Module 1

AS Module 2 Core concepts in Human Geography

11.1 Settlement Processes and Patterns

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Urbanisation and Suburbanisation

Global (G) characteristics of urbanisation - percentage living in urban areas; million cities, change over time.
The causes, patters and effects and characteristics of urbanisation in one major LEDC where the process is still occurring.
Suburbanisation within MEDC?s- causes and consequences in an MEDC.

Counter and re-urbanisation

Definitions of counter and re-urbanisation.
The distinction between counter urbanisation and sub-urbanisation.
Changes over time in rural-urban fringe settlements in the UK: an analysis of the causes and consequences of these changes.
The nature of and causes of changes in the land use patterns of suburbanised villages. The model of a suburbanised village and its application to a case study.
Factors encouraging re urbanisation. The consequences of reurbanisation.
Gentrification as illustrated by a UK case study.
The issues regarding the use of greenfield and brownfield sites for additional housing

Size and Spacing of Settlements

Settlement hierarchy, spheres of influence with reference to the concepts of threshold and range.
Determining the theoretical sphere -Reilly's Law of retail gravitation.
Identifying the actual sphere of influence.

weblinks

web address	description
www.geog.le.ac.uk/cti/urban.html	Computers inteaching Initiative-funbded centrre for Geography, Geology and Meteorology at leicester Univ - urban geog links
www.urbangeography.com/search.html	urban geography
www.s-cool.co.uk	revision notes on AS/A2 geography, including a section on 'urban profiles', summarising urbanisation, urban models, urban problems, urban-rurual interdependence
www.bennett.karoo.net/topics/urban.html	revision notes on AS/A2 geography, including a section on 'urban profiles', summarising urbanisation, urban models, urban problems, urban-rurual interdependence
www.geography.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm	geography specifically good for WEJC AS spec. Also good for AQA OCR and Edexcel. Good links on rural settlements and cities, esp North east
www.nelsonthornes.co.uk/STOIC/secondary/geography/geoactive/ga226c.pdf	the development of a commuter village - geo-active on-line
www.nelsonthornes.co.uk/STOIC/secondary/geography/geofile/gf394.pdf	Geofile online British Urban models: their application to towns and cities today. Impact of cities on their surrounding area
www.un.org/depts/unsd/demog/index.html	UN stats on cities over 100,000 pop
www.uwec.edu/academic/geography/Ivogeler/w111/urban.htm	spatial form and process. Underlying principals of central place theory
www.cost623.leeds.ac.uk/SEM/cpt.htm	spatial form and process. Underlying principals of central place theory
www.uncc.edu/~hscampbe/landuse/a-intro/intro.html	urban growth, urbanisation, counter-urbanisation, urban landuse models, bid rent theory
www.wrl.org/wrl/wr-98-99/citygrow.htm	urban growth, urbanisation, counter-urbanisation, urban landuse models, bid rent theory
www.stthom.edu/political/urblect.htm	urban growth, urbanisation, counter-urbanisation, urban landuse models, bid rent theory
www.verygood.f9.co.uk/gentweb/	King's College research group on gentrification
www.devon.gov.uk/dris/commstat/peter4.html	Peter tavy, a suburbanised village in devon - includes survey
www.macalester.edu/courses/geog61/urban.html	urban problems and planning - Mexico and Rio de Janeiro
www.eaue.de	German site - SURBAN - database on sustainable urban development Europena Academy of the Urban Environment. 72 case studies from 51 European Cities.