Geography Grade 12 - Summary: Urban Settlements

Geography Grade 12 - Summary: Urban Settlements Includes: - Urbanisation - Factors influencing the location of urban settlements - Functions of urban settlements - Types of urban settlement according to function - Urban hierarchy - Central place theory - distribution of urban settlements & 4 important concepts & consequence of theory - Low-order & high-order services (and examples) - Sphere of influence, range, threshold population, central place explanations (and diagram) - Land use zones and the urban profile - explained and shown in diagram - Bid-rent curve diagram - Factors influencing the morphological structure of a city - Street patterns (grid, irregular, radial) - Geographical models (Multiple nuclei model, the 'third" world city etc.) - Why urban patterns and land use change - Centripetal & centrifugal forces - diagrams and explanations - Examples of urban renewal (and examples in SA) - Urban issues related to rapid urbanisation - Improving city space - Growth of informal settlements and issues