Population Patterns: What Factors Determine the Location and Growth of Human Settlements? (Investigating Human Migration & Settlement) (Investigating ... Human Migration and Settlement) - Hardcover

Hyde, Natalie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0778751821 ISBN 13: 9780778751823

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Co,US, 2010

Synopsis

Why do people migrate to and settle in the places they do? Fascinating examples in history help explain how the earliest human settlements were situated close to fertile ground and rivers for farming and raising livestock. Other determining factors have included areas that offered defensive advantages, resources such as metals, salt, and fossil fuels, and locations on trading routes. In modern times proximity to commercial centers and transportation links, such as railways, canals, and airports, have become more important. Examples featured include settling the Nile in ancient Egypt; the shaping of Central America by trade and colonization; the Industrial Revolution in Britain; the opening up of the American West; the Gold Rush; and the colonization of Australia. The concepts of urbanization - the settlement and growth of cities - and suburbanization, the return to the countryside and the growth of commuter towns, are both examined.

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About the Author

Natalie Hyde was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and grew up in Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario, where she still lives. She spent most of her childhood collecting crickets, toads and tent caterpillars. The rest of the time she practiced being a genie. When that didn't work out, she studied languages at the University of Waterloo. Natalie lives with her husband and four children in a house with too many stairs, which they share with a little leopard gecko and a cat that desperately wants to eat him. I Owe You One is Natalie's first book for Orca. To learn more about Natalie, please visit www.natalaliehyde.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Co,US
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0778751821
• ISBN 13: 9780778751823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48