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A settlement hierarchy is a way of arranging settlements into a hierarchy based upon their size. The term is used by landscape historians and in the National Curriculum [ 1 ] for England . The term is also used in the planning system for the UK and for some other countries such as Ireland, India, and Switzerland.
Ekistics is the science of human settlements [1] [2] including regional, city, community planning and dwelling design. Its major incentive was the emergence of increasingly large and complex conurbations, tending even to a worldwide city. [3]
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Medieval churches were bureaucratized, with notions of office, hierarchy and an esprit de corps among its servants. [ 125 ] [ 126 ] [ 127 ] Sverre Bagge has argued that Christianity was a key component in European state formation, as the "Church created permanent institutions which strengthened the power of the king."
Settlements can be ordered by size, centrality or other factors to define a settlement hierarchy. A settlement hierarchy can be used for classifying settlement all over the world, although a settlement called a "town" in one country might be a "village" in other countries; or a "large town" in some countries might be a "city" in others.
The approach utilizes the advantages of the uniformly distributed human settlement patterns and avoids the difficulties caused by the dense network of roads and villages, all over the regions. Unified settlement planning allows holistic regional development without significantly disturbing existing villages, farmland, bodies of water, and forests.
Specialists call these sites regional capitals, considering that they had higher hierarchy and functioned as integration centers, eventually becoming larger regional capitals. [ 6 ] If the great pyramid of Cuicuilco is an expression of this growth, then this level of development was reached between 800 and 600 BC, when it was built.
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