Town, human settlement that is smaller than a city but bigger than a village. The word town comes from the Old English tūn, which had a variety of meanings, among them “enclosure” and “group of houses.” A town can be categorized according to its fun
Johann Heinrich von Thünen was a German agriculturalist best known for his work on the relationship between the costs of commodity transportation and the location of production. In 1810 Thünen began gathering data for the book for which he is remembere
Through an exploration of the discourses of the Urban Villages Forum and the Congress for the New Urbanism and three concrete manifestations in Britain, Canada and New Zealand, this paper examines the implications of the production of urban form in the communication of meanings and social relations...
The 30-acre site plan, developed by lead architect and strategic planner Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, centers around a walkable community anchored by the train station. It will prioritize the needs of residents and businesses and connect with the surrounding neighborhoods and city, while ...
Urbanism uses location data from displaced populations to chart routes from Colombia's countryside to its urban centers. These routes can be enriched with municipal location data and population demographics provided from NASA satellite imagery and the Colombian National Department of Statistics respectively...
The objective of the present, essentially descriptive and interpretation-based paper is to report two new examples of artificial objects with geoheritage meaning from Russia. These have been “discovered” in the course of the authors’ trips. Although this country boasts an outstanding richness of ...
By 2008, the plan called for razing four tumbledown apartment complexes in the city and building bigger, modern developments in line with the New Urbanism concept, featuring open, walkable green spaces and an array of amenities. Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 8 July 2017 Then there is the mat...
Based on the main driving force of plate motion (the slab pull force generated by the descent of the oceanic plate in subduction zones) and the three primary mechanisms for magma generation (adding fluid, increasing temperature, and decreasing pressure), the continent-continent collisional process ...
Based on the main driving force of plate motion (the slab pull force generated by the descent of the oceanic plate in subduction zones) and the three primary mechanisms for magma generation (adding fluid, increasing temperature, and decreasing pressure), the continent-continent collisional process ...
Tell Abu Hafur ‘East’, Tell Arbid (Northeastern Syria), and Nemrik (Northern Iraq) as Examples of Small-Scale Rural Settlements in Upper Mesopotamia in the Mittani Period was published in The Archaeology of Political Spaces on page 43.