Settlement patterns in Judea and Samaria |
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| Authors: | D Grossman |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geogr., Bar-Ilan University, IL-52 100 Ramat-Gan, Israel |
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| Abstract: | The settlement patterns of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) reflect the physical and cultural makeup of the area. Physical factors are most important in conditioning the layout and size of settlements. The dominance of fairly uniform Arab population reduces, to some extent, the significance of the cultural factor for the purpose of differentiating patterns, but recent Jewish settlement has introduced distinct new forms. The patterns can also be related to the age of the settlement. This applies to the Arab communities and not only to the Jewish ones. It is shown that patterns can be identified and explained by the intersection of the time factor and a certain langscape factor. Nine different patterns (two Jewish, six Arab and one mixed) are identified and explained.This article is the outgrowth of research which was supported by the Bar-Ilan University Research Authority and the Moskowitz Cathedra for Research on the Land of Israel. |
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