The green space as a driver of sustainability in Post-Socialist urban areas: the case of Almaty City (Kazakhstan) by Alla Pakina, Aiman Batkalova

“…The spatial aspects of the urban green spaces in the post-socialist cities are a point of special interest due to their specific settlement structures and historical heritage. …”
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A child, twelve goats, three sheep, a cow, and a horse by František Trampota, Jarmila Bíšková, Jiří Kala, Petr Kos, Miriam Nývltová Fišáková, David Parma

“…In addition to anthropological, zooarchaeological, and taphonomic analyses, the find was assessed within the larger spatial context of the Morava River basin, where new, specific settlement patterns, diverse burial practices, and three distinct pottery styles (Jevišovice, Bošáca, and Globular Amphora) emerged. …”
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Network of Settlements in Novosibirsk District in 1920s: Population, Structure and Development Features by A. I. Tatarnikova

“…A new trend has been noted in transforming rural settlements into urban ones, expressed in a refusal to make purely administrative decisions on this issue in favor of taking into account the sequential evolution of a specific settlement.…”
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From Dispersed Urban Areas to Territories- in-between by Alexander Wandl

“…Moreover, evidence points in the direction that large amounts of dispersed urban development ask for different planning instruments which reflect the complexity and network structure of theses specific settlement patterns. At the turn of the millennium and across Europe, concepts describing dispersed urban areas, like Zwischenstadt, città diffusa or tussenland gained some attention. …”
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Unequal relational travel patterns of long-distance rail trips between different levels of settlement hierarchies – Case study from Hungary by Vilmos Oszter, István Kövesdi, László Sipos

“…Origin and Destination (OD) trip settlements were classified into specific settlement hierarchy groups and by the novel Sum of Ranking Differences (SRD) algorithm and ANOVA, the multiple surveyed socio-economic trip characteristics were grouped.The results confirm that a higher level of settlement network hierarchies generates overall more though not necessarily more frequent long-distance trips, which are not equal to all sub-categories. …”
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Territories -in- between by Alexander Wandl

“…The typology presented in this paper shows that mixed-use in TiB could be related to specific settlement characteristics. The characteristics investigated were: grain, density, permeability, centrality and closeness to transit stations and motorway entries. …”
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