Squatter settlements:
A. experiencing overcrowding often transform peripheral into vast zones of disease and squalor subject to constant danger from landslides, fire, and flooding.
B. reflect an inverse concentric zone pattern in which the elite and upper class reside in central areas and social status declines with increasing distance from the center, for the most part.
C. often emerge on peripheral land that is undeveloped or on land that is too steep or flood-prone for conventional development.
D. all of these.
E. only A and C
Answer: D
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