Sentence examples for haphazard settlement from inspiring English sources
These essays, written after a 1905 trip, though they deal with topics like the hydrology, climate, and haphazard settlement of the Amazon, and the impossible lives of the rubber-tappers, contain passages that read like the letters of a brilliant friend.
Not all interchange between poleis, or all emigration from the polis into nonpolis areas of settlement, however, was of the haphazard kind caused by mercenary service or the peripatetic life-style of artists and craftsmen.
Farming was thought to be a much more haphazard affair, because at other Neolithic sites, vestiges of original, systematic plans of settlement have been destroyed or rearranged -- for example, the stone walls dismantled and used for new walls.
The fast-densifying greater downtown area has good Walk Scores and could legitimately be called "urban"; a half-dozen similar job centers--from random edge cities to tasteful towncenters--dot the metro; makeshift settlement communities pop up to house incoming immigrants; and, of course, haphazard single-family and multi-family housing sprawls in every direction.
The Old Town grew up in a haphazard fashion in the early years and includes more than 20 pit settlements, whereas the New Town, to the south, begun in 1934 and designed as the cultural and administrative centre, has wide streets, parks, and such monumental buildings as the Miners' Palace of Culture.
Although he currently lives at La Reve, should he and his new wife move to Cairo, they will doubtless end up in one of the city's informal settlements known as ashwai'yat, an Arabic word that means random or haphazard.
"It was totally haphazard".
His treatment was haphazard.
Service: Amiable if haphazard.
