Classification of human settlement

Classification of human
settlement
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A human settlement is an organized grouping of human habitation.
Human settlement classified in to rural and urban area
 The major difference between rural and urban areas is the function.
Rural areas have predominantly primary activities, whereas urban
areas have domination of secondary and tertiary activities.
 Generally the rural areas have low density of population than urban.
Types of rural settlement
 1. Compact/clustered/nucleated settlement
 2. Semi-compact/Semi-clustered/fragmented settlement
 3. Hemleted settlement
 4. Dispersed settlement.
In the rural areas the smallest area of habitation, viz., the village
generally follows the limits of a revenue village that is recognised by
the normal district administration.
Introduction
640867 R. Village
in India (census 2011)

The urban area comprises two types of towns viz; Statutory towns and
Census towns.
 (a) Statutory Towns : All places with a municipality, corporation,
cantonment board or notified town area committee, etc. are known
as statutory towns.
 (b) Census towns: All other places satisfying the following three
criteria simultaneously are treated as Census Towns.
 i) A minimum population of 5,000;
 ii) At least 75 per cent of male working population engaged in
non-agricultural pursuits; and
 iii) A density of population of at least 400 per sq. km. (1,000 per
sq. mile)
Urban Areas : Types
4041 S. Town
3894 C.Town

Out Growths(OG)
 It is a viable unit such as a village or a hamlet or an enumeration
block and clearly identifiable in terms of its boundaries and location.
 While determining the outgrowth of a town, it has been ensured that
it possesses the urban features in terms of infrastructure and
amenities and physically contiguous with the core town of the UA.
 Outgrowths included “fairly large well recognized railway colonies,
university campuses, port areas, military establishments etc., which
might have come up around a core city or a statutory town”.
Urban Areas : Types
981 Out Growth

Urban Agglomeration(UA)
 An urban agglomeration is a continuous urban spread constituting a
town and its adjoining outgrowths (OGs), or two or more physically
contiguous towns together with or without outgrowths of such towns.
Identification of Urban Agglomerations for 2011 Census
 The core town or at least one of the constituent towns of an urban
agglomeration should necessarily be a statutory town; and
 The total population of an Urban Agglomeration (i.e. all the
constituents put together) should not be less than 20,000 as per the
2001 Census.
Urban Areas : Types
475 UA

City
 Towns with population of 100,000 and above are called cities.
Mega city
 The concept of ‘Mega city’ is a recent phenomenon in the Urban
Sociology and is defined in term of metropolitan city in the form of
large size, problem of management of civic amenities and capacity
to absorb the relatively high growth of population.
 Cities with 10 millions and above population have been treated as
Mega cities.
Urban Areas : Types
468 city
53 mega city

Metropolis / Metropolitan area
Definition by Hans Blumenfeld : concentration of at least 5 lakh people
living within area in which travelling time from to the outskirts to the
places of work is no more then 40-45 min commuting distance
Metropolitan area = Builtup urban area + economic connected territory to
the outside
Conurbation
Coined by Patrick Geddes : Implies the formation by fusion of several
pre-existing cities and town that are gradually growing independently
into a relatively contiguous area largely urbanized .
Urban Areas : Types

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