human settlement
Where people live
A human settlement is any place where people have established residence, from a single homestead to a sprawling metropolis.
The term appears most often in academic, planning, and policy contexts: patterns of human settlement along rivers, the history of human settlement in the Americas.
It encompasses villages, towns, cities, and camps—anywhere humans have chosen to live.
- environmental planningOrganizing land and resource use
- urban renewalRevitalizing decayed city areas
- villageSmall rural community
- metropolisLarge important city
- townMid-sized settlement
urbanization · indigenous history · localities · fishing communities · community · tent city · ancient ruins · colonization · historical landmarks · archaeological sites · city · urban sprawl · planned community · population center · habitation · dwellings · hamlet · frontier town
human settlementwilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
wasteland · no-man's-land · virgin territory · ghost town · hinterland
human settlementnomadic lifestyle
Dwelling pattern without permanence
nomadism · wandering · itinerancy · roving · bivouac
human settlementwilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
untouched nature · undeveloped land · natural habitat · primeval forest · backcountry
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