Sentence examples for a settlement pattern from inspiring English sources

A settlement pattern of widely dispersed isolated farmsteads resulted from this practice.

Those physical conditions eventually translated into a settlement pattern with more farms and people in and around Montreal than around Quebec city.

By contrast, a settlement pattern which exhibits the use of many different types of gross habitat types and where settlements are located in many different parts of the landscape would be more characteristic of a continuation of an existing pattern of foraging settlement, even if there were slight changes in the settlement pattern.

This kind of activity is accompanied by a settlement pattern that is centrifugal in orientation because of the extensive (as opposed to intensive) nature of pastoralism in Soqotra.

The presence of a settlement pattern with a limited number of large central places with possible ritual installations surrounded by smaller hamlets and homesteads also points to a degree of social complexity and possible specialization.

In particular, the appearance of rice and foxtail millet agriculture on the Chengdu Plain is accompanied by a number of sociopolitical transformations which include a settlement pattern dominated by a limited number of large, central places.

The consequence was a shifting settlement pattern, with a good ax needed not only for felling trees but also for working timber for settlement.

At the same time a new settlement pattern was established, involving a shift away from watercourses and new landscape elements coming into use.

Europe, with a different settlement pattern, geography and transport system, relies on a system of freight delivery that differs from ours.

The first circumstance is one in which a traditional settlement pattern, natural landscape, or cultural legacy is threatened even while a population's contemporary activities are constrained by them.

Because of a decentralized settlement pattern and great geographical distances, local hospitals have played an important role in the provision of specialist health care in Norway.