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Write the characteristics of urban settlements. |
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Answer» Following are the characteristics of urban settlements: 1. Pattern of high population density. 2. Rapid mobility. 3. Pattern of pucca roads and pucca houses. 4. Availability of employment and primacy/plenty of modes of employment. 5. More availability of private and public modes of transport. 6. Availability of pattern of high education and healthcare facilities. 7. More than 50 per cent population engaged in non – primary activities. 8. Availability of the pattern of complex division of labour. 9. Lack of social bonding and presence of individualism. 10.Extreme social and economic differences and presence of class division. |
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