The limits of settlement growth :
Fletcher, Roland
The limits of settlement growth : a theoretical outline / Roland Fletcher - Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995. - xxiii, 276 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm. - New studies in archaeology .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-271) and index.
"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.
978-0-521-03810-2 978-0-521-43085-2
94018290
Arqueología social
Asentamientos humanos--Historia
Ciudades y pueblos--Historia
930.1 / F633l
The limits of settlement growth : a theoretical outline / Roland Fletcher - Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995. - xxiii, 276 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm. - New studies in archaeology .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-271) and index.
"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.
978-0-521-03810-2 978-0-521-43085-2
94018290
Arqueología social
Asentamientos humanos--Historia
Ciudades y pueblos--Historia
930.1 / F633l
