilitates interaction between people and businesses, benefiting both
parties in the process, but it also presents challenges to managing urban
growth.
• A big city or metropolis usually has associated suburbs and exurbs. Such
cities are usually associated with metropolitan areas and urban areas,
creating numerous business commuters traveling to urban centers for
employment. Once a city expands far enough to reach another city, this
region can be deemed a conurbation or megalopolis. In terms of
population, the largest city proper is Shanghai, while the fastest-growing
is Dubai.

4. 1. City: How are they being affected?
They are being affected by:
1) Climate Change: Nearly all of the cities reporting to
CDP consider themselves at risk from climate
change, and 43 percent said they are already dealing
with the immediate effects in their cities. The
implications for buildings, infrastructure, energy
supply, water availability and human health are
significant.
2) Pollution: The pollution in cities is immense due to
lack of nature and release of poisonous gases.
3) Deforestation: There are less green plants, resulting
in less oxygen.

5. 2. Villages: Analyzation and
Investigation
• A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than
a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few
hundred to a few thousand. Though often located in rural areas, the
term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods.
• Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however,
transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly
close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as
a dispersed settlement.
• Although many patterns of village life have existed, the typical village
was small, consisting of perhaps 5 to 30 families. Homes were situated
together for sociability and defence, and land surrounding the living
quarters was farmed. Traditional fishing villages were based on artisan
fishing and located adjacent to fishing grounds.

6. 2. Villages: How are they being
affected?
They are affected by:
1) Lack of good education, medical care and
other important needs.
2) Lack of protection.
3) Natural disasters like floods, earthquakes,
tsunamis.

7. 3. Hamlets: Analyzation and
Investigation
• A hamlet is a type of settlement. The definition of hamlet
varies by country. It usually refers to a small settlement,
with a small population that is usually under 100, in
a rural area, or a component of a larger settlement or
municipality. Hamlets are typically unincorporated
communities.
• The word comes from Anglo-Norman hamelet(t)e,
corresponding to Old French hamelet, the diminutive of
Old French hamel. This, in turn, is a diminutive of Old
French ham, possibly borrowed from Franconian
languages. Compare with
modern French Hameau, Dutch heem, German Heim, Old
English hām and Modern English home.

8. 3. Hamlets: How are they being
affected?
They are affected by:
1) Lack of the facilities that a city has
to offer.
2) A small population.
3) Unincorporated.

9. 4. Towns: Analyzation and
Investigation
• A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a cit
• The word town shares an origin with the German word Stadt,
the Dutch word tuin, and the Old Norse tun. The German
word Zaun comes closest to the original meaning of the word: a fence of
any material. An early borrowing from Celtic *dunom (cf. Old Irish dun,
Welsh din "fortress, fortified place, camp," dinas "city;“
• In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the
space which these fences enclosed. In England, a town was a small city
that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger
fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the
Netherlands, this space was a garden, more specifically those of the
wealthy, which had a high fence or a wall around them (like the garden
of palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, which was the example for the privy
garden of William and Mary at Hampton Court). In Old Norse tun means
a (grassy) place between farmhouses, and is still used in a similar
meaning in modern Norwegian.

10. 4. Towns: How are they being
affected?
They are affected by:
1)Their small size.
2)Slightly cramped living
conditions.
3)Pollution.

11. 5. Rural Areas: Analyzation and
Investigation
• A rural area is a geographic area that is located
outside towns and cities.
• The Health Resources and Services Administration of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
defines the word "rural" as encompassing "...all
population, housing, and territory not included within
an urban area. Whatever is not urban is considered
rural.”
• Typical rural areas have a low population density and
small settlements. Agricultural areas are commonly
rural, though so are others such as forests.

12. 5. Rural Areas: How are they
affected?
They are affected by:
1) Low population.
2) Not enough
facilities.
3) Small settlements.