The essay is concerned with how immigrants in rural Hong Kong settle as squatters on rented fields and hill sides, Informants refer their unwillingness to move into the villages to strategic interests ...

The Latin American Research Review (LARR) publishes original research in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/Latino studies. Founded in 1965, LARR publishes articles in the humanities and social ...

Why do Vermonters live where they do? Historically, settlement patterns have been shaped by natural resources and the industries that spring up around them. Workers flocked to Barre for its granite; ...

Currently, more than half of the world’s population are urban dwellers and this number is still rapidly increasing. Since settlements - and urban areas in particular - represent the centers of human ...

Flood controlling mechanisms are key actions and survival strategies for resilience building in fragile rural communities with weak soils, poor drainage systems and waterways. During the current rainy ...

Restricting the number of houses in rural Ireland to those that exist at the moment would "guarantee a rapid decline in population" in those areas of up to 20 per cent in as many years, Mr Eamon ...

AMMAN — During 200 years of Crusades in the Levant, many fortifications were built as the first landscapes of that historical period. However, European settlers lived in smaller communities in the ...

Sir, – I commend Seán Byrne’s piece on the hidden costs of Ireland’s widely dispersed settlement patterns (Opinion, May 28th… Sir, – I commend Seán Byrne’s piece on the hidden costs of Ireland’s ...