The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline

ISBN-13: 9780521038102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str.

Roland Fletcher

Opis

In this study Roland Fletcher argues that the built environment becomes a constraint on long-term settlement development. He reviews worldwide settlement growth over the past 15,000 years in the light of the limits imposed by buildings, layouts and forms of communication, and concludes with a major discussion of the great transformations of human settlements--from mobile to sedentary, sedentary to urban, and urban to industrial. This ambitious contribution to archaeological theory has implications for the future of urban settlement.