On the basis of forms/shapes of the Settlement, the villages are developed in geometrical forms and shapes such as:

Linear Pattern The houses are located along the road, railway line, river, canal edge of a valley, along a levee.
Rectangular Pattern The settlements are located in plain areas or in wide inter montane valleys. The roads are rectangular and cut each other at right angles.
Circular Pattern The settlements develop around lakes, tanks and the central part remains open for keeping the animals to protect them from wild animals.
Star-like Pattern These settlements develop where several roads converge and the houses are built along the roads.
T-shaped, Y-shaped, Cross-shaped or Cruciform Settlements The T-shape settlements develop at tri-junctions, Y-shaped settlements emerge where two roads converge on the third and houses are built along these roads, cruciform settlements develop on the cross-roads and houses extend in all the four directions.