A Settlement is a locale that has access to supplies, materials, utilities, and services that allow groups larger than immediate family to coordinate. These efforts go to create and maintain it, enlarge it if necessary, allowing efficient communication, resource sharing, resource accumulation & storage. Settlements have social and political structures to manage them. Most Settlements will have a general Settlement Upbringings associated with them.
Settlements are actual places of dwelling. They all have some common properties. Some are related to institutions, some familial or by business.
familial dwelling – duplex, townhome, home, etc.
usually high-rise/vertical – Apartment/Flat/Condo
Larger building housing many people and services.
A collection of buildings and areas geared to supporting a group of people, typically in a unified purpose.
Farmsteading for crops or ranching (all attendant buildings, including workers, animals, vehicles, etc.)
subdivision, purposeful small community settlement, satellite/suburb
Self contained (living and necessary services) settlement or subdivision of a larger locale
A defined section of a town, city or mega-city.