Northern Samaria: A Process‐Pattern Analysis of Rural Settlement
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- 28 June 1982
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
- Vol. 26 (2) , 110-127
Abstract
In northern Samaria, Arab settlement has expanded by a process of colonization from parent villages during the past century. The changes in settlement patterns were analysed and the relative tendencies for randomness, regularity, and clustering were then estimated by variance/mean ratios, to test whether the settlement process can be explained by Hudson's three‐stage model for rural settlement. No definite answer could be given, because the effects of soils and terrain were dominant in all parts of the area, but the finding that the settlements tend to be grouped even in the initial stage suggests that Hudson's theory is inadequate.Au nord de la Samarie, la colonisation Arabe s'est étendue par un processus de colonisation de villages parents pendant le dernier siècle. Les changements dans les forms de colonisations ont été analysés et les tendances relatives pour caractère de regularité, caractère à l'aléatoire, et caractère d'accumulation ont allors été estimées par proportions de variation/moyenne, pour examiner si le processus de colonisation par trois phases de Hudson peut être expliqué pour le modèle de colonisation rurale. Une réponse définitive n'a pas pu être donnée parce que les effets de sol et reliefs étaient dominants dans toutes les parties des environs, mais le résultat que les colonisations ont tendance de se grouper même dans la phase initiative suggère que la théorie de Hudson est inadéquate.Keywords
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