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Examine the morphological factors that influence the origin and growth of town.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Population and Settlement Geography

Urban morphology studies a town's physical form; M.R.G. Conzen (1960) reduced it to three form complexes — town plan, building fabric and land use. Morphological factors are thus the form-determining physical controls on where a town arises and how its fabric extends.

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  • Relief and Elevation: Defence Fixes the Original Plan
  • Water and Drainage: Wet-Point Attraction, Flood-Point Limit
  • Geology, Soil and Building Material
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  • Functional and Resource Base
  • Where Morphological Factors Cease to Decide

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