The document discusses human settlements, defining them as areas inhabited by people, ranging from small hamlets to large metropolitan cities. It classifies settlements into rural and urban categories, highlighting differences in population size, standard of living, and primary vs. secondary/tertiary occupations. Various types of rural settlements are described, including clustered, semi-clustered, dispersed, and hamleted settlements, along with factors influencing their formation and characteristics.

1. Human Settlements
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3. General
1. . A place inhabited more or less permanently.
2. . cluster of dwellings of any type or size where human beings live
3. . They vary in size from hamlet to metropolitan cities, they may be
small and large closed or spaced, they may practice primary /
secondary/ tertiary activities

4. Classification of Settlements
Settlements can be differentiated in terms of rural
and urban

6. RURAL URBAN
1. Primary occupation -agriculture, fishing,
lumbering , mining, animal husbandry, etc.
1. Occupations related to secondary and
tertiary sectors
2. Provide raw material 2. Process the raw material
3. Size of population is less 3. Size of population is high
4. Standard of living is low and low source
of income
4. Standard of living is high and high source
of income
5. Low density of population 5. High density of population
6. Spaced 6. Clustered

7. TYPES OF RURAL SETTLEMENT

8. CLUSTERED
SETTLEMENTS
1. Compact and congested with narrow
plains.
2. size of these settlements depends on
nature and resources of surrounding
country.
3. based on farming.
4. Different shapes such as geometric
rectangular, radial, linear,
5. mostly found in highly productive alluvial
plains like Indo-Gangetic Plains, the Hwang
Ho Valley, Valley of Nile.
6. Availability of water also decides the
shape.

9. SEMI-CLUSTERED
SETTLEMENTS
1. Formed due to result from tendency of
clustered in restricted area of dispersed
settlement
2. Segregation of large settlement may
also cause
3. Some may be forced to live separately
from the main village
4. Dominance group live in the center of
the village
5. People of lower strata live in out skirt of
the village
6. houses occupy open spaces
7. Most common in Gujarat and Rajasthan

10. DISPERSED SETTLEMENTS
1. They are isolated huts OR
hamlets
2. Located on hills or
agricultural lands
3. It is due to nature of
terrain, and land resource ,
water
4. Found in Steppe grasslands
of Kazazistan.

11. Hamlets Settlements
1. Some settlement is
fragmented into several units
and physically separated from
each other is known as
hamleted settlement.
2. Examples of hamleted
settlement can be seen in the
middle and lower Ganga
plain, Chhattisgarh and lower
valleys of the Himalayas.
3. The isolated settlement is
known as dispersed
settlement.