A new approach for the geographical study of settlement morphology for rural settings

Auteur :
COLING, J. F.

Description :
This paper is concerned with an approach for studying rural settlement morphology in frontier or permanently occupied areas. A thorough consideration of periodic rural dwelling distribution is provided with the approach since it requires a disaggregation of the settlement components. The paper considers the rationale for and the procedure of disaggregating the period rural settlement distributions. Rural dwelling accessibility to trade-service centers over a 37-year period is analyzed in southwestern Oklahoma, USA. Nearest neighbor and quadrat analyses are used for describing settlement morphologies that, with time, exhibited clustering tendencies. Dwellings comprising the contemporary settlement occupied sites that indicated rural inhabitants preferred being close to the trade-service centers. If they lived away from these nodes, their homes were adjacent to or nearby major roads.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie Rotterdam, 1984, vol. 75, n°. 4, p. 263-272, Références bibliographiques : 17 réf.

Date :
1984