Settlement is all about where we live. We start by looking at why people in the past lived where they did, before moving on to look at the patterns of our modern settlements, how cities develop and change, and at the future of sustainable cities.
This unit links to Changing Urban Environments at GCSE.
In this lesson we learn about the things a settlement needs to be sucessful such as flat land and a food source. These are called site and situational factors.
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In this lesson you will learn why some places have lots of people living there and some places have very few people living there.
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In this lesson we will learn about the different shapes of settlements called patterns, and how these are dictated by physical and human geography. We will also learn about how the size of settlements is linked to the number of services it has; this is called hierarchy.
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In this lesson you will learn about the different models (simplified pictures) of cities, that show us the pattern of land use (type of buildings) in cities.
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In this lesson we will learn how an old industrial area of London, the Greenwich Peninsula , has been redeveloped and the impacts of that redevelopment.
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In this lesson we are learning about how cities have been made sustainable to reduce their environmental impact.
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In this lesson we are learning about Las Vegas, a city in the USA, whose water use is unsustainable. Residents here are being encouraged to save water.
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