ON A THEORY FOR RURAL SETTLEMENT

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Notes

1 J. C. Hudson, “A Location Theory for Rural Settlement,”Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 59 (1969), pp. 365 81.

2 A map and description of a Chinese agricultural settlement pattern appears in J. W. Alexander, Economic Geography (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1963), pp. 57–58. Further data on this pattern can be found in S. D. Gamble, “Four Hundred Chinese Farms,”Far Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 4 (1945), pp. 341 66. Both authors make it clear that the pattern is made up of nucleated farm settlements.

3 B. P. Birch, “The Measurement of Dispersed patterns of Settlement,”Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Vol. 58 (1967), pp. 68 75.

4 E. Bylund, “Theoretical Considerations Regarding the Distribution of Settlement in Inner Northern Sweden,”Geografiska Annaler, Vol. 62 (1960), pp. 225 31.

5 One estimate in Minnesota suggested that as much as seventy-three percent of the farmer's working time was spent in the farmstead. S. B. Cleland, Farmstead Planning. Agricultural Extension Service Folder 135 (Minneapolis: Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1945).

6 A contemporary account complained that southern Indiana settlers on the frontier located their houses “the back side of the fields, and the fields frequently in the back side of their farms.” R. L. Power, Planting Corn Belt Culture, Publication 17 (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1953), p. 102.

7 K. A. Kershaw, “Pattern in Vegetation and its Causality,”Ecology, Vol. 44 (1963), pp. 377 88.

8 Bylund, op. cit., footnote 4, pp. 225–31.