Types of planned settlements: grouped or clustered village, circular or ring village, the radial or ray village, the linear or row village, the street village, the layent of siberian settlements. The orientation of dwellings to the cardinal points
Socialne ekonomicka povaha venkovskych sidel CSSR. (Socio-economic character of the rural settlement in Czechoslovakia)
Socio-economic classification of rural settlements| commuting to work of the rural population and proposals of some more refined methods to the classification of the rural settlements in Czechoslovakia.
Nederzettingen in Nederland. (Settlements in the Netherlands)
An overview of the development of the settlements in the Netherlands. Special attention has been paid to questions of centrality, demographic urbanisation and the problem of the rural settlements in relation with the process of suburbanisation. (AGD).
How do settlement systems evolve? The Virginia backcountry during the eighteenth century
Central places ; Centrality ; Concept ; Eighteenth Century ; Historical geography ; Regional economy ; Settlement ; Settlement system ; United States of America ; Urban system ; Virginia
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
Inhabitants and settlements in Zeeland: to a new diversity
Counterurbanization ; Netherlands (The) ; Population geography ; Regionalization ; Rural area ; Settlement ; Settlement system ; Zeeland
The central theme of this thesis is the recent development of settlements in a Dutch rural area and the function of settlements for the inhabitants in such areas. The main hypothesis of the study is that because of the processes of regionalisation
and counterurbanisation the residential function fo settlements is nowadays the most important one and regionalisation and counterurbanisation are the background for developing diversity of settlements. - (AGD)