Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present

by Brian Roberts

Overview

A comprehensive analysis of the history and devel- opment of rural settlement in both the developed and developing worlds. Complete with detailed case studies and fully illustrated, this is essential reading for all geographers and archaeologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134811960
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/21/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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;

Editorial Reviews

Excavates the changing forms and functions of rural settlements, exploring their origins, development and their future. Building around a series of maps and diagrams, Roberts (University of Durham) presents case studies of specific sites in both the developed and developing worlds in order to distill the underlying processes behind rural settlement systems, and then builds on this to analyze settlement patterns on the continental and global scales. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

'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

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