URBANISATION

BY: Sean Gillmore

Urbanisation
Here are the questions that might guide you to make PPT.
1. What are settlements like?
2. How were the sites for early settlements chosen?
3. What the different settlement pattern are there?
What
■ In law, a settlement is a
resolution between disputing
parties about a legal case,
Are reached either before or after
court action begins. The term
"settlement" also has other
Settlements meanings in the context of law.
Structured settlements provide
Like? for future periodic payments,
instead of a one time cash
payment.
How were
■ Early immigrants in the county found homes
near the place now known as COLUMBIA very
early in the Nineteenth Century. The banks of

the sites
Pearl River furnished a convenient landing place
there, the soil appeared fertile and the drainage
was good, all of which made the place attractive
for a settlement. One of the first settlers there

for early was John Lott, who made a donation of land for
a seat of justice when the county was first
organized. In honor of Mr. Lott the place was

settlement first called Lott's Bluff, but when the county was
created and hrefs were chosen for it and the
county site hrefs were selected in memory of a

s chosen? district and town back in South Carolina. Thus

Lott's Bluff became New Columbia and the
county seat of Marion County. By the common
practice of dropping the adjective, new, from the
href, the town became known as Columbia.
What ■ There are five main settlement
patterns: compact settlement,
scattered settlement, ordered
The different settlement, linear settlement and
nodal settlement. A settlement
settlement pattern is the way a population
disperses over a particular area.
pattern are Settlement patterns are defined
by size, shape and population
there? size. Topography and climate
are the two major influences on
settlement patterns.