Human

Settlement
&
Geographical
placement
Settlement Hierarchies
Q: What is Settlement Hierarchies?
A: A settlement hierarchy is a way of arranging
settlements into a hierarchy based upon their
population or some other criteria.
Q: What is Hierarchies?
A: It is a pyramid that use as a term for
compare something.
Why it is important?
-Because it show the development of the resident
area and it also connect to
The social of the resident area
- Economy as the town become increase in size,
the need of resource also increase.
- Service Service in the big city is high quality
than the small one for example, City have many
hospital while the small town have only clinic.
- Settlement increase in size The more
population, the area need to be use.
- It can compare or measure the city types.
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the
meaning
of urban
form
Urban form is
the study of the
physical
characteristics of
towns or cities
resulting from an
evolutionary
process of urban
activities and
Urban form and functions
Urban area is a human
settlement with high
population and
infrastructure of built
environment.
Created through
urbanization and
categorized by urban
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Is the color of milk Is the color of coal,
and fresh snow, the ebony, and of outer
color produced by the space. It is the
combination of all the darkest color, the
colors of the visible result of the absence
spectrum. of or complete
absorption of light.
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Types of Urban
Form
There are 2 types of Urban
Form:

Organic Urban Form =

develops without
centralized planning

Planned Urban Form =

 Situation of
is itssettlement?
location in relation to
surrounding human and
physical features.
What is Site and
situation of
settlement?
is the land upon which
it wa?s built.
Factors that can be
determine the site
Wet point site
of settlement:
Dry point site
Defensive site
Aspect
Shelter
Trading point
resources
Which would
be the best
place for
settlement?
Abandon
ed
Populated
Place
What is human
settlement?

Human
Settlement =
Populated
Place
What is an
abandoned place?

A place that
been left to rot
Populated Place -
Abandoned place
How it can become an
abandoned place

Economy the economy that

supported has failed
Disaster human or natural
caused such as flood
Government actions
Uncontrolled lawlessness
War
Nuclear Disasters
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