Agriculture ; Cultural studies ; Environment ; Immigration ; Landscape ; Regional economy ; Regional geography ; Settlement ; United States of America ; Wisconsin
Twenty-seven different authors bring their knowledge of Wisconsin geography to bear in a wide range of essays organized into three parts: natural environments and wild landscapes; settlement processes and cultural patterns; and regional economies
The impact of industrial decentralization on settlement patterns can be traced by using published data in city directories regarding the evolution of labor sheds and employment fields. A case study of Toronto, using directories and oral histories
, shows that the decentralization of employment was only one influence upon suburban settlement. Men were affected more than women, because of the concentration of housing and job opportunities for women in the downtown. Decentralization enabled companies
Exurban settlement ; Internal migration ; Migratory flow ; Population redistribution ; Settlement system ; Suburbanization ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urbanization
Archaeology ; Christianity ; Germany ; Hessen ; Historical geography ; Middle Age ; Rural history ; Rural settlement ; Settlement history ; Social history
Europe ; Finland ; Northern Europe ; Norway ; Regional policy ; Rural area ; Rural settlement ; Rural-urban relations ; Settlement ; Sweden ; Underpopulated region
Agriculture ; Antiquity ; Architecture ; Cultural studies ; Desert ; Historical geography ; Israel ; Negev ; Religious practice ; Sedentarization ; Settlement
In this desert, a large-scale settlement system developed and flourished in late antiquity. It became sedentary and agriculturally based and reached its climax during the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries under the Byzantine Empire. Major geographical
land settlement, how in the 20th century it performed both a social welfare and economic management function, and how soil conservation was interpreted in terms of national identity.
Agglomeration ; City size ; Dynamic model ; Self-organizing behaviour ; Settlement ; Settlement system ; System ; Theory ; Town ; Urban hierarchy ; Urban model ; Urban system
The manifold influences of tourism on coastal areas are analysed from three different angles : the development of seaside tourism including the changes of socio-economic and settlement patterns; its cultural impact on the local population; its