How settlements grow and change
Cities do not sprawl randomly. Land value, transport and planning decisions leave a readable pattern.
Part of your national curriculum
- Place knowledge: Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region in Africa and a region in Asia
- Human and physical geography: Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Describe how settlements grow and change
Key learning points
- • Urban zones
- • Change over time
This lesson at a glance
- 25 minutes
- 12 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
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Visual introductionPicture this
How settlements grow and change
Cities do not sprawl randomly. Land value, transport and planning decisions leave a readable pattern.
In a nutshell
Describe how settlements grow and change
Explore the idea
Part 2 of 12
Learn
Urban zones
A central business district of high-value land, older inner-city terraces, interwar suburbs, then modern estates and out-of-town retail.
Explore the idea
Part 3 of 12
Learn
Change over time
Deindustrialisation empties old sites; regeneration converts them. Gentrification raises values and can displace existing residents.
Reset break
Part 4 of 12
Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Quick check
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Quick check
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Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Challenge round
Part 9 of 12
Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
Part 10 of 12
Game · Recall cards
Land values are usually highest…
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Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: How settlements grow and change
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. Land values are usually highest…
2. Gentrification often causes…
3. Out-of-town retail parks grew because of…
4. What three dimensions are combined in the Human Development Index?
Lesson round-up
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Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region in Africa and a region in Asia
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Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration