How do settlement systems evolve? The Virginia backcountry during the eighteenth century

Auteurs :
MITCHELL, R.D.
HOFSTRA, W.R.

Description :
Town-based settlements were first developed in the northern Shenandoah Valley in the Virginia backcountry. Three phases of settlement evolution occurred. A well-developed central-place system was finally evident by the 1790s. Current settlement theories have provided incomplete explanations of the founding of individual towns and of differential town growth.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Journal of historical geography, issn : 0305-7488, 1995, vol. 21, n°. 2, p. 123-147, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 5 fig.

Date :
1995

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London ; New York, NY ; San Francisco, CA, Academic Press