This is a study of the settlement pattern of part of Apulia where the population is concentrated in large rural towns. As the topography is very gentle, other factors determining the location of settlement have been suggested in the past
Settlement frontiers revisited : the case of Israel and the West Bank
Boundary;Frontier ; Israel ; National territory ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; Settlement ; Social change ; Spatial dynamics ; West Bank ; Zionism
The Israeli pre-state frontier is analyzed in terms of five major frontier elements : land (price, location, use); sociospatial dynamics (pre-settlement, expansion, movement); institutions (settlers, nation); social relations and the polity
. The West Bank settlement enterprise is assessed, to represent a changing form of expansion coupled with varying contributions to social change.
Farmsteads in Hungary function as independant settlement units can be characterised by their segregation from towns and villages. They can be defined as agricultural or settlement units, a natural system, or perhaps as an individual way of life
Settling velocity characteristics of sediment detached from a soil surface by raindrop impact
The aim of the study was to ascertain whether the detachment of sediment from a soil surface by raindrop impact is a selective or aselective process. Relationships between particle size and settling velocity were established.
Army ; Czech Republic ; Military base ; Mountain ; Population ; Settlement ; Settlement system
The specific features and significance of geographic location of the large Czech military training area. The development of settlement system of the Doupov mountains region into a military training site in 1953, and the possibilities of the future
The early colonies, established between 1882 and 1914, were already nucleated. The main type of settlement was the moshava. This family-farm village was strongly nucleated, and all the types created after it reveal the impact of its nucleted spatial
Hungary ; Population density ; Settlement ; Small town ; Town ; Urban function ; Urban morphology ; Urban population ; Urban settlement ; Working population
This research describes the settlement morphology of Mezöhegyes, a small town that is unique in that the original pattern was aimed to serve economic purposes and planned accordingly by civil engineers. The original manors have decreased in number
, the population in the outskirts has been decreased and aged and the central part of the settlement has increased. - (JS)
California ; Ethnic group ; International migration ; Religion ; Sect ; Settlement ; United States of America
Odyssey of a pacifist Russian sect which settled first in the Transcaucasus in 1839, and then migrated to California beginning in 1911. Except for church activities, these Molokites have now assimilated into American life. - (DWG)
Architecture ; Borsod-Abauj-Zemplén ; Cultural studies ; Daily life ; Historical geography ; Hungary ; Settlement system ; Town
Tokay-Hegyalja is one of the most important historical wine-growing areas of Hungary, a region with a special cultural feature which is constituted historically not only in the structure of settlements, but also in architecture, work, culture
and everyday-life. This study serves with additional information to the development of settlement system and society in this region between the 16th and 19th centuries. - (JS)
Place narratives and the origins of inner Sydney's Aboriginal settlement, 1972-73
This paper charts the story of the founding of the Aboriginal settlement in Sydney's Redfern in 1972-73. The A. shows how the utopian concept of a Black cooperative became pitted against the defensive concept of a Black ghetto in a struggle
Cultural geography ; Czech Republic ; Ethnic community ; Military base ; Mountain ; Regional development ; Settlement ; Settlement history
An introduction to the monothematic issue of Sborník ČGS dedicated to the problems of the military area of Hradiště in the Doupov mountains. The history of the region from the old Slavic settlement, through its almost complete germanization
Biogeography ; Colonization ; Hedge ; New Zealand ; Plain ; Rural landscape ; Settlement ; South Island ; Tree
This network of living fences and windbreaks was initiated in the 1850 s when the area was settled as an experiment in English colonization. The colonists juxtaposed images of an antipodean utopia with the reality of a droughty and windy plains
Trends in the urbanization of Arab settlements in Galilee
Arabs ; Conflict ; Development strategy ; Enterprise;Firm ; Ethnic group ; Galilee ; Israel ; Peripheral region ; Regional development ; Settlement ; Specialization ; Urban function ; Urbanization of the countryside ; Village
The length of the road network had an effect on the intensity of demographic emptying of the rural areas (settlements) in Croatia; a longer network of roads to a certain extent means less populational degression, while a shorter network means
greater population degression. Analysis results indicate that a firm connection exists between traffic accessibility of rural settlements and their demographic characteristics.