Landscapes of Settlement : Prehistory to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780415119689 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 200 str.

Brian Roberts

Opis

Rural settlements underlie today's cities and still hold over half the world's population. This text excavates the changing forms and functions of these settlements, exploring their origins, development and their future. Settlement is the physical reflection of the social organization of space. Starting with the human dwelling, settlement aggregates into farmsteads, hamlets, villages, towns and cities. Patterns of development can be traced, contours by which a history of a land and its people can be read.

Recenzje

'The author has succeeded resoundingly. This is a welcome synthesis which skilfully links the general to the particular, embraces the conceptual and the empiricial, and deals effectively with every scale from that of the individual building to... global views. - Progress in Human Geography

'Readers can only be impressed by the passion as well as the diligence that has gone into this book.' - Landscape History

Spis treści

Settlement landscapes; Part 1 Nucleation and dispersion; Part 2 Explanatory contexts; Part 3 House and farmstead; Part 4 Settlement forms; Part 5 Settlement patterns; Part 6 Settlement systems: a world view;

O autorze

Brian K. Roberts is Reader in Geography at the University of Durham.