Year 10: Settlement

Welcome to GCSE Geography. Your first module is called 'Settlement' and will explore trends in settlements and the changes which are occuring.

Here will be posted information useful to your course, homework and revision.

Topics covered so far:

• Where do all the people live? (Population distribution)
  
• How are sites chosen?
• The site and development of Nottingham
• Settlement hierarchy
• Central place theory
  
• Building at the rural-urban fringe (green and brownfield sites)
  
• Counterurbanisation (- the movement of people and jobs from urban areas into rural areas)
• A case study of a suburbanised village