The Limits Of Settlement Growth

Author : Roland Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521430852

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The Limits of Settlement Growth by Roland Fletcher Pdf

In this study Roland Fletcher argues that the built environment becomes a constraint on the long-term development of a settlement. It is costly to move settlements, or to demolish and rebuild from scratch, so the initial layout and buildings, and the forms of communication that result, may come to shackle further development and also to place constraints on social and political change. Using this theoretical framework, Dr Fletcher reviews worldwide settlement growth over the past 15,000 years, 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 book is an ambitious contribution to archaeological theory, and the questions it raises also have implications for the future of urban settlement.

Author : Ransford A. Acheampong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030020118

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Spatial Planning in Ghana by Ransford A. Acheampong Pdf

This book documents and analyses spatial planning in Ghana, providing a comprehensive and critical discussion of the evolving institutional and legal arrangements that have shaped and defined Ghana’s spatial planning system for more than seven decades; the contemporary policy instruments and mechanisms for articulating and implementing policies and proposals at multiple scales; and the formally established procedures for development management. It covers important themes in contemporary spatial planning discourse, including the evolving meaning, scope and purpose of spatial planning globally; the scales of spatial planning (i.e. national, regional, sub-regional and local); multi-level integration within spatial planning; public participation; the interface between urbanization, sustainable growth management and spatial planning; spatial planning and housing development; integrated spatial development and transportation planning; and spatial planning and the urban informal economy. Intended for undergraduate and graduate students, and academic researchers and practitioners/policy-makers in the multidisciplinary field of spatial planning, it appeals to readers seeking an international perspective on spatial planning systems and practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Lafayette County (Wis.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086426756

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History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760418132

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The Limits to Growth by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1652 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : NWU:35559001985385

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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports by United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Pdf

Author : John Bodley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317455233

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The Power of Scale: A Global History Approach by John Bodley Pdf

Throughout history, the natural human inclination to accumulate social power has led to growth and scale increases that benefit the few at the expense of the many. John Bodley looks at global history through the lens of power and scale theory, and draws on history, economics, anthropology, and sociology to demonstrate how individuals have been the agents of social change, not social classes. Filled with tables and data to support his argument, this book considers how increases in scale necessarily lead to an increasingly small elite gaining disproportionate power, making democratic control more difficult to achieve and maintain.

Author : Saskia Sassen
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848260474

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Human Settlement Development - Volume IV by Saskia Sassen Pdf

Human Settlement Development is a component of Encyclopedia of Institutional and Infrastructural Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Human Settlement Development deals, in nine parts and four volumes , with a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Urban Sustainability and the Regional City System in the Asia Pacific; Peri-Urbanization: Zones of Rural - Urban Transition; Urban Sustainability: Theoretical Perspectives on Integrating Economic Development and the Environment; Rural Sustainability; Using Foreign Direct Investment to Improve Urban Environmental Infrastructure and Services- The Case of Hanoi, Vietnam; The Long Road Towards Sustainable Cities: The Dutch case; Urban Dimensions of Sustainable Development; Rural Development: Participation and Diversity for Sustainability; The Cities, the State and the Markets: In Search of Sustainability These four volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : David W. Anthony,Jennifer Chi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 0691143889

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The Lost World of Old Europe by David W. Anthony,Jennifer Chi Pdf

In the prehistoric Copper Age, long before cities, writing, or the invention of the wheel, Old Europe was among the most culturally rich regions in the world. Its inhabitants lived in prosperous agricultural towns. The ubiquitous goddess figurines found in their houses and shrines have triggered intense debates about women's roles. The Lost World of Old Europe is the accompanying catalog for an exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. This superb volume features essays by leading archaeologists as well as breathtaking color photographs cataloguing the objects, some illustrated here for the first time. The heart of Old Europe was in the lower Danube valley, in contemporary Bulgaria and Romania. Old European coppersmiths were the most advanced metal artisans in the world. Their intense interest in acquiring copper, Aegean shells, and other rare valuables gave rise to far-reaching trading networks. In their graves, the bodies of Old European chieftains were adorned with pounds of gold and copper ornaments. Their funerals were without parallel in the Near East or Egypt. The exhibition represents the first time these rare objects have appeared in the United States. An unparalleled introduction to Old Europe's cultural, technological, and artistic legacy, The Lost World of Old Europe includes essays by Douglass Bailey, John Chapman, Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici, Ioan Opris and Catalin Bem, Ernst Pernicka, Dragomir Nicolae Popovici, Michel Séfériadès, and Vladimir Slavchev.

