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.
Since unplanned expansion of human settlements has occurred in rural areas, there is a greatly increased risk of loss of life and property due to the wild fires (Keeley 2002) as in 2007 where 63 lives were lost and 1,500 houses burnt to ashes.
The stormy trail to yesterday's tentative settlement has occurred during unprecedented upheaval at Coke.
It is possible that the Marquesas were settled as early as the 2nd century bce, rather than 300 ce, a date at which settlements may have occurred in Hawaii.
Relative displacements between grout and steel have been observed in grouted connections used for offshore wind turbine substructures, which appear to be linked to the unexpected settlements that have occurred in some offshore wind farms.
The predicted results suggest that without proper treatment, more serious settlement would have occurred, which is unacceptable in engineering terms.
And the paper on wind patterns presents "a very important result and has implications not only for when settlement might have occurred, but also for return voyaging [of explorers] to tropical Polynesia," says Bruce McFadgen, an archaeologist at Victoria University of Wellington.
Massive environmental changes have occurred since European settlement of Australia more than 200 years ago.
Authors recognise the confusing nature of the term 'post-conflict' as violent conflict continues to play a role after conflict settlements (that is, peace or ceasefire agreements) have occurred.
Assessing the fairness of settlements is a fundamentally difficult task, because settlement forecloses the determination of litigants' entitlements that would have occurred at trial.
