(i) When the houses are constructed along the banks of a pond, tank or a lake, the settlement takes the shape of a circle. People prefer to build houses near the source of water. In this pattern the houses, offices, business centres, are in the centre. As you move out there are garden plots, surrounded by cultivated land, pastures, woodland, in successive rings. (ii) The two areas where this pattern is found in India are : 1. The upper Ganga-Yamuna Doab region. 2. In the parts of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.