Settlement hierarchies

It is a settlement that is usually a single house or a series of buildings that exist far from others. These types of houses are typically in rural areas maybe connected with a farm or an industry that requires a lot of space.

• Hamlet

• Village

• Isolated Dwelling

• Megacity

A type of settlement with more than 10 million people living there, and Tokyo Japan is one of it.

• Megacity

• City

• Town

• Village

It refers sizes of the settlement arranged in different levels.

• Settlement Types

• Settlement Hierarchy

• Changes in Settlements

• Settlement Patterns

It is a type of settlement which has the largest population having more than 10 Million people living there.

• Hamlet

• Town

• Village

• Megacity

It is a type of settlement referring to large urban areas that sees a merging together of more than one city or with surrounding towns.

• Large Cities

• Conurbations

• Isolated Dwellings

• Villages

This settlement pattern involves a number of buildings or houses not that close to each other but are within the same locality.

• Dispersed

• Isolated

• Nucleated

• Linear

This is a settlement pattern that is usually developed along the road, railways, established routes or waterways.

• Linear

• Dispersed

• Isolated

• Nucleated

This type of settlement pattern has a center point and develop from the middle outwards.

• Dispersed

• Nucleated

• Isolated

• Linear

The name given to the actual land a settlement is built on...

• space
• site
• situation

Which of these is the smallest settlement?

• village
• town
• hamlet