This period seems to have been one of environmental, landscape, settlement and economic change.
The name says it all: for the last three decades (give or take), we have transformed thousands of miles of old rail lines into recreational trails, based on the assumption that long-abandoned railways no longer serve any use as a means of transportation for freight or passenger trains, but they cut clean paths across a variety of landscapes, settlements, and varying topographies.
It is a miserable landscape of settlements, bypass roads, barbed wire and cement walls.
When it reopens, tentatively scheduled for later in 2006, it will contain themed areas devoted to Qatar's landscapes, origins, settlements, seafaring history, nomadic traditions and natural wonders.
His popular fame did not diminish the respect with which he was regarded, especially among those involved in the archaeology and history of landscapes and settlements of the medieval period, his core interests.
New urban growth covered public housing projects, commercial and industrial layouts, tourism and recreational areas that emerged over agricultural landscapes, informal settlements, open spaces, mangrove swamps, etc.
In contrast to conventional archaeological GIS applications this enhanced strategy offers promising prospects regarding landscape and settlement modelling.
The fieldwork program concentrated until 1975 on the excavation of dwelling mounds, and after that on the reconstruction of the landscape and settlement history of large areas.
The study comprises data from two scenic roads in Norway that differ with respect to landscapes formations, settlements, experiences along the routes, and travel distance.
The association of these variables with climate, topography, landscape, human settlement, and geographic position was explored by means of stepwise regression models applied on the axes obtained from principal component analysis.
