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Landscapes of Settlement

In spite of the contemporary dominance of urban-based lifestyles, over half the world’s

population remains rural, a proportion that rises to two-thirds in the less developed

regions of the globe. Even today’s most highly urbanised societies grew from rural

roots—settlements that are centuries old forming the framework for modern life.

Landscapes of Settlement discusses the role and importance of rural settlements,

emphasising their historical impact on present-day society as well as their contemporary

role in the developed and developing world. Analysing the language of settlement and

questions of definition, the book looks at a series of contexts within which settlements

can be explored and explained. Beginning with the basic ingredient of all settlement—

the human dwelling—the author traces the aggregation into farmsteads, hamlets and

villages and the ways these associate, together with towns, to form definite patterns of

settlement.

With copious global case studies, maps and models, Landscapes of Settlement presents

and defines the principal processes at work within rural settlement systems, emphasising

the role of time as the matrix within which these processes operate at varying levels of

intensity throughout the world.

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

If you choose to believe me, good. Now I will tell how Octavia, the spiderweb city, is made.

There is a precipice between two steep mountains: the city is over the void, bound to the two

crests with ropes and chains and catwalks. You walk on the little wooden ties, careful not to

set your foot in the open spaces, or you cling to the hempen strands. Below there is nothing

for hundreds and hundreds of feet: a few clouds glide past; farther down you can glimpse the

chasm’s bed.

This is the foundation of the city: a net which serves as passage and as support. All the rest,

instead of rising up, is hung below: rope-ladders, hammocks, houses made like sacks, clothes-

hangers, terraces like gondolas, skins of water, gas jets, spits, baskets on strings, dumb-waiters,

showers, trapezes and rings for children’s games, cable-cars, chandeliers, pots with trailing

plants.

Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia’s inhabitants is less uncertain than in other cities.

They know the net will last only so long.

Landscapes of

Settlement

Prehistory to the present

Brian K.Roberts

London and New York

And the days are not full enough

And the nights are not full enough

And life slips by like a field mouse

Not shaking the grass

(Ezra Pound)

First published 1996

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

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ISBN 0-203-43072-7 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-73896-9 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-11967-7 (Print Edition)

0-415-11968-5 (pbk)

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