Settlement pattern is a region is affect in India by

• Social infrastructure

• Physical Linkages

• Population growth rate

• Agricultural Practices

Hoyt propounded

• Sector model of city structure

• Rank-size rule

• Concept of Primate city

• Multi-nuclei model of city structure

The tone of the passage can be best be described as

• analytical and scientific

• factual but descriptive

• behavourial

• tentative and inconclusive

The author is primarily concerned with

• criticizing the urbanisation process

• The process of urbanization and over-urbanization in the developing countries.

• factors of sub-urbanization in the developing countries.

• urban infrastructural growth in Asia.

"Urban Involution" in the developing countries is not characterized by

• rural population level is higher than that in developing countries.

• a uniform process of rural-urban change

• over-concentration of economic , political and cultural functions in primate cities.

• inflow of population beyond a level the city can productively absorb.

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ASSERTION (A) : Social landscape is a region in which one or several groups live and share a common set of ideas about their immediate environment.

REASON (R) : It is a region where human needs , identity , security and stimulation are satisfied.

• Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

• Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

• (a) is correct , but (R) is false.

• (A) is false , but (R) is correct.

A city region is marked with

• Under development

• Backwardness

• Availability of mineral resources

• Concentrated development

City-size distribution is best depicted by

• Urban hierarchy

• Central place theory

• Rank-size rule

• Losch's Hexagonal Model

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