Classify urban settlements on the basis of size function and services available into five categories and mention an important characteristics of each.

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On the basis of size function and services available urban settlements can be classified into five categories as under:

1. Town: The concept of town can be understood with reference to village. Population size is not only criterion. Functional contrasts between town and villages may not always clear cut but specific functions such as manufacturing wholesale trade and services exist in towns.

2. City: A city may be regarded as a loading town. Cities are much larger than towns and have a greater number of economic functions. They land to have transport terminals major financial institution, administrative offices etc.

3. Conurbation: The term conurbation was coined by Patric Geddes in 1915 and applied to a large area of urban development that resulted from the merging of originally separate towns or cities. Greater London, Manchester, Tokyo and Chicago are examples.

4. Megalopolis: The greek word meaning ‘Great City’ was popularised by Jean Gottaman (1957) and signifies super-metropolitan region extending as union of conurbation. The urban landscape stretching from Bostan in the North to South of Washington in USA is the best example of a megalopolis.

5. Million city: The number of million cities in the world have been increasing as never before. London reduced the million mark in 1800, Paris in 1850, Newyork in 1860. The rate of increasing in the number of million cities has been three fold in every three decades around 160 in 1975 to around 438 in 2005.

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