On this webtask we are going to learn the difference between rural and urban settlements and their development, why people settle down on a specific place and this place grows until it becomes a city, the types of city patterns and the services they provide, but also the problems in big cities and how to manage the urban sprawl
1- Find information about URBAN settlement types and hierarchies on this site. Take into account it has four pages. To find the correct information, you'll have to see the four of them. Then answer these questions:
Urbanization can cause a number of problems such as transport congestion, lack of sufficient housing, over-rapid growth and environmental degradation.
Authorities should try to make cities more sustainable. Find out the meaning of sustainable on this site and read the key features of a sustainable city.
Then think of your city and write in which way things have to change to make it more sustainable.
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