Look around the city, town or village in which you live. Compare it with the
below figures. You will find that the buildings, roads, drains etc. are organised in
some way. This arrangement varies widely across the world as we shall see now.
The way we organise ourselves and our living spaces in a place is called a
settlement – that is, the geographic space where we live and work. In a settlement,
we have different kinds of activities – Educational, Medical, Religious, Commercial
etc.
In this chapter, we will take a brief look at some aspects of human settlement
and the geography related to it