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An example of a dispersed settlement given by W G Hoskins is Middle Barton in Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire. [3] In some parts of England, the pattern of dispersed settlement has remained unchanged for many hundreds of years. Many of the locations found in Domesday may be dispersed farmsteads. [4]
In the case of settlements built along a route, the route predated the settlement, and then the settlement grew along the transport route. Often, it is only a single street with houses on either side of the road. Mileham, Norfolk, England is an example of this pattern. Later development may add side turnings and districts away from the original ...
linear settlement; polyfocal settlement: two (or more) adjacent nucleated villages that have expanded and merged to form a cohesive overall community; A sub-category of clustered settlement is a planned village or community, deliberately established by landowners or the stated and enforced planning policy of local authorities and central ...
In 1985, it was estimated that 25 percent of Emberá people in Panamá still lived according to the traditional dispersed settlement pattern. [11] However, life in settled communities is now considered the norm, or "typical" of most Emberá. [13] In addition to these settled communities, many Emberá now also live in urban areas.
The Locorotondo countryside is an example of an area of dispersed settlements (jazzelere) and has an abundance of trulli dwellings which were built around a communal area called "jazzile". This settlement pattern is due in large part to emphyteutic leases, particularly in the 19th century for the development of vineyards. [6]
The structure of the Nacotchtank occupation outside of the principal village followed a particular pattern of settlement called dispersed settlement. [42] In this pattern, there would be rather-isolated dwellings with large open fields in between them. [ 42 ]
Some settlement sites may go out of use. This location in Estonia was used for human settlement in 2nd half of first millennium and it is considered an archaeological record, that may provide information on how people lived back then. Landscape history studies the form (morphology) of settlements – for example whether they are dispersed or ...
The following settlement hierarchy is adapted from the work of Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis for the actual current world situation as of 2010, as opposed to Doxiadis' idealized settlement hierarchy for the year 2100 that he outlined in his 1968 book Ekistics. As an example population criteria for each category of settlement might be ...