TYPES OF HUMAN

SETTLEMENTS

ORIGIN OF HUMAN
SETTLEMENTS

IMPORTANCE OF
WHAT IS HUMAN
HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

SETTLEMENT?
 A settlement is
where people
live.
It includes the Cluster of
temporary dwellings of
camps of the any type or
hunters and size where
herders. human beings
live.
HUMAN
SETTLE-
MENT
It is a form of It may consist
human only few
habitation dwelling units
which ranges or maybe as
from a single large as
dowelling to megapolis.
large city.
 HUMAN

PRE- HISTORIC
PERIOD

SETTLEMENT
 RURAL SETTLEMENT
 Most intimately and directly
associated with the land.
 They are controlled by primary
activities such as agriculture, animal
husbandry, fishing etc.
TYPES OF  The establishment’s size is relatively
HUMAN small.

SETTLEMENT

URBAN SETTLEMENT
 An urban settlement is a densely
populated area comprising
mostly man-made structures
that contain all of a society's
administrative, cultural,
residential and religious
functions.
RURAL SETTLEMENT
Most intimately and directly associated with
the land.
They are controlled by primary activities
such as agriculture, animal husbandry,
fishing etc.
The establishment’s size is relatively small.
RURAL SETTLEMENT
URBAN SETTLEMENT
An urban settlement is a densely
populated area comprising mostly
man-made structures that contain all
of a society's administrative, cultural,
residential and religious functions.
URBAN SETTLEMENT
 TYPES OF RURAL SETTLEMENT

SEMI-
DISPERSED
COMPACT COMPACT SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT SETTLEMENT
 COMPACT SETTLEMENT
• A compact settlement is a closely built area of
dwellings, wherever flat land is available In a
scattered settlement dwellings are spaced over an
extensive area. This type of settlement is mostly found
in hilly tracts, thick forests, and regions of extreme
climate.
• These are mostly found in highly productive alluvial
plains like Indo-Gangetic Plains, the Hwang Ho Valley,
Valley o Nile. The houses are compact and congested
with narrow plains.
• Compact settlements are also found in hunting and
fishing communities. Compact settlements are also
found in hunting and fishing communities.
 SEMI-COMPACT SETTLEMENT
• Increase in population cause villages to grow in number of
houses. These houses occupy open spaces and lead to semi-
compact settlement which ultimately acquires a nucleated
settlement.
 DISPERSED SETTLEMENT
• These are generally found in hills, plateaus and grasslands.
These are found in areas where it is essential that the farmer
should live on his own land. Overpopulation is one of the rea-
sons for dispersed settlement.
• If a part of the population left a village to found a new one
they often found dispersed rather than a new village.
Dispersed settlements are relatively recent in age like Steppe
grasslands of Kazakhstan.
 • Rectangular- Such models of
rural settlements are found in
plain regions or wide
intermontane valleys.
• Linear - In such settlements
houses are established along a
road, river, railway line, canal
edge of a valley or along a levee.
PATTERN OF • Circular -Circular villages grow
around lakes, tanks and
RURAL sometimes the village is
organised in such a way that the
SETTLEMENT central part remains accessible
and is used for keeping the
animals to guard them against
wild animal.
• Triangular - generally develop at
the confluence of rivers. The
lateral expansion of houses at
the confluence is constrained by
the rivers.
 PHASE I
PRIMITIVE NON ORGANIZED HUMAN SETTLEMENT

PRIMITIVE MAN
• Tree tops, branches tree holes
and cave
• Paleolithic/ Old Stone Age

NOMAD
• Temporary shelter (isolated
dwelling- hamlet)
• Mesolithic/ Middle Stone Age
 PHASE II
PRIMITIVE ORGANIZED HUMAN SETTLEMENT

FARMERS AND HERDERERS

• Permanent shelter (formation of
Village)
• New Stone Age

CONFLICT BETWEEN MAN- WINNER BECAME THE

KING
• Non Agricultural fortified settlement were built
with moats all around (Formation of town)
• Bronze Age
 PHASE III
STATIC URBAN SETTLEMENT OR CITIES

DUE TO EXCESSIVE MIGRATION

• Development came out of forts to
accommodate more people giving
rise to a bigger settlements
(Formation of larger town or cities
• Iron Age
DYNAPOLIS
• 30 miles in diameter
• 17th Century onwards

METROPOLIS
• 100 sq. km in
diameter

MEGALOPOLIS
• 1000 sq. km in
diameter
 PHASE V
UNIVERSAL HUMAN SETTLEMENT

ECUMENOPOLIS
• Whole Earth will be
covered with one human
settlement (population
will be the decisive factor)
• Upcoming phase
 PRIMATE

CONURBATION OR CITY

CITY
LARGE TOWN
SMALL TOWN
VILLAGE
HAMALET
NUMEROUS ISOLATED BUILDINGS