Author : Saskia Sassen
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848260467

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Human Settlement Development - Volume III by Saskia Sassen Pdf

Human Settlement Development is a component of Encyclopedia of Institutional and Infrastructural Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Human Settlement Development deals, in nine parts and four volumes , with a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Urban Sustainability and the Regional City System in the Asia Pacific; Peri-Urbanization: Zones of Rural - Urban Transition; Urban Sustainability: Theoretical Perspectives on Integrating Economic Development and the Environment; Rural Sustainability; Using Foreign Direct Investment to Improve Urban Environmental Infrastructure and Services- The Case of Hanoi, Vietnam; The Long Road Towards Sustainable Cities: The Dutch case; Urban Dimensions of Sustainable Development; Rural Development: Participation and Diversity for Sustainability; The Cities, the State and the Markets: In Search of Sustainability These four volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : Nikos Efstratiou,Alexandra Karetsou,Maria Ntinou
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623032807

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Neolithic Settlement of Knossos in Crete by Nikos Efstratiou,Alexandra Karetsou,Maria Ntinou Pdf

The site of Knossos on the Kephala hill in central Crete is of great archaeological and historical importance for both Greece and Europe. Dating to 7000 B.C., it is the home of one of the earliest farming societies in southeastern Europe, and, in the later Bronze Age periods, it developed into a remarkable center of economic and social organization within the island, enjoying extensive relations with the Aegean, the Greek mainland, the Near East, and Egypt. After the systematic excavation of the deep Neolithic occupation levels by J.D. Evans in the late 1950s and later and more limited investigations of the Prepalatial deposits undertaken primarily during restoration work, no thorough exploration of the earliest occupation of the mound had been attempted. This monograph fills the gap, detailing the recent studies of the stratigraphy, architecture, ceramics, sedimentology, economy, and ecology that were a result of the opening of a new excavation trench in 1997. Together, these studies by 13 different contributors to the volume re-evaluate the importance of Neolithic Knossos and place it within the wider geographic context of the early island prehistory of the eastern Mediterranean.

Author : George A. Said-Zammit
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784913922

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The Development of Domestic Space in the Maltese Islands from the Late Middle Ages to the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by George A. Said-Zammit Pdf

This study traces and analyses the evolution of domestic space in Maltese vernacular and ‘polite’ houses from medieval to contemporary times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UCD:31175030122967

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American Journal of Archaeology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Saskia Sassen
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848260450

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Human Settlement Development - Volume II by Saskia Sassen Pdf

Human Settlement Development is a component of Encyclopedia of Institutional and Infrastructural Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Human Settlement Development deals, in nine parts and four volumes , with a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Urban Sustainability and the Regional City System in the Asia Pacific; Peri-Urbanization: Zones of Rural - Urban Transition; Urban Sustainability: Theoretical Perspectives on Integrating Economic Development and the Environment; Rural Sustainability; Using Foreign Direct Investment to Improve Urban Environmental Infrastructure and Services- The Case of Hanoi, Vietnam; The Long Road Towards Sustainable Cities: The Dutch case; Urban Dimensions of Sustainable Development; Rural Development: Participation and Diversity for Sustainability; The Cities, the State and the Markets: In Search of Sustainability These four volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : Johannes Müller,Knut Rassmann,Mykhailo Videiko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317247920

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Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory by Johannes Müller,Knut Rassmann,Mykhailo Videiko Pdf

In European prehistory population agglomerations of more than 10,000 inhabitants per site are a seldom phenomenon. A big surprise to the archaeological community was the discovery of Trypillia mega-sites of more than 250 hectares and with remains of more than 2000 houses by a multidisciplinary approach of Soviet and Ukrainian archaeology, including aerial photography, geophysical prospection and excavations nearly 50 years ago. The extraordinary development took place at the border of the North Pontic Forest Steppe and Steppe zone ca. 4100–3400 BCE. Since then many questions arose which are of main relevance: Why, how and under which environmental conditions did Trypillia mega-sites develop? How long did they last? Were social and/or ecological reasons responsible for this social experiment? Are Trypillia and the similar sized settlement of Uruk two different concepts of social behaviour? Paradigm change in fieldwork and excavation strategies enabled research teams during the last decade to analyse the mega-sites in their spatial and social complexity. High precision geophysics, target excavations and a new design of systematic field strategies deliver empirical data representative for the large sites. Archaeological research contributed immensely to aspects of anthropogenic induced steppe development and subsistence concepts that did not reach the carrying capacities. Probabilistic models based on 14C-dates made the contemporaneity of the mega-site house structures most probable. In consequence, Trypillia mega-sites are an independent European phenomenon that contrasts both concepts of urbanism and social stratification that is seen with similar demographic figures in Mesopotamia. The new Trypillia research can be read as the methodological progress in European archaeology.

Author : Janis Birkeland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136568404

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Design for Sustainability by Janis Birkeland Pdf

With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to move towards a transdiciplinary approach to environmental and social problem-solving. This sourcebook is useful for teaching, as each topic within the field of environmental management and social change has pairs of short readings providing diverse perspectives to compare, contrast and debate. Design for Sustainability presents examples of integrated systems design based on ecological principles and concepts and drawn from the foremost designers in the fields of industrial design, materials, housing design, urban planning and transport, landscape and permaculture, and energy and resource management.