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| A Traditional building material made of hard oven-baked, or sun-baked blocks of mud shaped into standard sizes. |
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| A period in which image took precedence over practicality. |
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| Smallest clusters of purposely grouped, hoses and nonresidential buildings. |
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| The spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread. |
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| A region in which the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area. |
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| A related influence on patterns of settlement and land use |
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| Traditional dwelling built using poles and sticks that are woven tightly together and then plastered with mud. |
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| A compact, closely packed settlement (usually a hamlet or larger village) sharply demarcated from adjoining farmlands. |
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| Adopted along the eastern seaboard, in which natural features were used to demarcate irregular parcels of land. |
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| A settlement in which the majority of the population was involved in primary activities and in which there was relatively little investment in public infrastructure. |
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| A mode of distinguishing things or arrangements based on the purposes of activities to which they are devoted. |
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| Functional differentiation |
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| Also called the public land survey, the system was used by the U.S. Land Office Survey to parcel land west of the Appalachian Mountains. This system divides land into a series of rectangular parcel. |
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| System where the eldest son in a family-or, in exceptional cases, daughter- inherits all of a dying parent's land. |
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| Characterized by a much lower density of population and the wide spacing of individual homesteads(especially in rural North America) |
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| System that divided land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals. It reflects a particular approach to surveying that was common in French America. |
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| A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson designed to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior. |
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| Township-and-range system |
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| A complex and fascinating field. |
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