The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521038102)

In this study Roland Fletcher argues that the built environment becomes a constraint on long-term settlement development. He reviews worldwide settlement growth over the past 15,000 years in the light of the limits imposed by buildings, layouts and forms of communication, and concludes with a major discussion of the great transformations of human settlements--from mobile to sedentary, sedentary to urban, and urban to industrial. This ambitious contribution to archaeological theory has implications for the future of urban settlement.

Author: Roland Fletcher
ISBN-10: 0521038103
ISBN-13: 9780521038102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2007
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.64d