ABSTRACT
This chapter has a dual focus. It examines the tension between settlement and movement that is a key feature of cities. We shall look both at the city as a fluid entity, at the flows of people to the city and the patterns of movement within it, and also at the ways in which people settle into different areas of cities. The chapter is closely linked to the previous one: we shall pursue the questions of movement that were addressed in Chapter 2, but from a different perspective. Our interest here is in people, in the urban inhabitants themselves, rather than in transport networks. But the two are, of course, inseparable, and some of the issues about fear, safety and pollution on city streets that were addressed in the previous chapter will be revisited in this one.
