Eight kilometres outside Bugarach, the nearest functioning settlement, Rennes-les-Bains, seemed oddly deserted.
In a way, one can't help thinking that Foxwoods and its counterparts run by other tribes function like settlement taxes that guilt-ridden Americans have imposed on themselves.
This function makes settlement probability decline monotonically with adult density.
Although the practice of intervening in the built environment to shape and guide the appearance and function of settlements has occurred for millennia, the term 'urban design' emerged relatively recently.
A significant amount (49.7 %) of the total expenses has been spent in construction and function of settlements for earthquake homeless, rent supports, technical support of earthquake victims, contacts of post-earthquake surveys, etc. (449.890 Μ€).
An important percentage (49.7 %) of the total cost refers to other actions like construction and function of settlements for earthquake homeless, rent supports, conducting of surveys and autopsies, technical/management support and immediate measures for the financial relief or earthquake victims (449.890 Μ€).
Poreč seemed to be on the brink of Stage 3, "Success," in which "mass tourism replaces what was once the original economic function of the settlement," and "may cause some resentment with people in the town who have not benefited from the new industry or from the loss of distinct identity that the settlement held before".
One need not believe in judicial supremacy to value the courts' ultimate settlement function in litigated constitutional controversies.
In this situation, the bottom-up dynamic of infrastructure formation can be considered a function of the settlement housing dynamic.
But if an interpreter has good reason to believe that this settlement function has been overtaken by other more pressing concerns, perhaps the need to adapt in light of dramatically changed circumstances or much better moral understanding, then a more innovative interpretation may be called for.
