Settlement geography

Referring to Stone (1960), settlement geography is the description and analysis of the distribution of buildings by which people attach themselves to the land.

Further, that the geography of settling designate the action of erecting buildings in order to occupy an area temporarily or permanently.

Buildings are simply one representation of the process of people living in an area they are a mappable division of the landscape to which attention needs direction.

[10] More recently, however, the study of settlement has evolved into the interaction of humans with the physical and ecological world.

This more holistic study is concerned with sustainability and seeks to better understand the present landscape and plan the future.