Sentence examples for settlement models from inspiring English sources

Settlement models and geographical site analysis contribute to the understanding of the ecological functioning of the landscape.

Even more so when faced with the growing variety of current settlement models (informal city, urban sprawl, urban archipelago, megalopolis, megacity (Shane 2011).

In this paper we try to reconstruct settlement models for the late Pleistocene and Holocene occupation in this area and speculate about potential land use patterns.

The results of a 3-dimensional polyurethane ballasted track reinforcement technique called XiTRACK, at an equivalent axle load of 44.4 tonnes, are then directly compared to the unreinforced settlement profile using developed settlement models from the tests.

The previously published site of Karabi Tamchin is used here as a spring-point for a discussion of the problems inherent with established site typologies and some of the settlement models that have been proposed in the past.

This paper analyses two cases of traditional settlements in Greece, on the island of Paros (Cyclades) and on the Lassithi plain (Crete), which are exemplary for two distinct settlement models, respectively the island and the basin model.

The relationship between visibility and land use varies however with the viewing distance and settlement model.

In contrast to conventional archaeological GIS applications this enhanced strategy offers promising prospects regarding landscape and settlement modelling.

Ruan et al. (2014) employed a modified thermal settlement model to perform a risk zonation of thermal settlement hazard and found that high-risk areas by 2050 are the Chumarhe high plain, Wudaoliang, and Kaixinling areas.

The area of San Diego city close to the border with Mexico presents numerous informal settlements that are growing at a much faster rate than that in progress in the central areas of the city and based on the informal settlement model of Tijuana.

New geochemical data, based on laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses of obsidian artifacts associated with discrete house floors, support this basic settlement model, but reveal new detail in how people moved across the landscape and accessed, extracted, reduced and used obsidian resources.