Settlement Geography:
- Concept of Settlement Geography;
- Rural settlements – Nature; Origin, Types, and patterns;
- Urban settlements: Origin, Patterns, Processes, and consequences,
- Central place theory;
- Classification of towns;
- Hierarchy of Urban Centres, Morphology of Towns;
- Rural-Urban nexus, Umland, and urban fringes;
- Futuristic trends.
Notes of Settlement Geography:
Concept of Settlement Geography;
- About Human settlement
- Factors affecting the settlement
Rural settlements – Nature; Origin, Types, and patterns;
Urban settlements: Origin, Patterns, Processes, and consequences:
Central place theory;
Classification of towns;
- Functional classification of towns
- Nelson’s method of the functional classification of towns
- Griffith Taylor town classification
Rural-Urban nexus, Umland, and urban fringes;
Futuristic trends.
Question asked in UP PCS 2018:
Discuss the central place theory developed by Christaller.
Examine the factors affecting the evolution and development of settlements.
Question asked in UP PCS in 2017:
Expected Geography Mains Questions for UPPSC-UP PCS 2020:
- Classification of Town
- Umland, Rural-Urban fringe
- Urban Morphology
For Your Practices:
- Analyze the feasibility of ‘Smart Towns or smart cities’ Development in India.
- “Mono-functional towns are economically vulnerable.”Discuss.
- Discuss Nelson’s method of the functional classification of towns.
- Define Umland and discuss, with specific examples,
- Describe the salient characteristics of the morphology of Indian cities.
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