Abstract

Analysis of settlement pattern is useful in making decisions about the locations of new investments and about the potential for clustering services and facilities in new ways to increase the capacity of human settlements to stimulate development in their areas. Settlement patterns in and around metropolitan regions become all the more important when considering the pace with which the urban settlements are increasing, both in number and size. In addition, in developing countries, there is" a new category: increasingly large number of spontaneous human settlements are coming into existence on the urban fringes.

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