Shape And Form -

| Nucleated | Tightly cluster around a central feature | - Social benefits

• Central - More services
• Defense
• Trade | | --- | --- | --- | | Dispersed | Isolated houses, not concentrated | - Agricultural land is bad hence more farm areas and dispersed houses to keep close to farm
• Cultural reasons | | Linear | There is a physical feature [Road, River] → Houses follow along in a line | - Access to transport
• Possible water supply
• Around the floodplain [not take up farming land] |

Site And Situation -

Site - Physical Land that the settlement is built on

1. Flat land
2. Fertile soil
3. Floodplain
4. Accessibility to transportation networks

Situation - Position of settlement in relation to other features

1. Trade routes
2. Location relative to other places

Growth and Site Of Settlements -

Factors -

1. Climate - Extremes → Not much growth
2. Raw materials - More investments
3. Fertile land - More crops sold etc.
4. central with access to trade