Germany after unification : urban settlement systems in the 1990s
Exurban settlement ; Germany ; Settlement ; Settlement system ; Suburbanization ; Urban development ; Urban network ; Urbanization
The urban settlement system in Germany is polycentric : it doesn't exist one sole primate city. As a result of federal policy and seen as advantageous in European-wide competition the spatial planning pursues a concept of decentralised concentration
. The settlement development between West and East shows significant differences. In West Germeny the process of urbanisation is concentrated on rural areas and hinterland regions instead of central cities. In the new Länder all categories of settlement-structural
, where new large-scale facilities are built up, fraught with loss of importance in cities are characteristic for the urban settlement system in the new Länder. - (HPB)
Development of settlements and regions. Theme issue
Agglomeration ; Central places ; Dynamic model ; Self-organizing behaviour ; Settlement ; Settlement system ; Theory ; Urban growth ; Urban system ; Urbanization
Impacts and timing of the first human settlement on vegetation of the Faroe Islands
C 14 dating ; Charcoal ; Climatic variation ; Faeroe Islands ; Geo-ecology ; Geochronology ; Human impact ; Palynology ; Pollen diagram ; Quaternary ; Settlement history
Stratigraphically precise AMS-radiocarbon-dated plant remains, pollen, charcoal, and microtephra analyses from the Faroe Islands were used to establish the timing and effects of the first human settlement. The first occurrence of cultivated crops
from 3 locations dated from as early as the sixth century A.D. and was older than implied from previous archaeological and historical studies, but consistent with earlier palaeoecological investigations. The effects of settlement on the vegetation were
Morphological changes of estuarine channels and tidal flats depend on erosion, sediment transport and deposition. This thesis focuses on a smaller part of this system : the settling of mud flocs in an estuary. The research is based on measurements
of the size and settling velocity of mud flocs in the Dollard estuary on different time and spatial scales. It is concluded that turbulent shear and residence times play an essential role in flocculation dynamics. Furthermore it is showed that biological
that the landscape was forested. These results suggest that the northeastern Congo Basin was forested when it was settled by humans in the late Pleistocene and that the region remained settled while its forest changed in structure and composition thereafter.
Coastal environment ; Large city ; Mediterranean States ; Population growth ; Regional disparities ; Settlement system ; Urban agglomeration ; Urban population ; Urbanization